A Day in the Life at Viva Energy Australia

A day in life involves a busy work schedule focused on cyber safety, meetings, and skill development, with personal time in the morning and evening to unwind and care for a puppy.

As a retail engineer, I design Shell branded service stations when we need to do major works. I enjoy the flexibility of working from home most of the time, while also being able to get out to site and see the service stations we design and build.

Order new merchandise for an upcoming expo. Head to the marketing storeroom to pull together any leftover show bags and our media kit. Yay – the first drafts of a recent photo/film shoot have come through. Time to review the material, collate the team’s feedback and annotate the visuals. Now back to that copywriting. Done - off to legal for review. 

I begin to troubleshoot any issues I’ve found on the unit, and try to find the cause and how to fix it. If it’s a quiet day and there’s no pressing issues, I’ll work on any upcoming projects I have. Often during this time I may have additional meetings throughout the day.

Focus on ensuring all immediate issues are under control by the end of the day, whilst checking in and gathering information from team members that may affect how I go about actioning various tasks. This will help me put together a monthly presentation of how the team has performed in optimising import cargoes into the country and issues that may have been faced.

Every day is completely different. It can be back to back meetings or time for me to work on the different projects and action items I am involved with.