06/08/2024

Voyage Operator

Job Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain effective relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, to ensure the safe, compliant, commercially successful and execution of voyage. Partnering with:
  • Trading teams
  • Shipping Teams (Vessel masters, technical and marine managers, vessel owners, Vetting and Clearance, Chartering and Commercial).
  • Functional teams (Legal, Finance, AOT)
  • External Bodies
  • The Maters of the vessels
  • Provide commercial expertise and marine awareness to manage risks associated with transportation of hydrocarbons, chemicals, and dry bulk.
  • Management of all non-scheduling activity including day to day operations of allocated voyages for owned, time chartered and spot-charter vessels in accordance with the charter party terms and T&S policies and Voyage Operations Procedures, such as:
  • Management of vessel, port and berth clearances
  • Generations and issue of Voyage Orders (including load and discharge instructions)
  • Intakes optimization and UKC compliance
  • Appointments and overseeing of port agents
  • Management of Charterparty terms
  • Identifying opportunities for optimum bunker procurement
  • Make innovative commercial interventions to maximize voyage earnings and opportunities for cost savings.
  • Provide pre-fixture advice and manage clearance process of OTC vessels
  • Provide on rotation out of hours and weekend coverage for regional team, inclusive of support to the bp Shipping incident management team (IMT) and Business Support Team (BST) where needed.
Skills
  • Voyage Operators are expected to positively challenge and be courageous with all stakeholders they interface with to eliminate risk and complete safe, commercially viable voyages.
  • Possess the ability to see the bigger picture through end-to-end voyage management and see how their individual actions within Voyage Operations had a greater impact in T&S and the business as a whole.
  • Demonstrate agility, attention to detail and the ability to work under high periods of pressure to tight deadlines whilst prioritizing a varied workload.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and able to create and maintain working relationships.
  • Demonstrate proactivity and a passion for investigating opportunities for change.
  • Ability to work autonomously and provide day to day operational support to others in the team.
  • Previous commercial experience (in a shipping environment or company or marine experience gained on board an oil/gas tanker)
  • Willingness to work shift pattern including nights and weekends
Job location

London, England, United Kingdom

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