Responsibilities
- Operational Oversight: Manage and oversee all refinery operations during the assigned shift, ensuring continuous, efficient, and safe plant performance.
- Safety Compliance: Enforce strict adherence to all safety protocols, procedures, and regulatory requirements, identifying and addressing potential safety hazards. Perform routine assessments on field work to identify successes and opportunities for improvement.
- Team Leadership: Lead by example; foster a culture of teamwork, accountability and continuous improvement; guide and mentor the operations team; provide clear instruction and feedback.
- Emergency Response: Lead the response to any operational issues or emergencies, coordinating with relevant teams to resolve incidents quickly and safely.
- Communication: Maintain effective communication with other departments, including Area 1 Operations, maintenance, engineering, and senior management, to ensure smooth operations.
- Monitoring and Reporting: Regularly monitor plant performance, identify inefficiencies or issues, and provide detailed shift reports and updates to management.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all operations comply with environmental, health, and safety regulations, and maintain accurate records for audits and inspections.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement best practices to enhance refinery performance and safety.
- Training: Collaborate with the Training Manager to develop crew training plans that align with the overall Operations training strategy.
- Shift Handover: Conduct thorough shift handovers, ensuring that the incoming supervisor is fully briefed on ongoing operations, issues, and priorities.
- Optimization: Implements the weekly operating plan for plant throughput, yield, and product quality specifications.
- Collective Agreement: Manages adherence to the collective agreement, addresses grievances, oversees progressive discipline, develops labor schedules, and approves payroll entries.
Requirements
- Valid 3rd Class Power Engineering Certificate or a Bachelor’s Degree in chemical engineering or mechanical engineering.
- Valid Class 5 driver’s license.
- A minimum of 5-10 years of experience in refinery operations or a similar industrial setting.
- Proven experience in a supervisory or management role, preferably in a refinery or chemical processing environment.
- Experience working within the framework of collective bargaining agreements.
- Strong decision-making abilities, particularly under pressure or in emergency situations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for clear reporting and coordination with different departments.
Benefits
- Competitive Benefits. Meaningful Extras. Unmatched Value.
- A place where you can take your career in the direction you want to grow and go
Work Arrangement
On-site
Additional Information
- Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the country in which they applied.
- Final candidates for this position will be required to undergo a confidential pre-employment background check, including but not limited to educational, criminal, credit, drug and alcohol, and/or fitness for duty testing.