Astron Energy Jobs – 29 October 2026

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Reliability and Maintenance Manager

Ensure the safe, reliable and cost-effective maintenance of refinery assets by owning the preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance strategies and the reliability programme that underpins them. The role directs maintenance planning and execution, leads turnaround and on-stream maintenance delivery, drives reliability improvement through RCM and bad-actor elimination, and oversees warehouse and maintenance inventory: sustaining equipment availability, ensuring spares and materials availability, and optimising maintenance cost across the refinery.

Strategic Implementation

• Translate strategy into operational initiatives with measurable business outcomes and targets.
• Facilitate the development of best practice in operations and service excellence.
• Own the reliability strategy for the refinery, defining Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) scope and system selection for Preventative Maintenance (PM) analysis.
• Accountable for the RCM study — conduct Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), determine equipment criticality and select PM and Predictive Maintenance (PdM) task strategies.

Operational Effectiveness

• Establish and manage a comprehensive Reliability Programme, including Root Cause Analysis (RCA), FMEA and RCM.
• Implement predictive and condition-based monitoring technologies to identify equipment issues before failures occur.
• Manage preventive and corrective maintenance for all refinery assets, ensuring minimal disruption to operations.
• Lead maintenance planning and scheduling to optimise resource utilisation, spare-parts management and cost control.
• Manage turnaround and shutdown planning and execution, ensuring safe and efficient delivery within budget and schedule.
• Add day-to-day delivery, running processes, monitoring performance, managing exceptions.
• Drive standardisation of maintenance procedures and ensure compliance with company and industry standards.
• Promote maintenance excellence through KPI monitoring, benchmarking and performance analysis.
• Own on-stream Turnaround delivery, including technical approval to proceed, equipment handover and reinstatement, and post-TA analysis with capture of lessons learned.
• Drive maintenance performance through monthly stewardship of Rolling Work Programme (RWP) metrics and structured resolution of chronic bad actors.
• Direct warehouse and maintenance inventory management — ensuring spare parts, materials and critical stock are available to support maintenance execution and turnaround delivery.

Financial Management

• Manage budgets and monitor expenses ensuring expenditure is within approved budgets.
• Manage all direct maintenance and maintenance-overhead costs for the refinery, ensuring expenditure is within approved budgets.
• Monitor and report on refinery maintenance costs (direct and overhead), and prepare annual maintenance cost forecasts for the business plan cycle.
• Secure technical and budget approval for the Turnaround, and ensure maintenance inventory and spares holding are optimised against working-capital and carrying costs.

People Management

• Provide direction and define objectives to be achieved in area of responsibility.
• Manage performance of direct reports ensuring agreement of annual goals and measuring performance against agreed goals and addressing non-performance issues.
• Deploy people management processes effectively, in line with Company policies, procedures and prevailing improvement initiatives.
• Drive operational excellence through area of supervision.
• Oversee resource deployment to ensure adequate cover and resilience in the team.
• Promote, support, and encourage team members to live the Company values.
• Drive a culture of high performance and accountability and encourage team members to live the Company values.
• Build reliability and maintenance capability across the team — superintendents, leads and engineers — through coaching, technical development and succession planning.

Safety, Health, Environment and Quality

• 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.
• Steward OMS within Astron Energy to ensure continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with SHEQ teams to maintain compliance with environmental and safety standards.
• Ensure compliance with statutory inspection, certification and pressure-equipment regulations for maintainable assets.
• Accountable for contractor Occupational Health (OH) compliance across reliability and maintenance activities.

Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Identify, build and nurture trust and collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Accountable for reliability input to capital planning — hand over to operations, commission and conduct pre-start reviews for new assets.
• Interface with the Technical Manager on fixed-equipment integrity, RBI/IMP outcomes and catalyst strategy that inform maintenance planning.
• Manage technical service providers and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) relationships to sustain reliability performance.
• Steward OMS within Astron Energy to ensure continuous improvement.

Professional Qualification and Certifications:

• BEng or BSc in Mechanical Engineering (minimum); B-Tech Mechanical with additional experience considered.
• Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) registration advantageous; Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) or equivalent preferred.

