Senior Oil Tanker Operations Leader

Rania Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 441,000 - 661,000; Full time

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