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ENGINE seeks an agile and ambitious reporter to cover global shipping, energy and bunkering markets.

For a senior journalist this is an exciting opportunity to join a small team covering the whole world. You will get unique insights into the drastic changes we are witnessing in global energy markets, as the world recovers from the pandemic, and as the global fleet plans for upcoming decarbonisation targets. You will join a team that is working to make opaque bunker fuel markets more transparent through hard news stories and analysis. The position will be based in India, either working from our Mumbai office or remotely.

 Responsibilities

• Report news stories on the shipping industry and global energy markets
• Develop good rapport with contacts to gather and report accurate and unique content
• Write factually correct and succinct news stories about global bunker fuel markets
• Report stories from press releases, webinars and events in the global energy and shipping industries
• Write scheduled and off-diary stories for ENGINE’s newsfeed and social media pages
• Conduct interviews with bunker and shipping industry experts
• Meet rolling deadlines and file grammatically sound and clean copy
• Structure and maintain spreadsheets to compare bunker fuel prices and other relevant info to write up stories from
• Spot trends in bunker fuel pricing, quality, supply and demand
• Back up news articles and other content with notes
• Dig up and pitch stories, and communicate effectively with the rest of the ENGINE team

 Experience

• A university graduate with a strong degree or diploma in journalism, energy or shipping
• 2-5 years of experience from a news media outlet, preferably an internationally focused newsroom or publication
• Know how to find interesting story angles and write up articles based on press releases and interviews
• Be able to gather information from various sources and combine it into clear and succinct news stories

 Key skills

• Excellent English proficiency and writing ability
• Ability to meet deadlines given during fast-paced news days
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Numerical literacy
• Integrity and accuracy
• Ability to work with teammates to solve problems
• Analytical and computing skills

 About ENGINE

ENGINE is revolutionising marine fuel information. Since its launch last year, ENGINE has grown into a market-leading platform for people to access information about marine fuels. The platform is constantly pushing boundaries in a notoriously opaque market. For decades marine fuel buyers have been in the dark, trying to catch up with scattered and transient information from ports around the world. ENGINE brings shipowners together for more transparency in the bunker market.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of customer data in the CRM and data in a number of other systems, ensuring it is accurate, relevant and structured
• Develop data queries and dashboards to identify data irregularities and work with the data team to address them
• Ensuring the links between internal systems are working well
• Help maintain software integrity, spotting bugs and errors, investigating and reporting them
• Mentor and support the data entry team

Skills

• Excellent English, communication and interpersonal skills, the position will require working with different parties and often different interests
• Exceptional attention to detail, curiosity, ability to go beyond ‘scratching the surface’
• Quick learner: would need to understanding complex problems and functions of the business and how software relates to these
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment, often with little or no structure and supervision
• Past experience mentoring and supporting a team
• Experience building dashboards in Tableau or alternative BI programme
• Experience building SQL queries, understanding of data structures and databases
• Confident user of MS Office
• Desirable but not essential experience with Hubspot or another CRM
• Desirable but not essential experience with Python (pandas)

Education

• Educated to a degree level in Data Management, Analytics or alternatively 4-5 years working in data and analytics

Company Information

Integr8 is one of the fastest growing companies in the marine fuel space and provides back to back Bunker Trading services to over 650 customers. Integr8 forms part of the larger group Navig8 which is the worlds largest independent pool and commercial management company with offices based in the UK, US, EMEA and Asia Pac.

ENGINE is revolutionising marine fuel information. Since its launch last year, ENGINE has grown into a market-leading platform for people to access information about marine fuels. The platform is constantly pushing boundaries in a notoriously opaque market. For decades marine fuel buyers have been in the dark, trying to catch up with scattered and transient information from ports around the world. ENGINE brings shipowners together for more transparency in the bunker market.

We are looking for bunker purchaser to join Bunker Trading team in Singapore.

Core purpose of the role:

To liaise with Japanese / Korean suppliers regarding the supply of bunker fuel and to manage, build and maintain business relationships with current and potential suppliers.

Summary of responsibilities:

• Liaising daily with suppliers
• Managing and maintaining supplier relationships and improve supplier support
• Coordinating with supply teams for all other offices
• Sending Deal recaps / trade confirmations
• Helping Maintaining index/spreads etc with Integr8 analysts
• Setting up new supplier credit lines
• Purchasing for the Navig8 and other internal fleet
• Buying from suppliers for 3rd party traded volume
• Working profitable supplier contracts to assist sales team to pitch to clients

Skills and experience

• Ideally 3 -5 years’ experience as an ex-wharf / bunker trader
• Proven ability to develop business
• Meticulous and organized and disciplined
• Strong supply network in the region
• Other shipping experience e.g. in operations or chartering would be an advantage
• Ability to speak and write Japanese / Korean fluently

We are looking for operations executive to join Tanker Operations team in Mumbai.