Work Experience:

• 15+ years’ experience in a manufacturing or refinery environment, the majority in maintenance, plus operational and technical experience.
• Proven experience in maintenance planning, reliability programmes and asset integrity management.
• Demonstrated experience leading shutdowns, turnarounds and major maintenance projects.
• Experience managing a multi-disciplinary team in a refinery or heavy industrial environment.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Strong understanding of rotating and static equipment, mechanical integrity and condition monitoring.
• Deep knowledge of maintenance methodologies — RCM, FMEA, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and bad-actor elimination.
• Reliability systems and tools — Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS/SAP PM), predictive analytics and condition-monitoring technologies.
• Financial and budgeting acumen for maintenance planning and cost control.
• Strong leadership, coaching and team-development capability.
• High commitment to safety, process integrity and quality; knowledge of safety and environmental regulations.
• Strong communication, stakeholder-engagement and change-management skills.

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Operations Manager Logistics

The Operations Manager Logistics is accountable for the integrated, safe and efficient management of all Astron Energy Logistics operations across South Africa and Botswana. This includes the safe operation, storage and handling of all petroleum products at inland and coastal terminals; the safe, compliant and reliable transportation of fuel across the fleet distribution network. The Operations Manager Logistics leads a team of 133 across four Business Teams, Terminals Inland, Terminals Coast, Fleet – and is accountable for driving cost reduction, operational efficiency, asset reliability and HSSE standards across all logistics assets.

Strategic Implementation

• Translate strategy into operational initiatives with measurable business outcomes and targets.
• Facilitate the development of best practice in operations and service excellence.
• Develop and drive the implementation of the strategy, plans, vision and goals for the Logistics Operations function, encompassing terminals, fleet with a strong focus on asset reliability, efficiency and safety across South Africa and Botswana.
• Propose input into Astron Energy business strategy to ensure the long-term sustainability, growth and profitability of the logistics business, including alignment to the One Astron operating model and Glencore Operating Management System (OMS) objectives.
• Set objectives and key performance indicators for area of responsibility and developing and implementing necessary processes, systems and procedures to monitor, track, report and take corrective actions where necessary.
• Lead the strategic integration of the operations business unit into the One Astron operating model, setting the operational framework, governance standards and performance expectations for marine, aviation, bunker and lubricants operations.
• Co-accountable (with the Operations Manager Refinery, in accordance with the Delegation of Authority (DOA) framework) for managing capital expenditure for operations for within the cycle budget and ensuring logistics and terminal capital requirements are adequately represented and justified for capital approval committees.
• Co-accountable (with the Operations Manager Refinery) for agreeing response plans, ensuring business continuity protocols are in place for all logistics terminals and distribution assets.

Operational Effectiveness

• Manage day-to-day delivery, running processes, monitoring performance, managing exceptions.
• Accountable for operational excellence and OMS objectives across the Logistics Operations function, role-modelling OMS leadership behaviours and ensuring all processes and procedures for terminals, fleet, marine, aviation and bunker operations are implemented, monitored and complied with.
• Accountable for the operational performance of all Astron Energy inland and coastal terminals, directing Business Team Managers (Terminals Inland, Terminals Coast) on terminal throughput, product loading and stock management in adherence to supply schedules, hauler reconciliation and exception management.
• Accountable for the effectiveness of fleet distribution operations with oversight across South Africa and Botswana through the Business Team Manager – Fleet, ensuring fleet coordinator performance, hauler management, safety compliance and last-mile product delivery meet customer service requirements.
• Enforce the implementation of all processes and procedures to ensure full compliance within Logistics, Fleet and operations.
• Develop and implement processes and procedures to ensure that facilities are compliant.
• Ensure that the compliance methodology for the identification, assessment, mitigation and monitoring of regulatory compliance risks is embedded in the business.
• Ensure systems are implemented to execute on daily operating instructions issued to terminals, detect and assess deviations and reconcile product movements accurately against the supply schedule.
• Govern exception management across the logistics terminal network, including product shortage and price change prioritisation, loading disruptions, Electronic Data Interchange and system failures, mis-loads and stock variance investigations.
• Ensure the compliance methodology for the identification, assessment, mitigation and monitoring of regulatory compliance risks is embedded across all logistics terminals and fleet operations, with corrective action processes in place for non-conformances.
• Approve of the startup of logistics-related capital project operations and project close-out (by threshold), confirming all commissioning activities and operational handover requirements for terminal and logistics assets are complete to ensure effective and safe restart of operations.
• Co-accountable (with the Operations Manager Refinery) for rationalising and deciding on emergency procurement when standard supply channels cannot meet urgent operational requirements at logistics terminals.
• Oversee logistics data harmonisation and its upload to SAC, ensure terminal and truck-movement incidents are explained at Scorecard reviews, and direct root cause analysis of deviations, validating and approving improvement opportunities
• Steer logistics capital projects through PPC stage gates, approving tender evaluations and contractor recommendations, providing input to engineering execution, and ensuring commissioning handovers with Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR) and post-project evaluations with lessons learned
• Oversee the procurement of chemicals and additives (including emergency procurement), ensuring quality approval of incoming additive offloading, compliant chemical waste disposal and periodic vendor contract reviews
• Direct regulatory and land-access obligations, ensuring monthly tariff reporting to NERSA and leading the negotiation, renewal and compliant operation of land and access agreements (ACSA/TNPA leases and wayleaves)
• Ensure assurance on charter vessels, approve demurrage claim validations, provide input to marine loss of containment reviews and direct the resolution of import quality disputes with suppliers
• Oversee hauler contracting and its review lifecycle, approving monthly sign-offs of hauler losses and gains, reconciliations of quantities billed by third parties and contracts with third-party waste disposal providers
• Sponsor audit and assurance activities, ensuring audits are initiated with the right assurance scope and that area peer reviews and conformance assessments are evaluated
• Provide input to mechanical integrity governance, including inspection reporting with PCMS updates, escalation of overdue temporary repairs and statutory preventive maintenance deferrals

