Director Product Tankers

FLSA Status : Regular Full-time Exempt Department : Corporate

Last Revision Date : 04 / 17 / 24 Reports To : GM-Marine

Position Summary :

The Director Product Tankers reports to the Vitus Marine General Manager and is responsible for safe and efficient operations of chartered ships into Alaska.

Typical charters are an MR foreign flagged tanker to anchor in various locations around Western Alaska where it provides STS operations to Vitus’s fleet of barges.

Direct operation season is typically April through November.

Essential Job Functions :

• Ensure compliance with Jones Act
• Subject matter expert on Polar Code
• Coordinate communication between the ship and Vitus tugs / barges
• Part of the Marine dispatch team
• Review fuel specifications when cargo is loaded
• Comply with US Customs rules on entering cargos
• Assist in selecting and vetting tankers
• Facilitate comminution with owners, managers, pilots, mooring masters, and regulatory agencies

Other Job Responsibilities :

• After hours accessibility
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management or related field
• Five (5) years’ experience in CPP foreign tankers coming to US waters
• Proven experience in a leadership role

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 associated with ship to ship transfers
• Skilled in handling situations in which limited standardization and multiple variables exist

Education :

Bachelor’s Degree

Salary :

$150,000+ (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
23 days ago