What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Clean Petroleum Products Operator position at Novum Energy?
Primary Responsibilities :
- Actively manage and execute contract trades adhering to the Company’s compliance and risk management guidelines.
- Manage the desk's blend operations, collaborating closely with the CPP trading team to optimize blends and identify trading opportunities.
- Responsible for advising trader of potential issues and developing a logistical solution to optimize deal execution within deal limits, in terms of both cost minimization and margin maximization.
- Manage the safe, compliant, and efficient movement of products via various modes of transportation.
- Effectively communicate with terminal personnel to ensure load orders, discharge orders and tank transfers are conducted efficiently.
- Maintain daily communication (written and verbal) between customers, suppliers, and vessel / barge / truck owners / operators to ensure all orders are conducted in a timely manner and as per contract.
- Tank farm management- including scheduling and monitoring of tank transfers, quality and quantity review, sampling, and blending operations to ensure compliance with contractual terms as well as maximize profitability. Perform EOM Tankage reconciliation.
- Request Storage Releases / LC’s through Finance Department.
- Review and approve all operational related invoices.
- Work closely with Middle Office to ensure accurate deal entry into the ETRM.
- Provide timely and accurate daily inventory position and cargo updates to traders.
- Nominate cargo inspectors, ship agents and loss control where applicable.
- Inform customers of all cargo details (ETA’s, load volume) and provide necessary documents (BL’s, COO’s, COA’s, etc.) to comply with all import / export regulations.
- Responsible for the shipping documentation administration, this includes but is not limited to preparation, verification, processing, filing, and record keeping.
- Maintain a commercial mindset while scheduling and operating vessels to load and deliver cargoes along the value chain, as well as look out for possibilities to capitalize on opportunities and / or add value to supply chain.
- Accurate record keeping of operational deal movements to ensure regulatory compliance.
- Serve as logistics expert to commercial in all transport matters– truck, rail, marine & storage.
- Deal with cargo and freight counterparties, terminals, and vessels on a regular basis regarding all post-deal activities ensuring all necessary operational information is passed on in good time and documentary requirements are met.
- Identify and maximize the embedded optionality within charter party agreements (i.e. laycans, demurrage rates, ship space parceling, ship swaps, backhaul opportunities).
- Work closely with other Novum offices to organize and coordinate the logistics of product shipments.
- Attend industry events, developing strategic business relationships with external operators.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
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