Transportation & Logistic Manager - Green Hydrogen

工作内容

John Cockerill, enablers of opportunity

Driven since 1817 by the entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation of its founder, the John Cockerill Group develops large-scale technological solutions to meet the needs of our time: preserving natural resources, contributing to greener mobility, producing sustainably, fighting against insecurity and facilitating access to renewable energy. His offering to enterprises, States and public bodies comes in the form of services and associated equipment for the energy, defense, industry, environment, transport and infrastructure sectors.

John Cockerill is a global player in the energy transition. With more than 200 years of experience in energy and industry, he is now developing innovative technological solutions that contribute to the decarbonization of human activities, whether it is a question of developing new production capacities of ’electricity from renewable energies, to store green electricity or to optimize the energy efficiency of existing power plants and industrial equipment. It adapts its technologies and expertise to the specific needs of its energy and industrial customers. Thanks to its electrolysers, with the largest capacities in the world (from 5 to 1000 Nm³/ h), it meets the growing hydrogen needs of the mobility, industry and energy markets. John Cockerill is thus making his technological contribution to the fight against climate change.

In 2021, the Groupe achieved a turnover of 947 million euros in 23 countries on 5 continents.

Context of Need

The John Cockerill group manufactures and supplies water electrolysis equipment for hydrogen production. John Cockerill develops integrated solutions including power supply, water treatment, compressor and H2 storage, hydrogen refueling station.

One of those equipment’s assembled in Seraing (Belgium) is particularly heavy (around 45 tons) and requires special attention for storage, packaging, handling and transportation activities.

To support the development of the Hydrogen Business Line, John Cockerill is looking for a “Transportation and Logistic Manager”. The role will evolve along the maturity of the business as well as the balance between operational, strategic and managerial tasks.

The Transportation and Logistics Manager reports directly to Supply Chain and S&OP Manager for the Hydrogen Business.

Responsibilities

The Transportation Manager will:

• Define, analyze (feasibility), implement and optimize ways and means for:
• Handling options for all Electrolyzer equipment’s from H2 plants as well as from partners and suppliers,
• Transportation to customer facilities based on all possible alternatives: road, rail, river/sea modes starting from H2 Plant,
• (as back-up) Transportation between our facilities and from suppliers to our facilities (and reverse) including multi way packaging,
• Organize and continuously optimize the distribution of oversize and possibly overweight equipment worldwide. The solutions will consider internal and external constraints as well as economic and environmental aspects (standard product mode),
• Ensure process improvement at all levels of the transportation process by
• Ensuring (standard) storage, handling & transportation requirements are considered in product design – own the documentation,
• Mapping As-IS state, define To-BE state, analyze the gap and propose improvement,
• Putting procedures in place aligned with SAP best practices,
• Defining process performance measures, target and follow-up process,
• Acting as a “lead buyer” for all logistic matters: organizing tenders, putting in place frame agreements, managing contracts, etc…,
• Support specific customer order execution (customized product mode) by:
• Anticipating and organizing OTIF shipments in agreement with project teams - developing and documenting transport planning with partners, tracking transport process,
• Establish all necessary documents,
• Establish the necessary contacts with external authorities,
• Managing all different transport related matters (contract management, customs, insurance, various legislations, dispute etc..),
• If necessary, to supervise and support administrative employees in support of the function.

Based on the business forecasts the Transportation Manager will build project related logistics budget (Packaging, storage, handling and transport cost).

To support our growth, The Transportation Manager will support the creation of a logistics community and facilitate the exchange of best practices and cross-functional collaboration.

The Transportation Manager will work closely with all stakeholders for the selection and evaluation of freight forwarders, carriers, customs agents and packers to improve service levels and optimize costs. He/she will also align with the accounting department to coordinate invoicing activities linked to shipments.

The Transportation and Logistics Manager will be the main communication link with external logistics service providers as well as with project execution for all logistic related activities

Profile

The ideal candidate for the Transportation and Logistic Manager (Hydrogen) position has the following profile :

• University level education, preferably in business, engineering; preferably with element of logistics/supply chain management/transportation,
• Minimum 10-15 years’ experience in transportation and outbound logistics including at least 2 years in water, rail and/or exceptional transportation,
• Fluent in English and French,
• Technical background through an experience or an engineering degree is a nice to have,
• Hands-on with strong strategic thinking capabilities (vision) and analytical skills + strong business acumen/logic,
• (Project) leadership skills, with the ability to interact effectively throughout various functions (cross functional) and hierarchical levels,
• Continuous improvement mindset,
• Ambitious, eager to learn and grow, rigorous, accountable, proactive, customer driven (internal & external),
• Resilient and solution-oriented (working on developing projects in an environment and business that is expected to grow exponentially in the coming years.)

Offer

John Cockerill offers you career and development opportunities within its various sectors in a friendly working atmosphere. Do you want to evolve within an innovative company that will allow you to meet technical challenges on a daily basis? We look forward to your application and look forward to meeting you. Discover our opportunities in detail on www.johncockerill.com