Astron Energy Vacancies

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Senior Corporate Development Specialist

The Senior Corporate Development Specialist is the primary focal point for the evaluation of refinery and infrastructure growth projects. Responsible for developing and maintaining complex financial models to evaluate strategic investments, acquisitions, and growth opportunities, providing analytical insights to support corporate development decisions and value creation.

Strategic Implementation:

• Translate strategy into operational initiatives with measurable business outcomes and targets.
• Facilitate the development of best practice in operations and service excellence.

Operational Efficiency:

EVCO

• Evaluation and delivery of major growth and commercial projects including all associated Management of Change (MOC).

• Infrastructure Focal Point: Serve as the primary focal point for the evaluation of refinery and infrastructure growth projects. Lead post-investment performance evaluations and audits to ensure ROI.
• Network Efficiency: Establish evaluation methodologies and KPIs to monitor the performance of the supply and logistics network. Identify opportunities to improve “terminal cost-to-serve” through multi-point collection and incremental business switching.
• Competitive Intelligence: Maintain a comprehensive database of competitor terminals and cost-to-serve activities to inform the broader Pricing and Marketing strategy.
• Regulatory Compliance: Manage the regulatory reporting of uncommitted capacity at terminals as per prevailing legislation.

Broader Business Development & Growth

• Non-Traditional Revenue: Identify and build business cases for diversified revenue streams outside of core fuel products (e.g., EV charging infrastructure, hydrogen initiatives, or renewable energy partnerships).
• Market Entry & M&A: Coordinate the EVCO input for macro-market developments, including deregulation, competitor M&A activity, and decarbonization strategies.
• Asset Monetization: Evaluate underutilized assets or land for alternative commercial use, including leasing, divestment, or third-party infrastructure integration.

Team Effectiveness

• Live the Company values and work effectively as an active and contributing member to achieve team goals.
•  Implement continuous improvement methodologies across the function, including the coaching and mentoring of teams to drive business excellence.

Financial Management:

• Manage budgets and monitor expenses ensuring expenditure is within approved budgets.

Safety, Health, Quality and Environment Compliance:

• Ensure compliance with all Safety, Health, Environmental and all other applicable regulatory statutes, and all other safety and quality processes for the area of responsibility/work.

Stakeholder Relationship Management:

•     Identify, build, and nurture trust and collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Key internal stakeholders:

•    ExCo; EXCO; Key Partners

Information sharing, decision making, reporting and planning

Implementation of projects and results tracking

Support key stakeholders

Key external stakeholders:

•    Glencore

Align on strategy, key initiatives, and performance outcomes

Best practice engagements

Professional Qualification and Certifications:

• Degree in Business-related activity (e.g., BCom, Finance, Economics) 
• Master’s degree in business administration (MBA) is preferred

Work Experience:

• 3+ years in Leadership role in Strategy / Investment Appraisal and Pricing role
• 5+ years’ experience of working in Integrated Downstream Oil with significant exposure to and demonstrable understanding of Supply / Operations / Logistics / Trading or related value drivers and KPIs
• Track record of delivery in commercial optimisation, project implementation and process improvement

Knowledge and skills:

• A broad and well-recognized understanding of value chain optimisation, from crude selection and refinery constraints to product supply, logistics, and marketing.
• Understanding of the Southern African oil supply, demand and logistics region; the competitors active in the market.
• Advanced skills in financial evaluation, opportunity modelling, and the ability to interpret complex P&L drivers.
• A broad and well recognised understanding of fuels value chain optimisation, from crude selection to product supply, logistics and marketing.
• An understanding of Refinery and Logistics constraints.
• Strong understanding of the organization’s business strategy and goals
• Strong analytical skills and able to lead cross-functional groups in the delivery of commercial projects
• Proven critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making capabilities
• Proven ability to identify “white space” opportunities and translate them into actionable business models.
• Experience in leading “Management of Change” (MOC) processes for large-scale technical or commercial transitions.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex commercial cases to executive leadership. Good personal impact and networking abilities

Application deadline:09 April 2026

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Stock Controller Analyst – LMP

The Stock Controller is responsible for ensuring the accurate, complete and timely processing of Inventory losses and gains in SAP and validations of movements posted by the plant. These stock movements include production order processing, goods receipts, product disposal and transfers to subcontracting vendors and 3rd party locations. The Stock Controller provides the lubricant plants with accounting and SAP guidance and training and is also responsible for the accurate and complete reporting of loss/Gain balances to various stakeholders on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.

