Vice President LVC; Liquid Value Chain) Energy

Sasol is a global integrated chemicals and energy company with a 75-year heritage. Through our talented people, we use our expertise and selected technologies to safely and sustainably source, manufacture and market chemical and energy products globally. When you join Team Sasol, you are joining a company that puts people at the center of everything we do. Sasol invests in its employees along every stage of the career path and offers development opportunities to help you cultivate your career in a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion.

Job Requisition : 13144

Closing Date: 30 September 2026

OME: EOP:
Secunda Operations

Job Category: This is aLeadership role

• Lead the LVC (Liquid Value Chain) Energy team to deliver on planned production targets in a manner that is safe, reliable, efficient and at minimal cost.
• Manage LVC Energy department's overhead costs and assets to ensure availability, long-term sustainability, and production efficiency.
• Introduce and monitor preventative measures to manage production downtime and ensure achievement of agreed production targets.

• Provide leadership by articulating a clear vision, living the organisational values and ensuring the leadership team are aligned to support the direction of the organisation.
• Contribute to the translation and execution of the operational/refining business strategy, objectives and plan into action for employees.
• Set operational standards and targets and assure value from operational improvement initiatives.
• Cascade operational goals and long-term plans through effective two-way communication in the organisation.
• Produce refining outputs to required quality and to agreed production plan.
• Deliver high quality asset management strategies to ensure availability and long-term sustainability. Manage, revise and improve asset management standards.
• Drive continuous improvement activities by supporting and guiding management team and building a culture of pro-active operations.
• Compile annual long-term production budget providing input into a 5-year rolling capital plan.
• Develop new strategies to increase production with safe and cost-effective methods.
• Plan and set the budget to ensure the delivery of targets in accordance with the overarching business plan.
• Control cost to ensure production volumes are achieved within budget and manage internal and external costs as well as capital efficiency.
• Lead design decisions, managing implementation of Shutdown execution. Manage products, process materials, assets, waste and pollutants.
• Identification, quantification and take the lead in mitigation of process risks, continuous improvement of key process metrics to maintain license to operate Statutory compliance per plant.
• Manage operations risk by making sure that all risks are identified, analysed and mitigated to acceptable levels.
• Execution of SHE strategy to achieve zero harm, environmental compliance and FER-SR; RCR; BBS and IMS compliance.
• Apply evidence based SHE practices, in alignment with set standards, to ensure safe operations as well as playing a role in the reduction of Sasol's GHG footprint.
• Interaction with other Operations subject matter experts and establish necessary support from the Energy BU and/or Corporate Centre.
• Collaborate with Technical and Projects as well as Engineering to enable excellent operations.
• Ensure the adoption of fit for purpose standards, optimal planning and optimisation through in partnership with peers within and across the business.
• Ensure the execution of capital projects, in a manner that is safe, reliable, efficient and at minimum cost.
• Ensures the effective implementation of Sasol's risk philosophy and enterprise risk management framework.
• Ensure the provision of technical…