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Field Supervisor

Vopak Rotterdam

What is required?

  • 'WTB'
  • Managing experience
  • Good level of Dutch
  • Familiar with safety rules
  • Persuasiveness

What will you get?

  • €2,700 - €4,800 gross p/m
  • 40+ hour workweek
  • 30 vacation days
  • No work in weekend
  • Job specific training

What will you do?

  • 40% Supervise contrators
  • 20% Control/create permits
  • 20% Prepare work
  • 10% Administration
  • 10% Internal meetings

This vacancy has been created based on interviews with employees to help you get a realistic preview of the job.

Vacancy

As a Field Supervisor, you will work in one of Vopak’s storage terminals. You will supervise subcontractors who are hired to perform contracting work for Vopak. This means that you will check the quality of the work and ensure that these contractors adhere to the strict safety requirements associated with Vopak’s storage terminals.

Working week

Field Supervisor
Reinoud Korz

The nicest days are efficient days on which the contractor has completed the job and I can start checking his work. Then, I work in the ‘field’ and I can get a lot of work done.

Less pleasant days occur, for example, when a contractor is running very late for work and I have to hold them accountable for it. This does not happen often, but it feels a little petty.
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  • 16:00
    • Issue permits
    • Permission Operations
    • Prepare start contractor
    • Supervise and control contractor
    • Lunch
    • Supervise and control contractor
    • Issue permits
    • Permission Operations
    • Internal meeting
    • Meeting team
    • Prepare start contractor
    • Lunch
    • Supervise and control contractor
    • Issue permits
    • Permission Operations
    • Meeting Maintenance department
    • Evaluation contractor
    • Planning work contractor
    • Lunch
    • Supervise and control contractor
    • Call with planning

Firsthand experience

You receive a call from the maintenance department, because the valve of a tank filled with oil is malfunctioning. Your co-worker from the maintenance department asks if you have time to help. You know you should open the valve, but you have not yet gotten permission. However, it is urgent. What to do?

What you should not do in any case is open the valve, because you can never act without permission. What you should do is go back to the office and consult with the safety and operations department on the measures to be taken. There, you ask whether the valve can be opened, and you wait for permission. If you open the valve yourself, the product in the tank could end up in the wrong places. Theoretically speaking, this is impossible, but in this case, the point is that you should never perform operational actions without permission.

Growth

At Vopak, you can grow in all directions; we also look for opportunities beyond your current discipline. It depends on how you develop yourself as well as the opportunities available at that time. This could be a logical growth path.

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Working at Vopak

At Vopak, we store vital products with care. Products for everyday life. The energy that allows people to cook, heat or cool their homes and for transportation. The chemicals that enable companies to manufacture millions of useful products. The edible oils to prepare food. We take pride in improving access to cleaner energy and feedstocks for a growing world population, ensuring safe, clean and efficient storage and handling of bulk liquid products and gases at strategic locations around the world. We are excited to help shape a sustainable future by developing infrastructure solutions for new vital products, focusing on zero- and low-carbon hydrogen, ammonia, CO2, long-duration energy storage and sustainable feedstocks. Although the demand for storage and logistics of sustainable energy products is changing, today we also meet the needs of today's society. At our terminals, where everything goes on 24/7, we store the vital products on which today's society is built.

We have a track record of over 400 years in navigating change and are continuously investing in innovation. On sustainability, we are ambitious and performance-driven. Our balanced sustainability roadmap reflects key topics that matter most to our stakeholders and where we can have a positive impact for people, planet and profit and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

View company profile of Vopak
  • Headquarters Rotterdam
  • Active in 23 countries
  • 18% / 82%
  • Average age 38
  • 1,100 employees in NL
  • 6,000 employees worldwide
  • 10 terminals in the Netherlands, 78 terminals worldwide

Colleagues

Thomas Visser - Management Trainee

Why did you decide to work for this company?
I have always been very interested in the global energy markets and how the energy transition will create new opportunities for the import and export of renewable energy and sustainable feedstocks. When you are working for Vopak you are right in the middle of it! As a Management Trainee, I got the opportunity to first work in the Operations department at one of the largest energy terminals. Afterwards I moved to the New Energy & LNG team, where I am currently working on developing low-carbon supply chains for new and existing customers.

What did you study?
Applied Earth Sciences

What do you do in your spare time?
During my free time, I am mainly busy with sports. I regularly play football, tennis and padel

Sander de Jong - Management Trainee

Why did you decide to work for this company?
The port is the place where it happens. And Vopak is a company that can make it happen. It is a leading company with the influence, pioneering spirit and right set of values to make a difference and help accelerate the energy transition. The dynamic and multidisciplinary character of the company really appealed to me.

What did you study?
Master Hydraulic Engineering (TU Delft)

What do you do in your spare time?
Playing football, tennis and hanging out with friends

Emma Zomer - Management Trainee

Why did you decide to work for this company?
I was looking for a company with an international work environment and where I could contribute to the decarbonization of large industrial players. Within Vopak I found not only that, but also an informal constructive workplace with amazing people. I joined Vopak during my graduation internship, and felt like I could truly make a difference with my background in Sustainable Energy Technologies. Nowadays, I work on new energy related projects all over the world!

What did you study?
Master Sustainable Energy Technology, TU Delft

What do you do in your spare time?
Horseback riding, running and drawing

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