Safety & Hygiene Superintendent

Safety & Hygiene Superintendent About Ampol: Our company has always been about more than fuel. Fuel may be the foundation of our business, but our motivation and purpose come from the people, businesses, industries, and communities we engage with. From our origins until today, we’ve always been inspired by the role we can play in people’s lives – to keep them moving, to make journeys happen. Here at Ampol, we are proud of our heritage as Australia’s only owned fuel brand. For over 100 years we have supported Australians to travel far and wide, and we’ll be here for 100 more powering better journeys for today and tomorrow. About the role: 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. About You 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. 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 great 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 Foundation partners. We’re an equal opportunity workplace. We not only embrace diversity and inclusion; we celebrate what makes you unique. We welcome applications from people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and diverse sexualities and genders (including if you identify as transgender). We also highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply for roles with Ampol. Want to take your career to the next level? Apply today. Applications close on 15 December 2025 Seniority level: Mid-Senior level Employment type: Full-time Job function: Other Industries: Oil and Gas #J-18808-Ljbffr