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Post Fixture Operator (Tankers)
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Post Fixture Operator (Tankers)
Location: London (office-based)
Level: Operations
Type: Full-time, permanent
I'm recruiting an experienced Tanker Operator (Post-Fixture) on behalf of a well-regarded shipbroking house with an active tanker desk in London. The client is confidential at this stage, but I'm happy to talk it through properly with anyone who looks like a fit.
This is a genuine post-fixture seat on a busy desk, not an admin role. You'd own the fixture from the moment the broker steps back, through to the last invoice being settled.
What you'd be doing
Once the deal is done, it's yours. You'll circulate and chase the clean recap, then follow the fixture through to completion, keeping brokers and both principals updated on vessel movements, ETAs, and anything developing that they need to know about before it becomes a problem.
Day to day that means:
- Managing the flow of documents between owner and charterer
- Issuing voyage orders
- Handling Bills of Lading, Notice of Readiness, Ship's Order Form, ullage and pumping logs, cargo documents
- Filing and tracing all documents
- Chasing outstanding items to ensure nothing stalls
- Spotting off-hire, deviation, shortage or contamination issues early and escalating them to the broker or principal
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You'll also be:
- Preparing and checking laytime calculations, and drafting or vetting demurrage claims for the principal the desk represents
- Tracking claims through to settlement, flagging disputes before they harden
- Raising and chasing freight/hire, issuing and collecting the desk's commission invoices, and following up on late payment
- Reconciling what's owed and keeping the numbers clean
What the client is looking for
- Experience: 2–6+ years in shipping, ideally post-fixture or operations within a brokerage. They'll also look seriously at operators from the owner or charterer side who want to move across into broking.
- Knowledge:
- Charter party knowledge that holds up under pressure - SHELLVOY, ASBATANKVOY and BPVOY on the spot side, SHELLTIME for period, and a real grasp of which clauses drive laytime, demurrage and documentation
- Enough Worldscale and voyage-economics literacy to sanity-check figures rather than just pass them on
- Compliance awareness - sanctions, KYC/AML and price cap, plus familiarity with how vetting status (SIRE/OCIMF, CDI) affects a fixture
- Systems - comfort with laytime/ops software such as Veson/IMOS or similar, the Baltic Exchange, Worldscale tables, Q88 and AIS tracking
- Skills:
- Strong numeracy and meticulous attention to detail. Errors in laytime, quantities or invoices cost money, and everyone on the desk knows it
- An understanding of how a broking desk actually earns - the operator protects the fixture and, ultimately, the commission
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Pluses but not essentials:
- Maritime or shipping education and a seagoing background
- ICS qualifications
The person who does well here
- Calm and methodical when several fixtures are live at once
- A strong, consistent communicator, the operator is the glue between broker, owner, charterer and agents, and the desk feels it immediately when that link is weak
- Reliable, proactive and discreet
- Comfortable being contactable in a 24/7 market
What's on offer
- A competitive salary and package, benchmarked to experience
- A discretionary bonus structure
- The specifics will be shared on a call
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