Total 10 mechanical engineer job vacancies in Australia

Viva Energy’s Geelong Refinery employs around 700 people and supplies over 50 percent of Victoria’s and 10 percent of Australia’s fuel.

The refinery can process up to 120,000 barrels of oil per day, manufacturing petrol, diesel, LPG, jet fuel, avgas, bitumen, specialty solvents for a wide range of industries.  We now have a great opportunity for a Mechanical Asset Engineer to join the team.

In this role you will collaborate across our Maintenance, Operations and Asset teams to ensure compliance of our equipment in line with Australian, Industry and Site Standards, Procedures, and Government Regulations.  You will directly ensure compliance of static mechanical equipment (pressure vessel, exchangers, piping etc.,) to ensure safe and efficient engineering solutions are maintained in a cost-effective manner to allow our License to Operate.

You will be key in engaging and collaborating with stakeholders across the refinery, providing maintenance, operating, and engineering advice, participating, and contributing to site shut down / turn around activities.

This position is integral to the participation in reliability investigations including root cause analysis and support efforts to improve efficiency of the maintenance process, ensuring work is prioritised to support plant reliability.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Asset Manager, you will provide subject matter expertise (SME) to:

• Ensure all activities are conducted and managed in accordance with agreed Health, Safety and Environment practices and procedures.
• Manage the development and execution of the 14-day area maintenance plan.
• Assists in the development of the Area annual PM plan.
• Ensure compliance to established planning and scheduling procedures.
• Develop and coordinate the execution of minor shutdowns and major equipment overhauls.
• Coordinate and provide technical support for Major Turnarounds events.
• Support Area Maintenance Manager in the development and implementation of improvement initiatives, including business plans, KPI’s, budget development and cost tracking.
• Provide leadership and technical support for trade teams.
• Be the point of contact for technical issues of area assets including cost/benefit decisions on repair methods.
• Develop and implement plant changes in accordance with ‘Management of Change’ procedures.
• Provide planning, coordination and technical support for external vendors and contractors for equipment replacement or rectification.
• Stay current with regulations, industry standards, and technology and industry developments.

The purpose of this role is to develop safe, effective and efficient tank repair, modification and construction methods whilst ensuring reliable availability storage tanks across all areas of the refinery.

• Recommend tank repair, modification and construction methods in line with applicable statutory, industry and company requirements to maintain long-term tank integrity and function. Base case for refinery bulk storage assets is 20yr fit-for-service following out-of-service inspection.
• Develop Management of Change (MOC) proposals and supporting documentation for non-routine tank repair methodologies and proposed tank design modifications.
• Collaborate with the refinery integrity team, to forecast and optimise a risk-based tankage inspection and outage program on a 12 monthly and 10 year rolling schedule.
• Actively contribute to the development of the annual Tank Maintenance plan, tank schedules and resource and cost estimates.
• Maintain relevant tank repair records and history.
• Able to work within a team as well as self-motivated to achieve asset integrity and business goals.
• Be able to collaborate with a wide range of teams to ensure the safe, efficient and effective delivery of tank maintenance scopes.
• Actively participate in the Asset Integrity Continuous Improvement program.

Safety

• Ensure all activities are conducted and managed in accordance with AERO principles and agreed HSSE practices and procedure as outlined in the Geelong Refinery Management System.
• Safety of proposed plant changes for corrosion management in all aspects (i.e. materials selection, operational control and feed changes).
• Shared responsibility for incident investigation following an incident.

As an Instrument and Electrical Asset Engineer working within the Reliability team at the Geelong Refinery, you will directly support our Asset teams as the first port of call for Instrument and Electrical Engineering support. You will respond to equipment breakdown with our maintenance team and provide condition based repair and replacement scopes. In addition, you’ll provide technical assistance to our Asset teams to:

• Troubleshoot instrument and electrical issues.
• Investigate incidents using RCA and other engineering techniques.
• Manage compliance to our instrument and electrical safeguarding testing regimes.
• Lead small plant changes and projects and represent the Asset team as a technical stakeholder on large projects.
• Develop and execute maintenance intervention and Turnaround scopes.

As the Cloud Engineer your role is to primarily support the Viva Cloud environment. The role will cover various expertise in Azure, around architecture, building, optimisation, automation, altering, billing, and more.

You will be responsible for deployment of product releases in accordance with defined change management processes and you will be expected to identify and implement operational improvements making use of Cloud Systems for these processes.

At Viva Energy we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about the opportunity but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we still encourage you to apply. Your skills and experience may just be the right match for this role or other opportunities!

