Petrosa Vacancies

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Here are the rewritten job descriptions according to your strict rules and mandatory format: --- **Job Title: PRICING BUSINESS ANALYST (FIXED TERM CONTRACT - 24 MONTHS)** **Overview** This is a Fixed Term Contract (24 Months) position for an Entry Level Pricing Business Analyst at Petrosa, based in Cape Town or Johannesburg. The role falls under the Marketing category and is office-based. The primary focus of the role is on analysing markets and pricing strategies to maximise revenue and margins for the business. **What you will do** * Identify markets for revenue delivery at minimal cost through value chain and discount optimisation to maximise margins. * Perform market research focusing on product pricing and discount matrix to inform the business on potential revenue/cost impact. * Perform profitability analysis on current or new business cases to ensure a business portfolio that minimises risks and maximises margins. * Administer the Basic Fuel Price (BFP) pricing mechanism and develop models for routine price calculations. * Maintain and update SAP master data with correct and current pricing elements for all traded products to ensure pricing aligns with contracts, billing is accurate, and price variances are minimal. * Coordinate all administration related to pricing issues on SAP to maintain an auditable record of changes. * Develop, maintain, and back-test price forecasting models to provide price inputs for monthly refinery production, annual business planning, and capital project valuations, ensuring validity of modelling techniques and assumptions. * Prepare reports on price trends and economic activity to keep management informed for business decisions. * Represent PetroSA at external engagements such as the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources (DMPR) and other industry/regulatory forums. * Contain expenditure within budget guidelines to ensure optimal fund utilisation in service delivery. * Assist and provide guidance to customers relating to pricing to ensure quality customer service. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **Minimum qualifications:** Advanced Diploma (NQF Level 7)/Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Economics, or Engineering. * **Minimum work experience:** 5 – 7 years’ relevant accounting/pricing experience, preferably within an Oil product pricing environment. * **Proficiency:** Proficiency in Sales & Distribution (S/D) SAP Module is a prerequisite. **Who should apply** This role is suitable for an entry-level professional with a relevant Advanced Diploma or Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Economics, or Engineering. Candidates should have 5-7 years of relevant accounting or pricing experience, ideally within the oil product pricing sector, and must be proficient in the SAP Sales & Distribution (S/D) Module. **Deadline** Oct 03, 2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.govpage.co.za/vacancies/petrosa-vacancies Source: govpage --- **Job Title: SENIOR TRADER (FIXED TERM CONTRACT - 24 MONTHS)** **Overview** This is a Fixed Term Contract (24 Months) position for a Mid Level Senior Trader at Petrosa, based in Cape Town or Johannesburg. The role falls under the Marketing category and is office-based. The purpose of this role is to supervise day-to-day trading activities, propose new trading strategies, execute purchases and sales of petroleum products, supervise trading staff, and propose optimisation strategies to ensure business profitability. **What you will do** * Supervise the implementation of the group strategy and plans as directed by the Trading Manager within the Trading department, ensuring alignment between relevant departments and PetroSA divisions for existing and new business opportunities. * Supervise the purchasing and sale of fuel products, crude oil, and refinery feedstock by actively engaging in the market, understanding the petroleum market landscape, executing physical crude, product, and derivatives trades, and building sound counterparty relationships for profitable growth and feedstock cost reduction. * Supervise the price risk function with the Trading Manager and Risk Manager by ensuring trade reconciliation and broker validation, implementing trading solutions to mitigate and manage risk within tolerable levels, and maintaining a clear, traceable link between physical and paper trades. * Monitor and supervise the supplier management function by communicating factors that might impact PetroSA's business and identifying opportunities for exploration, to protect against reputational risk and identify profitable growth opportunities. * Maintain existing relationships and partnerships, identify business threats and strengths that could impact PetroSA, and negotiate and execute trading deals with suppliers and third parties, evaluating associated risks to secure flexible, market-related terms and profitable sales margins. * Monitor and analyse external global market and environmental factors and benchmark specific business opportunities to evaluate the best outcome and fit with existing business, ensuring market opportunities are identified and PetroSA's reputation for professionalism and integrity is maintained. * Maintain strategic direction as guided by the Trading Manager and Risk Manager by ensuring compliance with existing policies and procedures, and provide recommendations and opinions to relevant executives and governance committees to ensure compliance with controls, standards, and regulations. * Develop and maintain an ongoing knowledge of trading-related standards for ports, facilities, and pipelines to ensure compliance with PetroSA's policies, procedures, and related regulations. * Develop and negotiate service level agreements with internal and external stakeholders, review them