Financial Management

• Manage budgets and monitor expenses ensuring expenditure is within approved budgets.
• Accountable for all Logistics Operations costs that impact the overall enterprise EBITDA, including terminal operating expenditure, fleet costs and logistics administration, driving adherence to approved financial targets across all Business Teams.
• Manage capital expenditure objectives for Logistics Operations, delivering projects on time, on cost and to quality.
• Govern terminal financial performance, with oversight on hauler loss and gain management, stock reconciliation accuracy and materials spend, holding Terminal Managers accountable for monthly financial close and variance reporting.
• Oversee joint-venture and third-party facility agreements, leading negotiations and reviews of JV and NOJV agreements, quarterly billing and governance reviews, capital invoicing, 3-year capital planning and the evaluation and close-out of JV partner claims

People Management

• Provide leadership to the entire team, defining objectives to be achieved by the department.
• Manage performance of direct reports ensuring agreement of annual goals and measuring performance against agreed goals and addressing non-performance issues.
• Deploy people management processes effectively, in line with Company policies, procedures and prevailing improvement initiatives.
• Ensure strategy is effectively operationalised through managers and their teams.
• Drive a culture of high performance and accountability and encourage team members to live the Company values.
• Drive capability development and succession planning across the Logistics Operations leadership team, actively coaching Business Team Managers (Terminals Inland, Terminals Coast, Fleet) to build operational expertise, commercial awareness and people management depth.

Safety, Health, Environment and Quality

• 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.
• Steward OMS within Astron Energy to ensure continuous improvement, with key focus on role modelling OMS leadership behaviours for Operational Excellence and compliance performance.
• Hold ultimate operational accountability for Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) compliance across all Astron Energy logistics terminals, fleet distribution operations, ensuring compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act 85 of 1993, road transport regulations, site SHEQ policies and permit-to-work (PTW) procedures.
• Ensure the safe, compliant and reliable road transport of fuel and related products, with strong oversight of HSSE standards, driver and fleet safety, regulatory compliance and road risk management across the entire fleet distribution network.
• Accountable (with Delegation of Authority (DOA)) to manage permit and licence renewals for logistics terminals, including product storage licences, environmental permits and regulatory authorisations, responding to external regulatory audits and inspections as required.
• Ensure all logistics terminal operations meet Atmospheric Emission License (AEL), waste management and environmental compliance requirements, with oversight on  escalation and correction of any permit deviations.
• Drive a zero-harm safety culture across all contracted fleet, hauler and terminal service providers, with particular emphasis on road safety standards, dangerous goods (DG) transport compliance and HSSE risk management in marine and aviation operations.
• Lead logistics business continuity and emergency preparedness, ensuring risks are identified through scenario analysis, response plans are defined, tested annually and exercised through drills, emergency trigger criteria and decision ownership are defined, and lessons learnt are captured and shared with the enterprise
• Govern the safeguard bypass and protective-system impairment process, ensuring SORA risk assessment teams are assembled, risk documentation is completed, overdue bypasses are escalated and safety-critical devices are restored to service with records closed
• Provide input to process safety studies and programmes, including PHA/HAZOP/LOPA/SIL determination, MHI hazard identification (QRA and HAC), maintenance of the SCE list and Safety Instrumented Systems, PSSR and periodic verification of monitoring and inspection programme effectiveness
• Ensure losses of containment are reported to the relevant authority, captured and investigated, and govern the Management of Change process, approving change classifications, change risk assessments, PSSR with start-up approval and extensions of overdue temporary MOCs

Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Identify, build, and nurture trust and collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Serve as the Astron Energy Operations representative for Logistics, collaborating with EXCO, Retail, Commercial and Industrial (C&I), Lubricants Sales and Marketing and other relevant functions within agreed service levels to ensure seamless interdepartmental planning and execution of business plans.
• Interface with the Enterprise Value Chain Optimsation function through the Enterprise Supply and Demand Coordinator, Head of Operations and Chartering and Enterprise Manager to enable accurate planning, ensure operational execution capability to achieve schedule and quality targets
• Interface with the Operations Manager Refinery to promote seamless coordination with Blending and Shipping on Supply Scheduling, ensuring logistics terminal capacity constraints, product movement deviations and schedule reoptimisation decisions are resolved effectively and robust open communication channels between operations teams on all fronts.
• Build and maintain strong, mutually beneficial relationships with Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) and relevant oil companies, managing Astron Energy’s port access, berth scheduling and marine logistics requirements.
• Foster relationships with joint venture counterparts and stakeholders, managing JV terminal operational governance and performance within agreed partnership frameworks.
• Manage the organisation’s licence to operate at terminals, engaging SHEQ, Legal and regulatory support as needed, and supporting communications and resolution of logistics matters with relevant regulatory bodies.
• Collaborate with the Operations Manager Refinery on refinery-to-terminal product transfer, shared materials procurement, emergency supply decisions and business continuity planning at the refinery-to-logistics operational interface.
• Collaborate with the Operations Manager Refinery on unified asset strategies, unified operations procedures and agreed functional support requirements.
• Engage with the Technical Manager and Fixed Equipment Integrity (Fixed Equipment Integrity) Lead on asset integrity requirements for logistics terminals, including tank inspection programmes, Fixed Equipment Integrity repair scope and terminal capital investment needs.
• Engage with the Reliability and Maintenance Manager to agree and ensure clear centralised support requirements for maintenance and reliability monitoring
• Represent Astron Energy’s Logistics Operations interests to government bodies, community forums, customers and contracting companies, building and maintaining relationships that support the logistics function’s social licence to operate.

This list is not exhaustive and may include other responsibilities assigned by your line manager that are within your competency and capability to safely execute.

Professional Qualification and Certifications:

• Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) or Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Engineering, Logistics, Supply Chain or a related discipline – required
• Financial management or Master of Business Administration (MBA) qualification advantageous
• Dangerous Goods (DG) transport or hazardous materials management certification advantageous

Work Experience:

• Minimum 12–15 years’ experience in a senior management role in Supply Chain, Logistics or Manufacturing, with relevant experience in petroleum terminal operations, fuel distribution or integrated downstream energy
• Extensive experience in leading and developing people and teams across multi-site, multi-country operations
• Proven track record in terminal operational management: product loading, stock reconciliation, hauler management, JV operations and exception resolution
• Experience with regulatory permit management for bulk liquid storage, including AEL, product storage licences, road transport compliance and environmental management
• Commercial experience in fleet management, marine/aviation/bunker operations and branded marketer or customer relationships advantageous

