Trangie residents will be thrilled to know the new fuel facility is on track to be opened by the end of April. Not only that, there are plenty of jobs on offer for locals from new owners, Inland Petroleum.

Harry Mooring, Business Development & Sales Manager for Inland Petroleum, was excited to announce that site construction has started "big time".

"We will be well and truly done by the end of April, although initially it will be a self-serve set up with bowsers and a card machine," he said. "The shop facility will then be built but we are advertising for staff now so we are ready to go."

Jobs on offer include console operators, cooks and managers.

"There are plenty of job opportunities for locals and we really want to hire people in the towns we service," Mr Mooring said. "Inland Petroleum have already re-employed the people who were at the Ampol facility when it shut in December because we really want to see local people staying in the region."

Besides Trangie, Inland Petroleum owns several fuel stations across the Western Plains area including facilities at Gilgandra, Narromine, Cobar and Condobolin and will soon be operating in Coonamble as well.

All up they employ 192 people in maintenance and logistics.

Born and raised on the Western Plains, Mr Mooring himself is one such local employed by Inland Petroleum.

"I grew up on a family farm near Louth," he said. "When I was older I moved to Dubbo and now have worked for Inland Petroleum for five years."

Mr Mooring said he regularly spoke to customers in the area and knew most of them personally.

"We can chat about the local footy teams as well as what fuel they want." he said.

Mr Mooring pointed out that Inland Petroleum were not about taking over from other local businesses in Trangie, but rather working with them.

"I've spoken to the café owners in Trangie and we're certainly not trying to take away from their business with the shop side of the fuel station, rather we will be the place to come late at night and other times like that."

"As a local person myself, I don’t like to see people leaving our small towns so I encourage locals to apply for the positions we have available. We generally offer flexible shifts and find positions most suitable to those who apply," he said.

Mr Mooring said the best place to check out the available positions was on seek.com.au.