Coastal Lead Operator

bp; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

bp Downstream is seeking a logistics professional to manage end-to-end operational logistics for oil deals, ensuring compliance, safety, and optimal commercial outcomes. You will coordinate cross-functional teams and lead readiness planning for coastal locations across multiple transport modes.

The role requires solid trading experience, strong negotiation skills, and the ability to optimize stock and flows within bp’s policies. A hybrid work arrangement is offered in Johannesburg.

Qualifications

• Solid industry experience.
• Commercial experience in supply/trading and value chain activities.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end operational logistics of all deals to bp’s best commercial advantage whilst ensuring all contractual and group compliance obligations are met.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners, ensuring the front to back process runs smoothly and taking accountability of safety, commercial and compliance health of all transactions while ensuring bpSA’s supply security is maintained.
• Planning and execution of the supply plan in a reliable, compliant, safe and cost-efficient manner consistent with bp’s HSE and quality policies.
• Lead an Ops coordinators to maintain security of product in the 0-6 months’ time horizon consistent with approved plans and inventory targets for Coastal locations for all grades and modes of transport (pipe, vessels, gantry).

Skills

Supply/trading experience

Negotiation skills

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Risk assessment

Petroleum contracts

Operational planning

Education

Engineering/Logistics/Supply Chain or business degree

Job description

Job Family Group:

Operations Group

Job Description:

bp Downstream is dedicated to growing our customer business by delivering excellent products and services. At its core, this is about connecting how we make, move and sell energy to our customers, enabling us to operate more simply, more clearly, and deliver greater impact and value.

About the role:

• Manage end-to-end operational logistics of all deals to bp’s best commercial advantage whilst ensuring all contractual and group compliance obligations are met.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners, ensuring the front to back process runs smoothly and taking accountability of safety, commercial and compliance health of all transactions while ensuring bpSA’s supply security is maintained.
• Planning and execution of the supply plan in a reliable, compliant, safe and cost-efficient manner consistent with bp’s HSE and quality policies.
• Lead an Ops coordinators to maintain security of product in the 0-6 months’ time horizon consistent with approved plans and inventory targets for Coastal locations for all grades and modes of transport (pipe, vessels, gantry).

Key Accountabilities

• Responsible for contractual and financial performance of sales and purchase agreements for all oil movements (vessels, pipelines, in-tank, trucks and rail) in coastal Area, working closely with MPO Team to maximise profits and minimise losses on trades.
• Have thorough understanding of contractual agreements and commercial position with respect to 3rd party term contracts.
• Track stock positions within bp owned and 3rd party tankage, use economic drivers, regional demand constraints or movements to make decisions and unlock optimisation opportunities.
• Monitor all liftings, maintaining awareness of demurrage implications, validating and investigating outturn losses for sign-off by Coastal and Inland Ops manager.
• Adhere to HSSE and bp policies alongside managing any movements within the tanks licensing requirements.
• Key focal point for communicate with MPO team, Berth & demurrage ops., Masana, M&C, Advanced Fuels, Finance, wider Midstream team, GBS Settlements (Hungary), bp Shipping, JV partners, 3rd parties
• Actively assist in design and development of systems the business will implement for the future, including testing new releases to ensure the system fit for purpose.
• Build technical and operational capability of the Ops coordinator including training new joiners, fostering of learning and encouraging the sharing of knowledge.
• Prepare for and participate in key industry engagements to ensure bp’s objectives are achieved.
• Ensure all execution and control tools are updated timely and accurately, including stock progressions, OWB, recon sheets, DAS trackers, etc. to aid decision making and protect bp value.
• Use economic drivers, regional demand constraints or movements to make decisions and unlock optimisation opportunities.

Essential Education:

Degree in Engineering/Logistics/Supply Chain or business is mandatory

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

• Solid industry experience
• Commercial experience in the area of supply/ trading and value chain activities

Skills & Competencies

• Supply and/or trading experience
• Negotiation skills with the ability to maximise bp value from managing both internal and external relationships.
• Strong great teammate, able to build effective working relationships across a broad spectrum of teams. Promotes open and effective communication.
• Demonstrated ability to generate new ideas to solve problems under time pressure.
• Committed and able to deal with multiple relationships effectively
• Creative problem solver, able to challenge established ways of doing things
• Ability to build and maintain networks, both internally as well as in the industry
• Able to deliver results in highly competitive and challenging environment
• Ability to assess risks and skills to implement mitigation plans
• Understanding petroleum contracts and its implications on operations
• Ability to achieve operational and business goals through systematic planning and effective management of available resources

Why join us?

At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.

Travel Requirement:

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Maintenance Planning, Maintenance Scheduling, Operations readiness planning, Operations turnaround coordinating, Operations Turnaround Preparation, Site operating procedure development, Turnaround common process, Turnaround Planning, Turnaround pre-startup assurance, Turnaround Scheduling, Turnaround scoping, Work Packaging

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