Knowlege & Skills

• Comprehensive knowledge of petroleum terminal operations: product loading, stock management, hauler reconciliation, Electronic Data Interchange and billing across multi-site logistics networks
• Fleet, road transport and dangerous goods (DG) compliance management, including HSSE and road safety governance
• Knowledge and understanding of all SHEQ and legislative requirements to manage incident free and safe operations
• Knowledge and understanding of Terminal, Transport and Lubricants operations and related financial and operational KPI’s
• Marine, aviation and bunker operations management within the business context
• Supply Scheduling and product movement management across multi-terminal, multi-product, multi-country logistics networks
• Regulatory permit management: bulk liquid storage licences, AEL, environmental compliance, road transport regulations and statutory audit response
• OMS (Operating Management System) implementation and operational excellence leadership in a complex logistics environment
• Strong executive leadership, multi-site team development and cross-functional stakeholder management with EXCO and Board-level exposure
• Sound knowledge of applicable legislation: OHS Act 85 of 1993, Dangerous Goods regulations, National Environmental Management Act, Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) requirements and relevant SANS standards

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Technical Manager

The Technical Manager leads the Technical Department, the central technical hub of the Operations Business Unit responsible for process engineering, analytical and product-quality evaluation, technology stewardship and asset integrity. The Technical Manager provides strategic technical direction and governance across Process Support, Process Safety and Design, Fixed Equipment Integrity (FEI), Laboratory, and Control Systems functions. The role governs the process-support engineering focus that sustains operational stability and long-term asset health, owns all process technologies, catalysts and technical operating envelopes, and, through the Fixed Equipment Integrity (FEI) function housed within the department, acts as the refinery’s mechanical-integrity authority. Leading process support, process safety and design, FEI, the laboratory and control systems, the Technical Manager ensures the refinery is optimised for profitability and reliability within safe operating limits, in alignment with the plan set by Enterprise Value Chain Optimisation (EVCO).

Strategic Implementation

• Translate strategy into operational initiatives with measurable business outcomes and targets.
• Facilitate the development of best practice in operations and service excellence.
• Own the technical strategy for the Operations Business Unit as the custodian of all process technologies, catalysts and technical operating envelopes, ensuring the asset’s long-term health and competitiveness are protected and advanced.
• Own the catalyst and chemicals management strategy and ensuring proposals into the strategy are in keeping with operational reliability, performance and profitability targets aligned to the business plan.
•  the evaluation and recommendation of chemical contractors and tenders to secure optimal chemical performance and value.
• Steward technology across the refinery, maintaining technology-licensor relationships, governing process guarantees and operating envelopes and evaluating technology upgrades to sustain and improve asset capability.
• Ensures technoeconomic viability of projects within the Astron Energy project portfolio strategy and business plan, as the Project Prioritisation Committee approval authority to proceed along the project stage gate model to detailed engineering

Operational Effectiveness

• Provide technical leadership to the Process Support, Process Safety and Design, FEI, Laboratory and Control Systems functions, ensuring disciplinary standards, engineering practices and technical governance frameworks are consistently applied across all teams.
• Drive refinery profitability and operational stability by setting strategic performance goals for process optimisation stemming from the technical strategy, in alignment with the business plan and EVCO driven plans.
• Ensure structures are embedded for the Process Support Team to lead structured technical troubleshooting during process instability or performance degradation, to enable rapid corrective action.
• Own technical escalation requests to Glencore, licensors, technology expert consultants by ensuring a structured technical query process exists, with the supporting agreements as well as the approval of prioritised requests.
• Ensure the effectiveness of Fixed Equipment Integrity (FEI) monitoring and inspection programme through verification, ensuring the programme remains risk-based, current and aligned to API and regulatory requirements across the refinery and terminals.
• Ensure systems exist to effectively capture Fixed Equipment Integrity experience and lessons learned and the update of integrity management systems, ensuring institutional knowledge from inspection, repair and failure events is embedded in future programme design.
• Own process design capability and the process engineering design standards for Astron, and ensure the owner’s-team capability to review and sign-off of process design work performed by engineering contractors.
• Ensure the control systems workflows alignment to maintenance and optimisation of the base layer control systems as well as the development, implementation and maintenance of advanced process control through verification.
• Set the direction for the laboratory and analytical function to deliver accurate, timely product-quality certification and sample analysis, issue product-quality certificates and support quality compliance and loss reduction.
• Steer capital projects through PPC stage gates (Stage 2 and Stage 3 sanction and formal project sanction), endorsing conceptual engineering and cost estimates, Front-End Engineering Design with business case updates, the main contracting strategy and tender evaluations with contract award, and providing input to engineering execution, start-up and project close-out
• Provide input to integrity risk assessments and Integrity Management Plans, and direct integrity performance assessments and KPI reporting
• Ensure critical meters and analysers are audited annually to inform maintenance strategy, and oversee the consolidation, publication and regular review of losses
• Approve test-run purpose, type, timing and duration, endorse RCA outcomes with change requests and prioritisation, and direct reviews of resource baselines and regular sample schedules, including schedule change requests
• Endorse the detailed integrated schedule (IMS) and provide input to statutory regulatory reporting, permit and licence renewals, engagement with regulatory authorities, MOC stewardship, deviation assessments and PSSR maintenance

