Selling and dispatching fuel from a bulk storage facility — usually petroleum products to commercial customers like farms, fleets, and contractors. Half logistics coordinator, half account rep, with a heavy dose of safety paperwork that's not optional.
You're selling and dispatching fuel from a bulk storage facility — usually petroleum products to commercial customers like farms, fleets, contractors, and industrial accounts. The work runs on two tracks simultaneously: the account relationship side (keeping existing customers, finding new ones) and the logistics side (dispatching deliveries, tracking inventory, managing a safety operation). Neither track stops while you're focused on the other.
Your customer conversations are price-sensitive but relationship-dependent — fuel prices move with the market, and your accounts know they can shop the price weekly if they want to. What keeps them is reliability: showing up when you said you would, being responsive when something goes wrong, and building enough trust that switching feels riskier than the price differential.
What people underestimate is the regulatory and safety layer that runs underneath everything else. Petroleum storage and delivery involves environmental permits, OSHA compliance, and DOT regulations that don't pause for a busy dispatch week. Managers who stay on top of that layer proactively avoid the kind of incident that shuts down a facility. People who can hold the commercial and the compliance dimensions simultaneously tend to run these operations well.
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Selling and dispatching fuel from a bulk storage facility — usually petroleum products to commercial customers like farms, fleets, and contractors. Half logistics coordinator, half account rep, with a heavy dose of safety paperwork that's not optional.
Median pay for a Bulk Plant Agent is about $67K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $38K to $134K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Speaking, Active Listening, Persuasion, Negotiation, and Social Perceptiveness.
Most people in this role hold a high school diploma.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 0.3% through 2034, with roughly 1.3 million people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Junior Bulk Plant Agent, Sales Specialist, and Senior Sales Specialist.
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