Activities include but not limited to

• Oversee inventory management and stock reconciliation at the Lubricants Manufacturing Plant in Durban.
• Manage inventory across all third-party warehouses located in Durban, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg, and Bloemfontein.
• Coordinate and supervise stock levels, inventories, and reconciliations for all third-party suppliers, including consignment and subcontracting stock locations.
• Responsible for inventory management and reconciliation for all depots as well as consignment stock locations.
• Provide accounting and SAP guidance including training to business personnel

• Reconcile all stock movements, investigate discrepancies, and ensure that any losses or gains are identified and reported to the appropriate personnel for correction at the plant.
• Assist various functional units in correcting stock movements, including processing write-ins and write-offs as needed.
• Provide training and refresher sessions on stock control techniques and management across various locations.
• Develop stock control reports for functional heads to reduce errors in stock processing transactions
• Collaborates and works closely with Lubricants Manufacturing Plant (LMP) & 3rd Party Vendors to strengthen inventory controls, mitigate control gaps and recommend process improvements Area and Regional Level within the required timelines set for the respective levels.

Stock Counts and Physical Inventory Management

• Schedule and coordinate physical stock counts at all locations, including the Manufacturing Plant and secondary warehouses.
• Oversee pre-stock count preparations and post-stock count activities.
• Coordinate the input of physical stock levels into SAP.
• Produce variance reports with commentary and submit it to relevant personnel.
• Post final physical stock levels in the system.
• Provide regular stock control reports (losses, gains, and inventory), at least monthly.

Systems & Procedures

• Maintain written stock control procedures to ensure consistency and accuracy across the stock system.
• Analyze physical processes in the plant and promote improvements to enhance stock control.
• Identify necessary changes in SAP and collaborate with IT for implementation.
• Conduct internal audits to ensure compliance with critical stock control activities and recommend corrective actions when required.

Operational Excellence & Compliance

• Adhere to and ensure compliance with all operational excellence standards and expectations.
• Utilize the Loss Prevention System (LPS) to understand and address stock variances, driving effective and sustainable solutions.
• Perform regular loss prevention observations and address Near Loss/Loss Incidents.
• Prepare for all audits/assessments.
• Develop and deliver timely, periodic reports for various management levels to highlight and monitor issues.
• Maintain close communication with Production and Logistics Supervisors, providing recommendations for improvement in stock control performance.
• Ensure all processes are documented, recorded, and controlled in accordance with ISO 9001 management systems.

• Create connections with people that add value to the business.
• Know what needs to be achieved and motivate others to contribute their best.

Professional Qualification and Certifications:

• Tertiary qualifications (Commerce, Accounting, Finance, Supply Chain)

Work Experience:

• Sound experience with stock/inventory controlling, management
• Working knowledge of reporting tools (SAP, MS applications)
• Good understanding of the lubricants business
• Ability to work with large data sets
• Ability to produce high quality presentations

Knowledge and skills:

• Strong financial acumens, Business skills
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Stock Controlling and Management
• Planning and Aligning
• Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Results driven

Application deadline:06 April 2026

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Specialist – Customer Service

Responsible for inbound telephonic communication with client base.Ensures the quality of service exceeds customer expectations and establishes constructive relationships with client base. Utilises IT system accurately and ensures that all queries are answered effectively. Refers calls to appropriate departments only if unable to solve query appropriately. Provides accurate product information to clients in line with standards and protocols.