Financial Management

• Manage budgets and monitor expenses ensuring expenditure is within approved budgets.
• Accountable for the Technical department operating budget, including laboratory operations, control systems maintenance and engineering services expenditure, ensuring fiscal discipline and alignment to approved targets.
• Govern capital investment portfolio prioritisation and stage-gate approvals, ensuring capital expenditure commitments are grounded in rigorous business cases and deliver the targeted return on investment.
• Drive reduction of asset-related costs and unplanned downtime through effective FEI programme oversight, catalyst and chemicals strategy governance together with ensuring effective unit troubleshooting and optimisation structural capability.

People Management

• Provide leadership to the entire team, defining objectives to be achieved by the department.
• Manage performance of direct reports ensuring agreement of annual goals and measuring performance against agreed goals and addressing non-performance issues.
• Deploy people management processes effectively, in line with Company policies, procedures and prevailing improvement initiatives.
• Ensure strategy is effectively operationalised through managers and their teams.
• Drive a culture of high performance and accountability and encourage team members to live the Company values.
• Build succession depth within the Technical leadership team, coaching the technical leadership to operate with increasing autonomy and strategic contribution
• Work with the Process Support Superintendent, Process Safety and Design Superintendent, FEI Lead, Laboratory Manager and Control Systems Lead to identify capability gaps, training needs and coaching and mentoring priorities to enhance workforce capability across all technical functions; ensure appropriate organisational structures and resource loading tools are in place to assess and drive delivery across all areas.

Safety, Health, Environment and Quality

• 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.
• Steward OMS within Astron Energy to ensure continuous improvement.
• Own the technical governance of asset integrity across the refinery ensuring process safety design standards and inspection frameworks collectively meet the requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act 85 of 1993, applicable SANS standards and Astron Energy Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) policies.
• Ensure statutory inspection and regulatory compliance of fixed equipment is governed and maintained through the Fixed Equipment Integrity (FEI) function, including legally required statutory testing and certification.
• Ensure the laboratory systems support accurate and timely product-quality certificates and manages off-spec and non-conforming results in line with quality and regulatory requirements, by deciding on and overseeing external quality audits and management reviews.
• Ensure all technical activities and process changes comply with the Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993, Management of Change (MOC) and Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements, and applicable environmental regulations.
• Promote a strong safety culture within the team and ensure adherence to permit-to-work and life-saving rules in all activities

Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Identify, build, and nurture trust and collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Serve as the technical authority to EVCO GM, considering operation outside of normal operating window, ensuring operation within safe limits of the asset
• Serve as the technical authority to the Business Team Managers and Reliability and Maintenance Manager who execute and prioritise technical opportunities.
• Manage relationships with technology licensors, catalyst and chemical vendors, the central subject-matter-expert hub (Becht) and the asset chemicals-management contractor to secure technical support and optimal technology and catalyst performance.
• Partner with Reliability and Maintenance, the Turnaround organisation and Projects to deliver integrated integrity, inspection and process-support outcomes across the asset lifecycle.
• Engage with the SHEQ Manager to ensure process safety, engineering integrity and environmental management obligations are embedded in all Technical department activities and deliverables.

This list is not exhaustive and may include other responsibilities assigned by your line manager that are within your competency and capability to safely execute.

