Your Job
Koch Shipping, part of Koch Minerals & Trading, is seeking a Voyage and Marine Assurance Manager to directly support supply and trading activities involving physical movements of cargo over the water.
Our Team
This role will report to the Director of Operations and will be based in Houston, TX with a hybrid schedule. This role involves support of world-wide operations that operate continuously and in multiple time zones. Requires some availability for calls and emails outside office hours.
What You Will Do
Voyage Manager:
- Optimize vessel and voyage performance.
- Maintain voyage activity information relating to operations updates, voyage specific and other business processes involved with a ship voyage.
- Interact with in-transit vessels as necessary to help achieve a desired voyage outcome.
- Partner directly with traders, charterers, ship owners, scheduling personnel, and others to provide vessel and commercial operations expertise
- Assess vessel and voyage attributes and risk associated with a specific vessel use.
Marine Assurance Manager:
- Review and approve/deny proposed tankers for time and voyage charters based on vetting reports including ship condition, operating history, ship crew, sanctions compliance and other pertinent vetting information compiled by Koch analysts
- Collaborate with Koch’s dry bulk director of operations to manage the overall ship vetting capability
- Manage Koch Shipping’s SIRE inspection business with the assistance of the marine assurance analysts.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Minimum 5 years sea-going experience on tanker vessels.
- Experience as a voyage manager of tanker vessels
- Experience using technology particularly MS Office, Shipping Operation system
What Will Put You Ahead
- Experience as ship captain or chief mate
- Ship vetting experience
- Experience with Veson VIP and Sedna systems
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Hiring Philosophy
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Who We Are
As a Koch company, Koch Minerals & Trading (KM&T) specializes in the innovative procurement, exchange, and delivery of essential commodity products and services that empower our daily way of life. We pursue the development of investments into successful ventures and new, transformative platforms.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.