Critical primary point of contact for Retail, C&I and Lubricant account and customers of South Africa and Botswana. Accepts immediate ownership of inquiries and assumes advocacy role in resolving order to cash inquiries and concerns. Accountable for timely resolution of issues within service level agreements and compliance parameters. Responsible for processing refines and lubricant orders received through phone, and email accurately and on a timely manner. Works with the different business units including but not limited to Retail, C&I, Lubricants, Pricing, Credits and Logistics in resolving customer inquiries and concerns.

Application deadline:03 April 2026

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Energy Engineer

Reporting to the Advanced Control Lead, the primary focus of the Energy Engineer is to Steward Energy Efficiency for the Refinery; identify gaps and partnering with key stakeholders to close gaps identified. Accountable for the reporting and optimisation of the Refinery energy balance, in particular ‘own use fuel’ (OUF).

The primary focus of the Energy Engineer is to Steward Energy Efficiency for the Refinery; identify gaps and partnering with key stakeholders to close gaps identified.  Accountable for the reporting and optimisation of the Refinery energy balance, in particular ‘own use fuel’ (OUF).

Other responsibilities include:

• To coach and facilitate the Business Teams and Operations Team to understand key energy drivers and efficiency improvement opportunities and how they tie to scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions (including Refinery carbon tax optimisation), production optimisation opportunities, investment choices, and other key decisions.

• To own and update the ‘Fuel Report’ spreadsheet for the Refinery and provide timely data feeds into relevant processes and teams, including Energy Intensity Index (EII) reporting for the Business Improvement Plan (BIP) and Solomon; carbon reporting (AE Governmental and Glencore Corporate); and Project Frost (Climate Change initiatives).

• To identify energy efficiency (and H2 usage) opportunities and develop plans and activities to deliver on these opportunities to reduce the site’s EII and carbon emissions.

• To draw focus to the most leveraging energy- and carbon emissions-related opportunities and create a culture whereby the organisation is collectively chasing those items the hardest, rather than treating all opportunities as equal importance.

• To support the Optimisation Engineers in monitoring the (energy impact of) slop generation, identify opportunities to reduce routine slop production, and work with Refinery personnel to address opportunities as part of a broader energy programme.

• To own the short-term fuel gas balance, including H2 usage and surplus gas flaring, and coach the operations team on optimisation of this balance.

• To monitor furnace efficiency trends and raise issues and opportunities with the Process Engineering team and Operations to improve where required.

• To ensure the LP accurately reflects the OUF usage for each plant.

• To ensure that OUF plans are communicated and understood as intended, coaching Operations and Commercial team members where required.

• To provide input to key projects (e.g., Clean Fuels) to ensure that energy efficiency is considered sufficiently early in project development to have a meaningful impact on how the project is designed.

• To roll out the use of DEMS -“Digital Energy Management System” & associated KPI’s at the refinery and process unit levels and champion its use within the Business Team, Operations and Process Engineering teams.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience required

Professional Qualification and Certifications:

Chemical Engineering bachelor degree (B.Sc / B.Eng) or similar from a recognized institution;

Work Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years of engineering, operations, commercial or oil and gas industry-related experience.
• Specific knowledge of refinery process units and Utilities (Boilers, Condensate systems, Steam Leaks), work processes and people.

Skills & Competencies

• High Proficiency in Software / Systems e.g. MS Excel Advanced for Data Analysis and interpretation
• Fluency in Simulation Tools advantageous
• Ability to coach and influence multiple disciplines; demonstrate two-way communication, build relationships, unblock barriers to getting things done
• Delivers results through stakeholder networks
• Organisational Savvy – ability to operate at all levels within Corporation and on the ground, can vary communication to suit different audiences.
• An understanding of refinery economics – molecules and $$
• Understanding of Solomon / Energy Benchmarking an advantage

Application deadline:07 April 2026

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