Entity:

Supply, Trading & Shipping

Job Family Group:

Shipping Group

Job Description:

Role Purpose

The carriage of hydrocarbons by third party vessels represent significant risk to the bp Group. The purpose of the Vetting & Clearance team is to ensure that any vessel employed by the bp Group meets bp's standards thereby handling this risk. As part of the Vetting & Clearance Team, the V&C Superintendent through their deep technical marine operations experience will play a key role in setting mitigating measures as required to support business delivery in challenging marine environments. They will also be responsible for providing assurance to bp businesses and associates for marine related activities, by performing any combination of routine marine assurance assessments, vetting and clearance reviews and providing ad-hoc marine advice and support.

Key Accountabilities

Perform vetting and clearance activities, including assessment, oversight, screening and clearance of oil, gas, chemical and dry bulk vessels and terminals.

Perform vetting and clearance activities, including assessment, oversight, screening and clearance of vessel owner/technical manager, STS contractor and terminal operator assessment reports to settle their conformance with relevant standards and their suitability for use by bp.

Evaluate the suitability of newly identified potential TC technical managers and vessels nominated for TC and provide reports to the V&C LT.

Support the V&C LT in ensuring consistent application of all marine assurance policies and procedures and provide guidance to bp businesses to ensure implementation.

Engage and provide feedback to the Optimisation, Technical, Chartering, Operations teams to support the development and promulgation of assessment best practice with the objective of achieving global consistency of assessment activity across employed and sub-contracted activity.

Contribute towards the maintaintenance of the Marine Assurance Applications and other relevant data sources to ensure accurate and contemporary information is maintained.

Provide marine activity support and advice to bp Terminals, Charterers, Operators, Logistics Teams, bp contractors, third parties and other shipping activities as requested.

Participate in the review of marine assurance policies, procedures and application requirements as requested by V&C LT.

Conduct self verification, report incidents and breaches through internal reporting systems.

Identify, scope, draft, implement, maintain and monitor improvements in Marine assurance application (CLEAR) user base.

Essential Education/Experience

• Class II/2 or III/2 (Master Mariner or Chief Engineer) and experience as Master/Chief Officer or Chief Engineer/2nd Engineer on board oil and gas tankers.

Essential Job Requirements

• Deep technical marine operations knowledge

• Extensive knowledge of international maritime legislations and industry standard methodologies

• Strong analytical and communication skills

• Knowledge of OCIMF working standards incl SIRE, BIRE, TMSA & MTMSA

• Knowledge of operational risk assessment techniques

• The ability to identify and deliver business change in complex and challenging enviroment

• Evidence of strong IT ability and technology awareness

Technical / Role-specific Competencies

• Terminal Assessments: Purpose; Planning; Processing the BPTA

• Ship Owner Assessments: Purpose; Planning; Processing the BPCA

• Ship Owner Meetings: Purpose; Planning; Conducting the meeting with Ship Owners

• Vessel Inspections: Report Reviews; Assessing Reports

• Processing Voyage Clearance Requests: Vessel Clearance; Location Clearance

• STS Contractor Assessments: Purpose; Planning; Processing the STS Contractor Assessment

• Risk Assessment: Purpose; Review; Leading Risk Assessments

• Management of Change: Purpose; Review; Coordinating MoC Process

Desirable Criteria

• Bow-tie risk assessment modelling

• SIRE Inspector accreditation

• Chartered Status

• Knowledge of statistical analysis techniques

• Knowledge of project planning and execution processes

Why join us?

At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Analytical Thinking, Analytical Thinking, Ancillary cost management, Bunker buyer, Chartering, Coaching, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Customer service delivery excellence, Demurrage, Developing and implementing strategy, Listening, Marine assurance, Marine Operations, Marine systems and processes, Marine technical, Market Knowledge, Mentoring, Negotiating value, Operational Excellence, Partner relationship management, Problem Solving, Sentiment and Trends, Shipping/transport, Trading and scheduling operations {+ 4 more}

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

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