Country Aviation Operations Manager

3 months ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Puma Energy Full time

Main Purpose:
Responsible for the technical, operational and product quality requirements at a country level at all airport depots and oversight of product quality at midstream terminals that handle aviation fuels.

To develop functional capability at country level to meet future operational requirements and to provide technical support at country level.

To work in partnership with country commercial teams to maximize value derived from aviation operations and to deliver HSSE and operational excellence at country level.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:
Key Responsibilities:
Product Quality:

- To ensure that product quality and operational requirements operational included requirements included in the Puma Aviation Manuals and JIG standards are rolled out at all drum filling locations, airport depots and midstream terminals that handle Aviation Fuels.
- To ensure that there are trained “product quality officers “ within country to handle the product quality control requirements and associated documentation.
- Has decision rights on aviation fuel quality throughout the country.

Operations:

- Has responsibility for PUMA licencelicense to operate in Country at airport depots.
- To ensure, in conjunction with the Regional Aviation operations manager, that JV core principles are implemented at JV locations.
- Represents the company at JV board meetings.
- To ensure that the operating standards and procedures in the JV take cognizance of Puma requirements.
- Where possible, to influence the JV board to implement Puma HSSE standards.
- Management of in country operations through reporting on Capex, Opex, accidents, accidents, incidents, inventory control and KPI’s.
- To perform routine visits to airport depots and midstream terminals and laboratories in order to have direct contact with personnel and to detect any possible unreported deviation to standard and to ensure correct procedures are being observed.
- Ensure that airport depots observe local airport regulations to ensure that the license to operate remains intact.
- The country operations manager optimizes the performance of the operations through guiding the efforts of teams to focus on improving the abilities of field staff, finding root causes and to problems and implementing system wide improvements and organizing the contributions of others to achieve superior customer service.
- Incident prevention, investigation and reporting is a key role.

People management:

- To manage airport depot managers in country in terms of development and training.
- To participate in people related processes within processes within country. To develop, implement and control the reporting systems in country.
- Set high personal standards and lead by examples.
- Ensure that the regional office and airport depots are adequately staffed to support airport operations in accordance with the manuals.
- Manage industrial relations and disciplinary procedures in accordance with company procedures.
- Demonstrate a commitment to building a motivated workforce.
- To take an active interest in all staff’s wellbeing to ensure they are physically and mentally fit to carry out their duties and if they are not then seek out ways of facilitating a recovery.

Aviation Equipment - Standards and Engineering Assurance:

- Accountable for the maintenance of all equipment in the depot. This includes ensuring that there are appropriate site specific preventative maintenance schedules / programs are in place and that equipment is maintained in accordance with the manufacturers specifications.
- Accountable for ensuring that there are sufficient spare parts and critical spares for continuity of operation are available and correctly stored and that replenishment orders are made timeously.

Quality and operational Assurance:

- To provide operational and quality assurance through inspection of airport depots ,depots, midstream terminals and refineries that handle aviation fuels in the country supply chain. To identify gaps and recommend the implementation of appropriate remedial action to mitigate risk.
- To inspect laboratories that conduct aviation fuels testing within the country to ensure compliance with EI / JIG 1530.
- To ensure that the document management system for quality assurance is operational and up to date and operational.
- To assist with the close out of recommendations arising from previous, Aviation JIG Aviation JIG Inspections, IFQP audits, SAPS Audits and Puma Internal Audits.

Inventory Management:

- Ensure that product levels at all locations are maintained at a satisfactory level to accommodate customer requirements and to ensure that loss / gain performance is within acceptable limits.
- Liaise with country and regional supply and logistics managers to ensure that the supply chain is free of disruption to prevent stock out or fuel rationing at airports.
- Ensure that daily inventory reconciliation and stock closures are done at every airpor



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