Depot Manager
Location | Kampala, Uganda |
Date Posted | January 8, 2025 |
Category |
Management
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Job Type |
Full-time
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Currency | UGX |
Description
JOB DETAILS:
Context & Environment
Favourable:
• Procedures and work instructions
• Available working team to execute tasks
• Appropriate tools and equipment for execution of tasks
Unfavourable
• Consistent product shortages in the supply chain leading to long working hours in the depot
• Delays in approval of orders for distribution resulting in long working hours
• High staff turnover –hence constant training.
• Job Holder must be willing to work for long hours in an unpredictable environment.
• Working at heights during tank dipping.
• Unkempt grass in the neighborhood of the LPG plant that attracts snakes
Activities
Main Objective
• The role holder’s main objective is to manage the white product depot with a monthly throughput of over 4,000 m3 and LPG depot with a monthly throughput of over 350 tons of LPG and annual through put of 4,200 tones
Roles and Responsibilities
• Manage the integrity of all assets in the depot and ensure good care and maintenance.
• Verify dips of all tanks daily against closing physical stocks, receipts, and issues in respect of depot losses or gains.
• Monitor quality, safety and environment in the depot.
• Coordinate with engineering on depot equipment maintenances.
• Liaise with the sales department for timely execution of orders.
• Monitor the condition of transit and local delivery trucks through safe to load / offload checks.
• Monitor depot and clerical operations according to Depot Operations Procedures and work instructions and generating Bulk reports.
• Manage the human resources in the White product depot, LPG plant and Stock Consignment customers in Eastern Uganda.
• Manage the administration of PETRO - stock control system.
• Ensure that all relevant stock documents filed at the depots and copies sent to Stock officer.
• Ensure consignment sites have sufficient good quality stock all the time.
• Monitor LPG and consumers with stock consignment operations around Jinja.
• Monitor losses in all consignment sites and advise on the way to reduce them.
• Coordinate the sampling of all trucks delivering product to the depot to ensure good quality product is receipted.
• Coordinate the monthly testing and sampling of all the main product storage tanks in the depot.
Experience/Education required
• A minimum of a Bachelors’ degree in Engineering
• Excellent technical skills and an experience in Depot Management
• At least 5 years proven experience in a busy working experience.
• Management and supervisor ability.
• Inter-personal and communication skills are a pre-requisite
• Good knowledge of petroleum industry operations.
• Excellent computer skills (Ms. Excel, Ms Word)