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Job Title:    Transport Coordinator

Organisation: Vivo Energy (Shell)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Vivo Energy is the company behind the Shell brand in Africa and is jointly owned by Vitol, Helios Investment Partners and Shell. Vivo Energy plc, commonly referred to as Vivo Energy, is a downstream petroleum company with its headquarters in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It maintains subsidiaries and operations in 16 countries across Africa that encompass the supply, storage, distribution, and retail of a range of petroleum products.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage the Vivo Energy Uganda Limited transport operation to the required HSSE standards and contractual HSSE requirements, maintaining high levels of HSSE discipline for transport activities. Ensure that Haulier, Journey, Vehicle and Driver management requirements are implemented in detail.
• Optimize primary transport cost by constantly driving, monitoring and reviewing the factors that influence unit and overall transport costs (rail/ pipeline-road combinations, loading/dispatch locations, freight model and unit rates, etc)
• Manage scheduling activities for Vivo Energy Uganda Limited to achieve vehicle utilization targets, transport unit cost targets, Customer SLA targets and OT/OTIF Targets.
• Ensure procedures, requirements and good practices are observed for safe, timely and efficiently product delivery to Customers (fleet availability, correct documentation, efficient planning / schedule, confirmation of all trips as delivered and closed, etc)
• Expeditiously resolve and close any issues and complaints (quality, quantity, timeliness, longer than expected in transit, accident / theft / loss recoveries, etc) relating to product transportation, effecting required remedial action (disciplinary, cost recovery, procedures amendment, reporting, etc).
• Regularly monitor, report and where required, take corrective action on transport performance / KPIs and cost trends.
• Keep monitoring operations expenditure against budget particularly primary/secondary distribution. Also monitor and manage other non-transport opex.
• Manage accuracy and timeliness of payments to Hauliers for product haulage. Also ensure no overdues on Hauliers’ loss recovery accounts.
• Coordinate the management of Transport-related emergencies and incidents for Vivo Energy Uganda Transport activities (including those in Kenya for Uganda product), managing the response and proposing any further action required to mitigate incident consequences or escalation of incident.
• Coordinate Incident investigations, Reporting, Reviews and implementation of required Remedial Action.
• Coordinate contract management review exercises, haulier assessments, Vivo Energy audits and reviews that cover Uganda transport within in their scope. Drive closure of remedial action resulting from such audits, assessments and reviews.
• Contribute to miscellaneous activities that require data provision, analysis and evaluation (annual T&R planning cycle, transport planning and evaluation, fleet capacity and performance reviews, haulier performance reviews, driver performance reviews, tariff reviews, etc).
• Implement the staff performance requirements for reportees (Job Description reviews, Goals Settings and Performance Reviews for mid and final year, Staff Training needs evaluation and implementation, Individual Development Plans, Leave and Relief management, staff Coaching and Support)

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate for the Vivo Energy Transport Coordinator job must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Economics or related field
• Five years of experience in Distribution at a Managerial level.
• Experience with Road Transport is an added advantage,
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to relate with people at all levels within and outside the department.

PS; Persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

How to Apply:

All applicants who wish to join the Vivo Energy should apply online at the link below.

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