Director, Physical Aviation Operations, UK & Ireland
Job Description
Job title: Director, Physical Aviation Operations, UK & Ireland
Company: World Fuel Services
Job description: At World Fuel Services, our employees are the key to our global success. We are industry leaders due to the innumerable talents of our approximately 5000 strong professional team. Our people thrive in an entrepreneurial and culturally-diverse environment, where innovative thinking, collaboration and efficient execution are highly valued. Our high-performance culture is what allows us to drive sustained growth. Stronger together, we promote an environment where individuals can thrive.
World Kinect is a Fortune 100 company. We provide energy, logistics, and technology solutions to aviation, marine, and land customers and suppliers around the world. Our global team of local professionals delivers innovative products and services at more than 8,000 global locations.
We offer sustainability solutions including renewable power sourcing with renewable energy certificates, evaluation, and management of both on-site and off-site solar projects with power purchase agreements, and sustainability strategy consulting.
Our mission is to create value for our business partners by delivering innovative solutions and logistics through a global team of local professionals.
This is a remote role with extensive travel within a specific UK and Ireland remit.
Responsibilities
- Provides accountabilities for all Physical Assets and their Operations in UK & IRE across the Aviation segment for WFS.
- Responsible for the setting and implementation of QHSE standards and processes in Global Physical Operations.
- Responsible for Quality & Technical policy implementation within WFS Aviation in line with Industry standards (JIG).
- Responsible for the physical asset operations including JV and COMAH locations, to ensure safety standards, appropriate staff resources, operational best practices and annual budgets are achieved.
- Oversight of logistical operations of the physical assets to ensure full utilization and operational efficiency of the asset for WFS.
- Partner with commercial leaders to align asset portfolio with business strategy and ensure appropriate asset resources to accomplish corporate goals.
- Provide a single point of accountability for WFS physical assets UK & IRE across the Aviation segment.
- Manage physical assets operating staff and provide oversight, guidance, training, and organizational alignment to achieve safety, regulatory and operational excellence, and best practices.
- Implement change and demonstrate accountability to link the organization’s risk management strategy to the asset’s day-to-day operations and hold physical asset operational leaders accountable to deliver results.
- Mitigate the physical asset’s utilization to ensure compliance with best practices and proper balance between commercial and operational objectives.
- Take responsibility for the operational effectiveness of the organization’s strategy and provide feedback and recommendations to senior management and commercial leaders on how to optimize the physical asset portfolio.
- Function as owner for the UK & IRE aviation segment’s physical asset operations budget, driving efficiency and accountability to the physical asset operations managers to stay within annual budgets set by senior management and finance.
- Interface with commercial leaders to integrate commercial, supply and trading strategy that complements prudent physical asset management.
- Involved in M&A activity around new physical assets to ensure due diligence, proper onboarding, and operational integration.
- Responsible for building annual CAPEX plan for UK & IRE aviation segment, both growth & maintenance capital for physical assets.
- Responsible for OPEX at WFS UK & IRE Aviation locations.
- Responsible for the Training requirement for GPO (A) UK & IRE to ensure that safe and efficient aviation operations occur regionally, specific attention should be made towards succession planning and business continuity capability.
- Responsible for leading key business project as required (e.g. Fleet and Ticket Automation)
- Responsible for the operation of GPO (A) UK & IRE Business systems such as AFMS, Planet FM & SIRUS from a requirements and user/customer interface perspective.
- Responsible for the strategic implementation and content of the Aviation Technical Service Agreements program
- Ensuring that BD is supported within the aviation segment by prioritizing GPO (A) UK & IRE assets, to facilitate growth whilst maintaining current operations.
Requirements
- 5 + years of Aviaiton Experience
- 5+ years of Management Experience
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Location: Canary Wharf, East London
