Head of Tank Management Operations

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

PetroSeraya Pte. Ltd is the physical oil trading and tank leasing arm of the YTL PowerSeraya Group. Its establishment on 2 April 2007 marks the Group's strategic move to optimise its fuel management assets.

As YTL PowerSeraya's subsidiary, it plays a key role in managing the Group's fuel purchases which constitutes part of the power generation cost. Through direct sourcing and its bulk purchases, it is more likely to secure better prices and achieve greater economies of scale.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Head of Tank Management Operations provides strategic and operational leadership across terminal, tank farm, fuel system, logistics, and maintenance activities. The role ensures the safe, reliable, efficient, and cost-effective storage, blending, handling, and distribution of petroleum products, while overseeing asset integrity, regulatory compliance, emergency preparedness, inventory management, infrastructure development, financial performance, and workforce capability. The position is also accountable for maintaining adequate fuel reserves and ensuring fuel availability to support continuous power plant operations.

1. Terminal and Fuel Operations

• Lead safe, reliable, and cost-effective terminal, tank farm, fuel system, logistics, and maintenance operations.
• Oversee product receipt, storage, blending, transfer, dispatch, inventory reconciliation, loss control, and fuel availability for power plant operations.

2. Safety, Health, Environment and Regulatory Compliance

• Champion a safety-first culture and ensure compliance with applicable workplace, environmental, maritime, port, and petroleum-handling requirements.
• Maintain effective operating procedures, permit-to-work and process-safety controls, training, audits, incident investigations, and environmental safeguards.

3. Risk, Security and Emergency Management

• Manage operational, process-safety, environmental, security, supply, and business-continuity risks through effective controls and mitigation plans.
• Maintain emergency, crisis, recovery, and terminal-security arrangements, and lead coordinated responses when incidents occur.

4. Asset Integrity and Maintenance

• Oversee preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance for tanks, pipelines, pumps, loading systems, and supporting infrastructure.
• Ensure critical assets meet inspection, testing, certification, reliability, and operational-continuity requirements.

5. Projects and Infrastructure Development

• Lead terminal upgrades, capacity expansion, tank development, and fuel-system improvement initiatives.
• Evaluate capital investments and ensure projects are safely delivered, compliant, maintainable, and integrated into existing operations.

6. Logistics and Supply-Chain Management

• Develop and coordinate marine, pipeline, and road-transport strategies, schedules, product movements, and terminal capacity.
• Manage logistics partners and supply constraints to protect fuel availability, inventory levels, and operational commitments.

7. Financial and Commercial Management

• Manage operational and capital budgets, expenditure, resource utilisation, contracts, and supplier performance.
• Drive sustainable cost and productivity improvements while protecting safety, compliance, reliability, and service quality.

8. Operational Excellence and Performance Management

• Set objectives, performance measures, and reporting arrangements to improve tank utilisation, inventory accuracy, maintenance, and logistics efficiency.
• Use operational data, automation, and industry practices to identify risks, remove bottlenecks, and support sound decisions.

9. Leadership and People Development

• Lead and develop high-performing operations, fuel systems, logistics, and maintenance teams with clear accountability and performance expectations.
• Build workforce capability, succession, collaboration, and a culture of safety, ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.

10. Stakeholder Management

• Maintain effective relationships with internal teams, authorities, agencies, shipping companies, vendors, contractors, and business partners.
• Represent operational interests and resolve competing priorities while protecting safety, compliance, supply continuity, and organisational interests

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering Logistics Supply Chain Management or another relevant discipline.
• Approximately 10 to 20 years of relevant experience in the oil and gas, petrochemical, energy, petroleum-storage, or related sector.
• At least five years of management or senior leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing oil-storage terminals, tank farms, fuel systems, terminal logistics, or comparable complex operating facilities.
• Proven experience leading sizeable operational teams and working across multiple business functions.

OTHER INFORMATION

• Extensive knowledge of terminal and tank-farm operations, including storage, product receipt, blending, loading, unloading, dispatch, and inventory control.
• Experience managing marine, pipeline, and truck logistics.
• Strong knowledge of Terminal Automation Systems, Storage Terminal Management Systems, and Logistics Management Systems.
• Knowledge of product blending, inventory reconciliation, loss control, and energy-efficiency practices.
• Strong understanding of asset integrity, inspection, maintenance, and equipment-reliability principles.
• Deep knowledge of HSEQ, process safety, workplace safety, emergency response, and incident investigation.
• Familiarity with OSHA, IMO, ISGOTT, and applicable local port, environmental, safety, and logistics requirements.
• Experience managing regulatory audits, compliance reporting, risk mitigation, and crisis response.
• Experience in budgeting, capital-expenditure evaluation, contract management, and vendor performance management.
• Strong project-management capability, particularly for terminal upgrades and capacity-expansion projects.

Please note that your application will be sent to and reviewed by the direct employer - PetroSeraya