Core purpose of the role: To co-ordinate the day to day operational activities of voyage and time chartered tankers.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with agreed charterparty terms
• Oversee agency appointments
• Communicate with charterers, brokers, agents and vessels regarding voyage orders and vessel itineraries
• Handle letters of indemnities
• Monitor vessel movement and voyage performances
• Review vessel stowage and tank cleaning plans
• Support Chartering desk in pre fixture documentation
• Liaise with owners regarding oil major approvals
• Support claims team with claims related queries

Skills and experience:

• Shore based shipping operator / Ops Executive experience
• Sound commercial awareness

We are looking for back-end developers to join our team of developers in a multinational tanker company. The role involves working on a variety of projects of varying sizes, writing back-end code, including console apps, services and APIs (using ASP.Net Core). We develop both internal backend systems and customer-facing applications. The majority of our work is hosted on-premises and not on any cloud infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will need to demonstrate a good knowledge of SQL and databases; a lot of what we do revolves around data so it’s necessary to have a good SQL foundation. The ideal candidate should be proficient in the C# language, the .NET Framework and possess good OO design skills. We are looking for an enthusiastic developer who has an approachable and supportive personality to complement existing, friendly and open team of developers.

Our development team is based in both Singapore and Mumbai; this role is based in Mumbai. The role is expected to work in the office on Monday to Thursday, with Friday being an optional work-from-home day.

Core purpose of the role: The role involves working on a variety of projects of varying sizes, writing back-end code, including console apps, services and APIs (using ASP.Net Core). We develop both internal backend systems and customer-facing applications. The majority of our work is hosted on-premises and not on any cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in requirements analysis.
• Collaborate with internal teams to produce software design and architecture.
• Write clean, scalable code using C# and .NET frameworks.
• Test and deploy applications and systems.
• Revise, update, refactor and debug code.
• Improve existing software.
• Develop documentation throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Serve as an expert on applications and provide technical support.

Skills and experience:

• Proficient in C#, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems and familiarity with the .NET framework, ideally including some exposure to ASP.Net Core.
• Proven experience as a .NET Developer or Application Developer.
• Good understanding of SQL and Relational Databases, specifically Microsoft SQL Server.
• Experience designing, developing and creating RESTful web services and APIs.
• Basic know how of Agile process and practices.
• Good understanding of object-oriented programming.
• Good understanding of concurrent programming.
• Sound knowledge of application architecture and design.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Effective Operational Proficiency in English, working with team members in Singapore, the ability to communicate effectively via email and Video Conference, is extremely important.

We are looking for front-end developers to join our team of developers in a multinational tanker company. The role involves working on a variety of projects of varying sizes; we develop both internal backend systems and customer-facing applications.

The ideal candidate should be proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript, SASS, HTML5 and web frameworks, preferably Angular, which is what we use. We are looking for an enthusiastic developer who has an approachable and supportive personality to complement existing, friendly and open team of developers.

Our development team is based in both Singapore and Mumbai; this role is based in Mumbai. The role is expected to work in the office on Monday to Thursday, with Friday being an optional work-from-home day.

 Core purpose of the role: The role involves working on a variety of projects of varying sizes; we develop both internal backend systems and customer-facing applications

 Responsibilities:

• Work with the designers to create user-centric websites, mobile applications and digital assets.
• Translate designs into high quality code using modern JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3.
• Work with the Back-End developers to implement software interface and functionality
• Build intuitive, rich and functional user interfaces using dynamic web presentation technology.
• Develop new user-facing features for both web and mobile devices
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimise application for maximum speed, reliability and scalability
• Collaborate with other team members
• Support and maintain existing applications
• Participate in requirements analysis.

Skills and experience:

• 4+ years’ web development experience required
• Proficient knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript, SASS, HTML5 and web frameworks, preferably Angular
• Good understanding of asynchronous programming, e.g. partial page updates and AJAX
• In-depth understanding of software development processes (design, development and deployment)
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
• Familiarity with testing and debugging applications
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Basic knowledge of source control methodologies, such as Git
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and apply diverse web technologies and techniques

Objective:

This is an intensive 3 months target driven training programme which has been designed to develop bunker traders in record time. The candidates are given all resources and training needed. In order to successfully complete the training programme you will need to show proactiveness, drive, entrepreneurial qualities and resourcefulness.

 

Bunker Trader Training Programme:

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Duration of training programme:

• 3 months (during probationary period).
• After completion of program the candidates will be offered a permanent position as a bunker trader.​Phases:Phase 1: First month
• Bunker Operations: Candidates will be assigned a Senior Bunker Operator to teach them how bunker deliveries work. During this process, the candidate will be assigned several deliveries for them to operate and coordinate while being supervised by the Senior Bunker Operator.
• Vessel Operations: Candidates will get an introduction to vessel operations and will be expected to be able to display understanding of what vessel operators take into consideration when performing bunker planning and procurement.
• Market Information and networking: Candidates will be asked to show commercial initiative and develop in depth market knowledge from the start. This includes sales training.​Phase 2: Second monthPortfolio development: Candidates spend phase 2 networking and building their customer portfolio simultaneously to develop their sales skills and market knowledge.​Phase 3: Third monthTrading: Candidates will get the opportunity to refine their approach to sales and commence with assisting their newly created portfolios with bunker procurement alongside a senior trader. All candidates are expected to have successfully started trading before the end of phase 3.

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  Main Responsibilities:

  Bunker/vessel operations:

• Understand the information sharing between Agent, Supplier, Customer and Surveyors.
• Assist in managing internal and external web portals to keep the status of live operations up to date.
• Assist various operations desks and perform physical bunker deliveries.
• Assist the Claims department and escalate incidents to the responsible trader.
• Gain an overview about vessel operations and voyage planning
• Gain understanding of variables affecting TCE of vessels
• Develop stakeholder management skills and learn how to communicate with vessel masters, shipping agents, port captains, charterers, surveyors, etc.​Sales Training and Networking:
• Conduct market research to identify and contact prospective new/potential customers.
• