Marine Advisor

Job Profile Summary
Working within bp Trading & Shipping, your role as a Marine Advisor will be to play a vital role in the provision of technical advice, knowledge, experience and solutions to projects and activities across a number of bp entities.

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As Marine Advisor, you will provide supporting to our Integrated Gas & Power business, our emerging Low Carbon / renewals projects, and our LNG Origination and Trading teams as they continue to develop their business and in turn deliver on their supply obligations and our continued commitment to the energy transition.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide SME and project support around a range of specialist Shipping elements, such as marine aspects to new Port developments, Ship to Ship Transfer, Tugs, Pilotage, Cargo operations, etc…
• Provide SME to emerging shipping low carbon activities. This could relate to CO2 Shipping, large scale shipping of ammonia, use of low carbon fuels, LNG bunkering and potentially offshore wind projects. Participation in vessel inspections or Joint Industry Projects can be expected.
• Provide SME relating to FSRU, FLNG and potentially FPSO operations. There being certain similarities in these activities, but each having their own very specialist knowledge requirement and often novel features. Gas to Power projects utilising FSRU’s presently carry the most significant attention.
• Participate as required in assessments and inspections of vessel owners/managers, terminal facilities and STS contractors to the requirements of the Vetting & Clearance team in order that compliance with relevant standards and/or suitability for use by bp may be accurately assessed.
• Provide technical support to LNG Trading bench including ship/shore compatibility assessments and follow up on shipping contractual matters in LNG sales contracts.
• Provide support and advice to origination and trading in the context of new and emerging opportunities including review of SPA clauses and recommendations to SPA negotiations.
• Guide and advice in support of the Vetting & Clearance teams and other internal teams and partners, as required. For instance, this could include SME support in incident investigation.
• Participate in NGO and Industry forums, particularly SIGTTO and SGMF.
• Contribute to the delivery of continuous improvement of the Trading and Project team activities and the development of best practices with the objective of enhancing capability, achieving global consistency and knowledge sharing internally.
• Contribute to identifying current & future shipping requirements for marine related activities within developing project activity where often innovation is seen early.
• Provide advice and support to LNG trading benches on operational matters relating to LNG transfer at terminals and associated commercial matters requiring a technical solution.

Essential Education / Experience :

• Class II/2 or III/2 (Master/Chief Mate or Chief/second Engineer) and experience as Master/Chief Officer or Chief Engineer/2nd Engineer on board oil, gas or chemical tankers.
• And/or Significant experience working with an IACS Class Society with the appropriate experience.
• Marine technical experience in Shipping with Project exposure.
• Participation in Ship Inspections, and Terminal/Company/STS Assessments.
• Leading Risk Assessments and implementing required mitigations.

Desirable criteria:

• Knowledge of key Industry guidance from organisations such as SIGTTO, OCIMF, SGMF, PIANC, IAPH etc…
• Knowledge of OCIMF Tanker and Marine Terminal Management and Self-Assessment, preferably with a Lead Auditor qualification.
• Knowledge of project planning processes.
• Wider commercial project experience.

Diversity sits at the heart of our company and as an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone’s place. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.

Reinvent your career as you help our business to meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!

Entity
Trading & Shipping

Job Family Group
Shipping Group

Relocation available
No

Travel Required
Yes – up to 50%

Time Type
Full time

Country
United Kingdom

About BP
TRADING & SHIPPING
Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world.

In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fuelled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world’s leading energy trader.

Join Us And Help Us Achieve These Goals By

• developing and continuously evolving a globally diversified portfolio that accesses new markets, commodities and commercial opportunities
• collaborating with our business groups to provide innovative commercial and marine solutions that add value to bp’s assets and flows
• delivering high-quality earnings and creating an organisation that is swift to identify and optimise market insights
• navigating a new era of energy for our planet, by sea
• acting with respect and integrity at all times, with the people we work with and the markets we operate in
• maintaining a comprehensive, rigorous and holistic risk control framework that ensures we operate in a safe, compliant and efficient way at all times
• empowering the deep expertise and leadership of our people

Experience Level
Senior