regularly, and monitor compliance with performance criteria, alerting management of any deviation. * Supervise and perform price risk management by executing approved price risk management strategies and tools, hedging price risk exposures, and protecting margins, monitoring open paper positions through daily mark-to-market procedures. * Build and maintain an understanding of the delegation of authority limits and trading-specific systems to ensure optimum system utilisation, compliance for every deal, and good corporate governance in the trading department. * Provide the required information for internal audit purposes in compliance with PetroSA's policies and procedures. * Align the execution of trading deals with shipping activities, together with the Shipping Manager, ensuring market deal analysis, shipping demand, chartering, and scheduling are available for efficient departmental operation and operational cost reduction. * Supervise and monitor the business solutions applied to the optimisation of strategic stock directives, to ensure optimum margins are derived from stock holding and to seek opportunities for profit generation associated with strategic stock. * Monitor and give input on the management of OPEX and departmental budgets for the trading department, and monitor distribution/logistics costs against budget targets, ensuring elements showing high variance are corrected. * Provide and ensure trading gives customers the required information to enable physical deals to be executed within required time periods, and provide assistance for new business development within other PetroSA divisions related to supply chain optimisation or integration of new products. * Foster a culture of self-development, provide leadership, technical advice, and mentorship to the trading discipline, and support a business environment open to creative ideas for new business opportunities and system improvements. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **Minimum qualifications:** BSc Engineering or Postgraduate degree in Finance/Business. * **Minimum work experience:** 10 (ten) years' experience within the supply and trading environment in the Petrochemical Industry and/or commodity banking, of which 5 (five) years at supervisory managerial level. **Who should apply** This role is suitable for a mid-level professional with a BSc Engineering or a Postgraduate degree in Finance/Business. Candidates should possess a minimum of 10 years of experience in the supply and trading environment within the Petrochemical Industry or commodity banking, with at least 5 years of this experience at a supervisory or managerial level. **Deadline** Oct 03, 2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.govpage.co.za/vacancies/petrosa-vacancies Source: govpage --- **Job Title: TRADER (FIXED TERM CONTRACT - 24 MONTHS)** **Overview** This is a Fixed Term Contract (24 Months) position for an Entry Level Trader at Petrosa, based in Cape Town or Johannesburg. The role falls under the Marketing category and is office-based. The purpose of this role is to perform current business architecture to execute purchases and sales of petroleum products, feedstock, and blend stock, seeking opportunities to optimise profitability and add value to the organisation. This involves building optimisation around existing business and providing integration and alignment where multiple stakeholders are involved in trading deals, in accordance with statutory and PetroSA’s policies and procedures. **What you will do** * Execute the purchasing and sales function/process by actively engaging in the market, using postulates to perform analysis, develop demand and supply scenarios, execute physical crude oil, product, and derivative trades, and assist with trading operations and reporting, ensuring a positive contribution for trading deal outcomes including optimisation opportunities for refinery or organisational assets, and building sound counterparty relationships for sustainable profitable growth and feedstock cost reduction. * Design and execute business solutions for optimisation of overland trading and third-party trading to derive optimum margins and seek profit generation opportunities. * Execute the price risk function/process by assisting with trade reconciliation and broker validation, establishing trading solutions to ensure risk levels are within allowable limits, and maintaining a clear link for physical and paper positions for all new business architecture, to mitigate risk exposure and meet business targets. * Design and execute business solutions for optimisation of strategic stock directives for the strategic stock trading function/process to derive optimum margins from stock holdings and seek profit generation opportunities associated with strategic stock. * Execute the supplier management function/process by communicating factors that might impact PetroSA’s business and identifying possible opportunities for exploration by the rest of PetroSA to ensure protection against reputational risk and for the identification of profitable growth opportunities. * Maintain existing relationships/partnerships and identify business threats and strengths that could impact PetroSA, analyse external global market/environmental factors and benchmarking for specific business opportunities to evaluate the best outcome and fit with existing business, ensuring market opportunities are identified, sustainable partnerships and business solutions, embeddedness in the market, and PetroSA’s reputation as a professional organisation with high integrity is maintained. * Develop and maintain an ongoing understanding of trading related standards for ports, facilities, and pipelines, implement policy directives, formulate procedures for approval, and utilise the delegation of authority limits for deals in accordance with PetroSA’s policies and procedures