What are the responsibilities and job description for the Charterer position at Unipec America Inc?
Description
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Charterer to join our team. The Charterer will be responsible for securing safe, reliable, and cost-effective marine vessels in support of the energy trading business. The successful candidate will build and maintain a portfolio of vessels suitable for meeting business demands and maintain contacts to predict business requirements and to develop new opportunities. This includes negotiating and chartering of tanker vessels that adhere to UNIPEC America compliance, safety, and vetting standards.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate efforts to support the business requirements, including securing spot, short, and long-term charter marine transportation.
- Negotiate the rate and other terms with ship owner directly or via broker
- Provide logistic solution to traders, evaluate the freight and other costs as required
- Provide comments to shipping parts of some trading contracts, including freight assessment, adjustment, operation and demurrage.
- Work closely with internal groups such as Legal, Operations, Traders, Risk, and Finance to ensure we successfully achieve business goals in a collaborative manner.
- Coordinate with operations to nominate tonnage in a manner that will optimize freight costs, minimize demurrage, and ensure timely delivery of cargoes.
- Monitor various metrics to analyze performance such as market trends, broker performance, freight costs, and vessel availability.
- Maintain various databases and enter deal terms in a timely manner.
- Provide shipping market to trading department
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a Marine Operations field, such as Maritime Business, Maritime Administration, Maritime Logistics, or related.
- Requirements:
- Minimum of 5 years of chartering experience in tanker.
- Thorough knowledge of marine transportation and logistics industry.
- Familiar with ASBATANKVOYAGE and other multiple forms for Charter Party.
- Experience to commercial activities and negotiating agreements.
- Knowledge and background of API, pourpoint, flashpoint, viscosity requirements, and other industry standards.
- Knowledge of marine operations and safety.
- Effective negotiating skills.
- Strong analytical capability.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Strong bias for action, moving quickly and efficiently in a trading environment.
- Organized and able to work with substantial amounts of information.
Please note we will not sponsor, obtain, and/or petition for temporary visa status (for example, E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN) for candidates for this position and/or personnel hired for this position.
We are not accepting unsolicited resumes from third-party recruitment agencies; therefore we will not pay a fee for resumes submitted.