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Total Energies


Country
South Africa

Location
South Africa

Workplace location
CAPE TOWN-TYGER VALLEY CHAMBERS 2(ZAF)

Employer company
TOTALGAZ SOUTHERN AFRICA (PTY) LTD

Domain
Operations

Type of contract
Regular position

Experience
Minimum 3 years

Candidate Profile

  • Diploma in Transport / Fleet Management / Logistics 
  • Must be able to work well under pressure in a highly stressful environment. 
  • Strong HSEQ background
  • Strong communication skills / verbal and written
  • Routing and scheduling experience 
  • Soft skills / time management and prioritising duties. 
  • Minimum two years relevant experience.
  • Problem solving skills.
  • Must be computer literate in Ms Office Suite

Activities

  • Plan and schedule the most economical and efficient routes using “Journey Management”. 
  • All deliveries to be loaded on mix journey management 
  • Pre-loading of trucks to optimise morning departure tomes and customer ETA`s
  • Achieve monthly budgeted volumes through effective utilization of the trucks
  • Issue dangerous goods declarations for every scheduled load and print to depot before planned departure time
  • Ensure no truck departure delays due to logistics, sales or operations constraints
  • Liaise with the sales department regarding customer orders and requirements. 
  • Daily inform the transport service provider operations controller/s regarding delivery instructions and customer delivery details. 
  • Monitor trips for deviations, take actions and report to Transport Manager 
  • Follow up on updates and customer eta’s with the transport service providers. 
  •  Ensure that the service provider complete all scheduled deliveries on time and in full. 
  •  Liaising with transport service provider regarding driver issues / complaints and shift changes. 
  • To liaise with the transport service provider operations controller/s regarding vehicle maintenance schedules and effectively plans and allows for scheduled maintenance. 
  •  Monitoring of trucks via OBC / Journey Management 
  • Updating planning regularly as required. 

Context & Environment

  • Peak season for winter is from May to September each year 
  • Remote areas without real-time tracking.
  • Eight depots with varying operating modalities
  • Two different transports with one depot without a fleet controller

Additional Information

  • Compliance with all HSE Policies, rules, guideline and legal requirements 
  • Promotion of safe working environment and positively contributing to the company HSE KPIs and risk reduction strategies
  • Report at least one near miss or nonconformances per Month
  • Be part of the monthly transport HSEQ meetings

Give your best to better energy and make the commitment with Total. With over 500-plus professions in 130 countries, we offer high safety and environmental standards, strong ethical values, an innovation culture and wide-ranging career development.

Be part of the global team whose mission is already shared by 100,000 employees: to make energy better each and every day.

To apply for this job please visit totalenergies.avature.net.