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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\nTranslate strategy into operational initiatives with measurable business outcomes and targets.\nFacilitate the development of best practice in operations and service excellence.\nDevelop 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.\nPropose 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.\nSet 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.\nLead 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.\nCo-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.\nCo-accountable (with the Operations Manager Refinery) for agreeing response plans, ensuring business continuity protocols are in place for all logistics terminals and distribution assets.\nOperational Effectiveness\nManage day-to-day delivery, running processes, monitoring performance, managing exceptions.\nAccountable 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.\nAccountable 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.\nAccountable 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.\nEnforce the implementation of all processes and procedures to ensure full compliance within Logistics, Fleet and operations.\nDevelop and implement processes and procedures to ensure that facilities are compliant.\nEnsure that the compliance methodology for the identification, assessment, mitigation and monitoring of regulatory compliance risks is embedded in the business.\nEnsure 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.\nGovern 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.\nEnsure 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.\nApprove 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.\nCo-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.\nOversee 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\nSteer 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\nOversee 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\nDirect 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)\nEnsure 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\nOversee 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\nSponsor audit and assurance activities, ensuring audits are initiated with the right assurance scope and that area peer reviews and conformance assessments are evaluated\nProvide input to mechanical integrity governance, including inspection reporting with PCMS updates, escalation of overdue temporary repairs and statutory preventive maintenance deferrals\nFinancial Management\nManage budgets and monitor expenses ensuring expenditure is within approved budgets.\nAccountable 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.\nManage capital expenditure objectives for Logistics Operations, delivering projects on time, on cost and to quality.\nGovern 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.\nOversee 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\nPeople Management\nProvide leadership to the entire team, defining objectives to be achieved by the department.\nManage performance of direct reports ensuring agreement of annual goals and measuring performance against agreed goals and addressing non-performance issues.\nDeploy people management processes effectively, in line with Company policies, procedures and prevailing improvement initiatives.\nEnsure strategy is effectively operationalised through managers and their teams.\nDrive a culture of high performance and accountability and encourage team members to live the Company values.\nDrive 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.\nSafety, Health, Environment and Quality\nEnsure 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.\nSteward OMS within Astron Energy to ensure continuous improvement, with key focus on role modelling OMS leadership behaviours for Operational Excellence and compliance performance.\nHold 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.\nEnsure 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.\nAccountable (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.\nEnsure 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.\nDrive 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.\nLead 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\nGovern 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\nProvide 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\nEnsure 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\nStakeholder Relationship Management\nIdentify, build, and nurture trust and collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders\nServe 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.\nInterface 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 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