Job Description

As the Safety & Hygiene Superintendent, you will provide strategic leadership across all safety and industrial hygiene functions at our Lytton Refinery.

You’ll drive the implementation and continuous improvement of site-wide safety standards and systems, ensuring full alignment with regulatory requirements and organizational objectives.

This is a key role in shaping a proactive safety culture embedding human factors principles, critical risk management, and behavioural change initiatives across the site.

Your expertise will help foster a safe, compliant, and high-performing workplace where people and performance thrive.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the development, implementation, and governance of site-wide safety and hygiene standards, ensuring continuous improvement and compliance with ISO 45001.
- Provide expert guidance and direction to a team of Safety and Hygiene Specialists, driving alignment with operational and regulatory requirements.
- Govern incident investigation processes, ensuring robust root cause analysis and the effective implementation of corrective actions.
- Oversee and deliver annual safety and hygiene programs, including critical risk management, system assurance, contractor safety management, hygiene monitoring, and health risk assessment updates.
- Drive the long‑term integration of the Safety Culture Model and Human Factors frameworks to elevate safety maturity and operational resilience.

Qualifications

You are a seasoned HSE professional with expertise in managing safety and hygiene functions in high‑risk, heavy industrial environments.

You will bring a strategic mindset, strong leadership capability, and the ability to influence cultural and behavioural change at all organisational levels and thrive in a complex operational setting. Developing your direct reports is a passion for you.

Your focus on proactive safety, human factors integration, and operational excellence will set you apart as a trusted advisor and leader.

To succeed in this role, you will bring:





- Extensive experience in high-risk, heavy industrial sectors such as oil & gas, minerals processing, or power generation.
- Proven leadership in managing and developing WHS and Industrial Hygiene teams, including strategic planning and capability development.
- Strong knowledge of ISO 45001, regulatory frameworks, and compliance management within complex industrial operations.
- Demonstrated success in implementing safety culture and human factors models to drive proactive safety behaviours.
- Tertiary qualifications in Work Health and Safety, Occupational Hygiene, or a related discipline, with a commitment to ongoing professional development.

Additional Information

- Our total remuneration is competitive. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for two privately used cars
- We are flexible. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value.
- Remote Working: Support for up to 3 months remote international working (conditional to 5 days paid leave for every 30 days of remote work).
- We value recognition. We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do outstanding work and demonstrate our capabilities and values.
- Career development and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions.
- Paid Parental Leave - up to 12 weeks paid Parental leave, and up to a year off (unpaid). In addition to the 12 months of unpaid parental leave, employees may apply for a further 12 months of unpaid parental leave (a total of 24 months for each birth)
- BabyCare Package – financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work.
- Need some wheels? Novated Lease options are available.
- Invest in your future – with the Employee Share Scheme
- Leave Options – Up to 6 weeks annual leave and additional Wellbeing leave days.
- Care for your Community. Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundatio

📌 SAFETY & HYGIENE SUPERINTENDENT (Australia)
🏢 Ampol
📍 Australia