Barge Operator

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About the role

Maersk Energy Markets acts as the sourcing arm for Maersk in terms of supply, storage, purchase, and delivery of fuel and energy. The department handled approximately 11m metric tons of fuel purchases during 2023, including green fuels such as biofuel and methanol. With fuel being one of Maersk's main operating costs, Energy Markets focuses on optimizing it along various channels, including blending, tolling, and barging. We are a mixture of talented, passionate professionals, traders, and industry experts.

Maersk Energy Markets consists of around 70 employees located in a handful of offices around the world - from New York, Singapore, Rotterdam, Geneva to Copenhagen. The department is part of Maersk’s Energy Transition organization working to reach Maersk's net-zero target by 2040.

You will be an integral part of our dynamic Front Office team, handling bunker fuel deliveries to Maersk's Ocean fleet and other third parties in Europe. You will have an important operational role in optimizing the commercial outcomes while ensuring delays to customer vessels are minimized. There will thus be a strong need to work hand-in-hand with Trading as partners to fulfill customer demand in the best overall way.

You will liaise with a broad network of external counterparties such as suppliers, agents, terminal customer service, barge companies, surveyors, and authorities to ensure deliveries run smoothly.

What we offer

An exciting position being part of the Europe Operations team.

An opportunity to learn more about the broader shipping world while building a strong commercial drive.

The chance to join a larger department actively working to decarbonize shipping, ensuring Maersk reaches its net-zero target by 2040.

A broad network of stakeholders within Maersk all working together to solve complex and intellectually challenging problems.

Key responsibilities

Your main focus will be to work with the Europe Operations team to own activities required for a smooth and continuous operation of barges, terminals, and other assets we operate. You will be at the center of the action and coordinate closely with internal and external counterparties.

1. Delivery planning, managing supply/demand and timely scheduling of loads and deliveries from suppliers & terminals, as well as playing a significant part in the preparation of blending.
2. Close communication with Trading on planning of product movements to evaluate the commercial impact of decisions.
3. Liaising with and building relationships with barge personnel and other service providers.
4. Conducting quality and quantity controls to ensure we deliver on-spec fuel and have adequate loss control on the full flow of the product.
5. Monitoring, improving, and optimizing the performance of the barge operations, ensuring barges are planned in the best possible way to minimize idle time of barge capacity.
6. Staying on top of barge maintenance and/or docking schedules while maintaining contingency plans for off-hire events.
7. Reviewing and approving OPEX costs related to the overall end-to-end delivery process under your scope.
8. Tracking and owning barge demurrage on physical movements, ensuring claims are raised before being time-barred.
9. Supporting Finance in the month-end process under your scope, including stock reconciliation and final gain/loss.

What are we looking for

A commercially minded, energetic, and proactive self-starter with good attention to detail who is familiar with operating in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.

You have direct experience in areas of Oil & Gas operations, bunker barge operations, and servicing customers in a B2B environment.

An academic education in commerce, administration, shipping & logistics, or equivalent industry experience.

You are an individual who is motivated to always look for ways to improve and deliver better commercial results, have a collaborative and transverse mindset, great team spirit, and a positive attitude.

Fluent in both written and spoken English. Fluency in Dutch is a plus.

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