The Viva Energy Technical Team works closely with Sales and Marketing within the business to provide technical advice, and deliver value added services for our fuels and lubricants customers. These services aim to uncover cost saving opportunities, reduce downtime, increase reliability and deliver new technologies and solutions to our customer base. The Commercial Product Support Engineering Graduate would have the opportunity to develop valuable skills and knowledge in the following areas: 

•  Provide technical support and solutions to our fuels and lubricants customers in the oil & gas and mining sectors, as well as with industrial, paper, power and manufacturing customers
• Resolve lubrication and equipment issues and help ensure optimisation of customer reliability programs
• Be at the forefront of new technologies and deliver best practice in lubrication solutions 
• Support the team in providing a range of online, office and field based technical support that is backed by Shell Global Solutions experts
• Learn from a team with over 463 years of cumulative fuels and lubricant experience 

Viva Energy has an amazing opportunity for a Graduate to join our Supply Chain, Product Quality Team. In this role you will embark on an exciting journey maintaining fuel product quality from the refinery gate, through distribution to customers and beyond to the customer tank. As part of the graduate experience, you will have an opportunity to:   

• Learn about and support the team on Product Quality (PQ) Standards, Manuals and Procedures 
• Record, investigate, and action PQ incidents to ensure that they are managed in accordance with standards
• Support fuels marketing initiatives and product launches and learn about local interfaces across Engineering, Operational and Sales and Marketing teams
• Learn about adequate processes to assure the quality of the bio components, renewable fuels, alternative fuels, and the biofuels in supply chain
   

Join a team of engineers delivering capital projects and asset management services in a dynamic operational environment. 
Some of the skills you will develop include but is not limited to the following:

• Project Management
• Construction Management
• Full Lifecycle Asset Management
• Process and Personal Safety Management
• Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration
   

Viva’s Geelong Refinery converts crude oil into transport fuels, solvents, plastic and bitumen playing a key role in transitioning to sustainable energy solutions. You will work across our Geelong Refinery and join our Reliability, Maintenance and Operations teams that will enable you to acquire valuable skills and experience in the following areas:

• Pumps, industrial gearboxes, cooling fans, motors, heat exchangers, valves, steam turbines, pressure vessels and process piping
• Analysis of reciprocating and turbo compressor performance and health including scoping of repairs and improvements
• Providing guidance and technical advice to the maintenance and operations departments
• Assess asset end of life and recommend appropriate replacements, options for continued service or priority of asset repair in accordance with local standards and service conditions
• Repair scoping, technical guidance, and identification of improvements for equipment breakdowns and during maintenance interventions
• Liaising with global original equipment manufacturers and engineering consultants
• Oil refining processes and how mechanical equipment contributes to safe and reliable operations
• Heavy industry maintenance, safety systems, management of change and reduction of down time methods in general

Viva’s Geelong Refinery converts crude oil into transport fuels, solvents, plastic and bitumen, playing a key role in transitioning to sustainable energy solutions. You will work across our Geelong Refinery and join our Reliability, Maintenance and Operations teams that will enable you to acquire valuable skills and experience in the following areas: 

• HV/LV Motors, Power generation and distribution
• Field instrumentation: Field transducers and control valves
• Industrial Automation:  Programmable Logic Controllers, microcontrollers, Safety Systems and Distributed Control Systems
• Industrial Cyber Security for IACS threat identification, risk assessment and countermeasures
• Process Control and Analytics
• Telecommunications. Network switches, telemetry, and fibre optics  
• Regulatory Control Programming and system configuration/design
• Risk management: hazard identification, engineering controls and mitigations
• Communication with stakeholders and coordination of field crews
• Problem solving and troubleshooting

About the role:

You will perform a key role in influencing, guiding and improving the team's efficiency, independence and quality using modern Agile thinking and practices.  This role is the SME at our Refinery and manages a significant portion of infrastructure support and architecture, including:

Operational Excellence

• Deliver on required service levels in line with platform criticality and impact assessment per ITIL principles as platform technical owner. 
• Maintain the application lifecycle through development/deployment, upgrades and decommissioning of enterprise manufacturing platforms in line with business strategy and vendor roadmaps. 
• Proactive monitoring, troubleshooting and triaging system incidents and service requests  
• Maintain relationships with application vendors, business platform owners and end users to resolve incidents and tickets proactively. 
• After hours on-call support required for Business Critical Situations  
• Maintain knowledge bases and documentation related to the supported platforms through platform changes and enhancements. 
• Continual process and Service Improvement – Identify areas of opportunity and automation by analyzing systems, requests and incident data and recommend improvements to the environment and processes. 

Agile Delivery 

• Deliver process improvement and re-engineering initiatives as a key technical resource in line with DevOps and Software Development Lifecycle principles (SDLC). 
• Deliver within an agile framework with sprint cadences focused on highest value as an active member of a cross functional team. 
• Prepare and document requirements and design specifications, test plans and as- built artifacts for business solutions that are commissioned. 
• Responsible for design, build, test and support relating to the platform (within a 24x7 environment depending on the business criticality of each platform) 
• Deliver technical components which will contribute to large multi-stream programmes in this complex, multi-stakeholder, matrix managed environment. 
• Identify options for potential solutions and assessing them for both technical and business suitability for IT projects  
• Provide technical and content support to support training requirements on the platforms.

Quality and Cyber Risk 

• Work in collaboration with the cyber security team to understand requirements and deliver the of Cyber Security Strategy in Tech Apps platforms at the Energy Hub including remediation of platform gaps
• Maintain the information security baseline for the platforms and ensure any gaps are remediated in line with expectations including patching, life cycle management, disaster recovery, vulnerability remediation, identity and access management, data protection and other control functions. 
• Define and execute controls which improve the reliability and resilience across supported platforms. Look for ongoing improvement opportunities in these controls. 
• Support information risk management assessment and internal/external audits for demonstrating compliance. 
• Maintain license compliance across supported platforms