to ensure good corporate governance in the trading department and compliance to current policy directives and applicable legislations. * Assist with the development of service level agreements with internal stakeholders which are reviewed regularly, setting performance criteria critical to service level requirements in compliance with policies and procedures to ensure service delivery standards are maintained and improved. * Perform risk management by hedging physical oil exposures, implementing price risk management policies, and managing open positions using approved financial instruments to achieve the best price, profitable transactions, and ensure all market positions are covered. * Manage and ensure that business proprietary systems can be utilised for new business opportunities, and develop sets of requirements for system upgrades for future use, to ensure effective financial reporting and that existing business processes are updated before projects/opportunities are implemented. * Maintain OPEX budget targets relating to specific existing and new deals to ensure elements showing a high level of variance are corrected. * Provide and ensure trading gives customers the required information to ensure physical deals can be executed within the required time periods. * Assist in new business development within other divisions in PetroSA specifically related to supply chain optimisation or integration of new products and new markets to ensure alignment of business drivers. * Provide coaching and guidance to trainee traders to ensure knowledge transfer and capability development. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **Minimum qualifications:** Advanced Diploma (NQF Lev7)/Bachelor’s degree in Business/Finance/Commerce/Economics/Engineering/Science. * **Minimum work experience:** 3 - 5 years’ experience within the supply and trading environment in the Petrochemical Industry/or commodity banking. * **Advantageous:** Trading Operations and Overland experience will be an added advantage. **Who should apply** This role is suitable for an entry-level professional with an Advanced Diploma (NQF Level 7) or a Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Commerce, Economics, Engineering, or Science. Candidates should have 3-5 years of experience within the supply and trading environment in the Petrochemical Industry or commodity banking. Experience in Trading Operations and Overland will be considered an advantage. **Deadline** Oct 03, 2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.govpage.co.za/vacancies/petrosa-vacancies Source: govpage --- **Job Title: AUTO ELECTRICIAN** **Overview** This is a Permanent position for an Entry Level Auto Electrician at Petrosa, based in Mossel Bay. The role falls under the Engineering category and is office-based, involving the maintenance of electrical systems on plant equipment. The purpose of this role is to implement operating procedures to inspect, troubleshoot, and maintain electrical systems and components on petrol/diesel powered equipment used in the plant to ensure maximum equipment/machinery availability for production. **What you will do** * Service and repair all electrical systems and components on diesel/petrol powered equipment/machinery used in the plant to ensure maximum equipment availability for production. * Inspect, test, and conduct auto electrical maintenance on diesel/petrol powered equipment/machinery to ensure maximum availability. * Perform troubleshooting on electrical systems on diesel/petrol powered equipment/machinery and identify and resolve problems to ensure maximum availability of equipment. * Rewire equipment and install electrical components on diesel/petrol powered equipment/machinery to ensure maximum availability of equipment. * Participate in the execution of projects, shutdown, and turnarounds undertaken by the Mobile Equipment Workshop to ensure services are delivered on time, on spec, and within budget. * Provide relevant input to update the quality management systems to ensure all required information is captured and stored for planning, referencing, and audit purposes. * Provide technical support, when required, to PetroSA depots in Bloemfontein and Tzaneen, as well as offshore installations such as the EM Buoy and FA Platform, to ensure the availability, reliability, and safe operation of equipment and machinery. * Perform standby duties as per the standby roster to provide technical support to the responsibility area as required. * Execute specialised activities in the workshop to ensure maximum availability of equipment for production. * Implement SHEQ, housekeeping, and relevant workshop operating procedures to ensure the workplace is kept clean and safe for operation at all times. * Contain expenditure within budget guidelines to ensure funds are optimally utilised in service delivery. * Provide advice and assistance to internal and external customers regarding requests or queries related to the area of operation for quality customer service. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **Minimum qualification:** Valid Trade Test/NQF Level 4 Auto Electrical certificate. * **Driver's License:** Valid Code 08 driver's license. * **Minimum work experience:** 5 years' post qualification experience. **Who should apply** This role is suitable for an entry-level professional with a valid Trade Test/NQF Level 4 Auto Electrical certificate and a valid Code 08 driver's license. Candidates should have a minimum of 5 years' post-qualification experience as an Auto Electrician, capable of inspecting, troubleshooting, and maintaining electrical systems on petrol/diesel powered equipment in a plant environment. **Deadline** Oct 01, 2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.govpage.co.za/vacancies/petrosa-vacancies Source: govpage

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