Senior Oil Tanker Operations Leader

Rania Group

Dubai

On-site

AED 441,000 - 661,000

Full time

18 hours ago
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Job summary

Rania Group, a player in oil and gas trading and refining, seeks an experienced tanker operations professional to join our team in the Middle East. You will oversee day-to-day tanker operations, nominations, port clearances, loading, discharge, and STS transfers to ensure timely, cost-efficient voyages.

You will draft and negotiate charter parties, fixture recaps, and related clauses, verify laytime and demurrage calculations, and coordinate with owners, charterers, masters, terminals, and

Qualifications

  • Minimum 7 years in tanker operations and commercial shipping, with hands-on shore-based experience.
  • Established network of shipping agents and surveyors across the Arabian Gulf.
  • Proven ability to draft and negotiate charter parties and fixture recaps.
  • Strong laytime and demurrage calculations and claims experience.
  • Advanced voyage economics, freight assessment and cost control.

Responsibilities

  • Handle day-to-day tanker operations, including nominations, port clearances, loading, discharge, and STS transfers.
  • Draft and negotiate charter parties, fixture recaps, and rider clauses.
  • Prepare laytime and demurrage calculations and submit claims.
  • Review Notices of Readiness, Statements of Facts, logs, and time sheets.
  • Coordinate with vessel owners, charterers, masters, terminals, agents, and surveyors.
  • Maintain relationships with agents and surveyors across the Arabian Gulf.
  • Monitor schedules, laycans, ETAs, port conditions, and voyage performance.
  • Assess freight, port expenses, survey charges, bunker costs, and demurrage exposure.
  • Coordinate cargo inspection, sampling, quality verification, and shortages investigations.
  • Prepare shipping instructions, bills of lading, cargo manifests, certificates.
  • Draft emails, operational instructions, notices, and claims correspondence.
  • Make timely operational decisions within delegated authority.
  • Maintain voyage records and provide updates on progress and costs.

Skills

Tanker operations
Shipping industry network
Decision making
Charter party drafting
Laytime & demurrage
Voyage economics
Cargo operations
Vessel coordination
Business correspondence
English proficiency
Excel proficiency

Education

Maritime degree

Tools

Voyage management systems

Job description

Rania Group, a player in oil and gas trading and refining, seeks an experienced tanker operations professional to join our team in the Middle East. You will oversee day-to-day tanker operations, nominations, port clearances, loading, discharge, and STS transfers to ensure timely, cost-efficient voyages.

You will draft and negotiate charter parties, fixture recaps, and related clauses, verify laytime and demurrage calculations, and coordinate with owners, charterers, masters, terminals, and

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