What are the responsibilities and job description for the General Manager - Marine position at Vitus Energy LLC?
FLSA Status: Regular – Full-time – Exempt Department: Corporate
Last Revision Date: 04/11/24 Reports To: COO
Position Summary:
The General Manager-Marine reports to the COO and is responsible for efficient and profitable operations of the marine operations include 5 tug and barge sets operating in Western Alaska. This position covers all aspects of Operations for the businesses, as well as managing a Corporate Controller. This division currently has 35 employees and $60M in Sales.
Essential Job Functions:
- Manage the Marine Department overseeing tug/barge sets and support vessels
- Coach, Mentor, Motivate and Supervise various office staff as well as crew
- Ensure proper staffing for all vessels
- Influence Operations Team to take positive action and accountability for their assigned tasks
- Prepare and manage budgets for CAPEX and Operations
- Project management and shipyard management during repairs and dry docking
- Oversee lighterage and ship to ship transfers between company vessels and chartered ships or barges
- Supervise Marine Dispatcher and other marine support positions as required
- Develop strategies for growth that align with company vision
- P&L responsibly for business units
- Customer service and sales focus
- Ensure compliance with various regulations and training for business units.
Other Job Responsibilities:
- After hours accessibility
- Other duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred
- Must have a minimum of 5 years of experience managing a US tug and barge fleet
- Proven experience in a leadership role
- Highly prefer a ship captain with petroleum product transport experience
- Travel required
- Requires longer hours in summer ice-free season
- A clean driving record, able to pass a background check, and complete a pre-employment drug screening
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as contracts, specifications, operating and maintenance instructions, company policy, procedure manuals and/or state and federal regulations
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
- Mathematical skills to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals as well compute rates, ratios, and percentages.
- Ability to solve practical problems
- Skilled in handling situations in which limited standardization and multiple variables exist
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree
Salary:
DOE bonus plan
Physical Demand/Work Environment:
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to type, talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 20 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include; close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate, but may be loud on occasion. Work is usually done in an office setting and sometimes at a client facility or job site. Work may require occasional weekend and/or evening work. The position supervises exempt, non-exempt, and contracted staff.The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, vehicles and equipment; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; risk of electrical shock and vibration.
The employee must be able to physically travel by air within, and out of, the State of Alaska.
Disclaimer:
The above job description covers the principal duties and responsibilities of the job. The description shall not however, be construed as a complete job listing of all duties, which may be required from day-to-day.