Professional Qualification and Certifications:

• BSc in Engineering (Chemical / Process) or equivalent
• Postgraduate degree (e.g., MBA) with focus on commercial, strategy or operational leadership, advantageous
• Professional registration (e.g. Professional Engineer) advantageous

Work Experience:

• 10–15 years’ experience in a manufacturing or refinery environment, preferably in a technical leadership or business-improvement role
• Proven expertise in refinery process technical support, process design, process optimisation, fixed equipment integrity management and refinery technology management
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and managing complex refinery operations
• Experience with overall asset integrity management and process safety in a refining environment
• Experience interfacing with executive leadership and external regulatory stakeholders on technical, safety and investment matters

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong capability in technical strategy setting and implementation
• Deep technical knowledge of refinery processes, process technologies and technical operating envelopes
• Strong understanding of process safety, asset / mechanical integrity, corrosion and reliability management systems
• Knowledge of advanced process control, DCS optimisation and process simulation
• Strong understanding of energy optimisation and refinery gross-margin drivers
• Strong leadership and multidisciplinary team-management abilities
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical thinking and stakeholder-engagement skills
• Sound knowledge of process-safety, pressure-equipment and environmental regulations

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Analyst – Property Contracts

Responsible for inbound telephonic communication with client base.

The purpose of this role is to draft/prepare all external documentation required to administer the new and existing retail property portfolio for all Classes of Trade (Except CORO/CLRO).

Key Performance Areas and Responsibilities

Customer Perspective

All Classes of Trade (Except CORO/CLRO):

Draft/prepare all external documentation required to administer the existing retail property portfolio for all Classes of Trade (Except CORO/CLRO) as well as any new arrangements which are entered.

• Assist with the initiation of commercial due diligence of landlord partners.
• Accurately prepare agreements, other standard AE agreements, servitudes, guarantees, suretyships, acknowledgements of debt, cessions, addenda, waivers of preference, consents to cancel and exchanges of letters for signature by an authorized signatory.
• Follow up with relevant stakeholders to ensure receipt of signed documentation.
• Use of DocuSign for signing agreement to ensure no unauthorized changes made and all signatures complete and correct.
• File electronically and manually (where necessary).

Business Excellence

All Classes of Trade (Except CORO/CLRO) Tenure:

Handles full administration role pertaining to preparation, updating and managing tenure listings for all Classes of Trade (Except CORO/CLRO) sites on an ongoing basis.

• Prepare and/or validate an accurate tenure listing containing relevant details on all legal agreements pertaining to in scope sites.
• Conduct file audits as required to establish AE tenure position with its retailers.
• Update the tenure listing whenever new agreements are entered into or existing agreements are changed.
• Notify the relevant stakeholders of any upcoming expiries monthly.
• Ensure the necessary approval is obtained in respect of any payments necessary to give effect to property transactions.
• Manage all conveyancing and related matters to agreed quality standards and within agreed service level timelines by instructing and managing outside attorneys and other service providers.

Financial Perspective

Administrative, Legal and Fiscal Support:

• Provide administrative and fiscal support to Territory Managers / Branded Marketer Managers, landowners, other internal departments in respect of over/under payments of discounts, rebates, rental account activities.
• Provide legal interpretation, contractual and procedural advice to Territory Managers / Branded Marketer Managers, Property Management Specialists, Asset Transaction Specialists, New Business Acquisition Specialists and Maintenance Department as requested/required.
• Handles full range of tasks (both paper based and SAP) related to one-time postings arising out of any account reconciliation and queries.
• Obtains Contracts Manager and business approval at each integral stage.
• Processes payment via SAP RERAPP and monitors to ensure successful completion of transaction.
• Is a go to point for all queries pertaining to implementation and understanding of all agreements and policies at retail service stations.
• Take receipt of handover documents from the field and action such documents by furnishing the legal department with necessary agreements and relevant information required to commence legal collection procedures.

Professional Qualification and Certifications:

• Matric
• Law degree (preferred)
• Conveyancing qualification/ certification

Work Experience:

• 2 – 3 years in a similar role.
• Paralegal experience (essential)
• Property Law and/or Property administration experience
• Conveyancing administration
• Legal administrative duties

Knowledge and skills:

• Legal drafting.
• Attention to detail.
• Superior Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel skills.
• SAP “Power User” capabilities due to all rental payment and billing responsibilities.
• Superior communication and professional presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate with all levels of business professionals including attorneys, landlords and their representatives, retail, property and other business units as well as external customers or vendors.
• In view of the scope of the contracts and tasks handled, paralegal / equivalent experience is a pre-requisite.

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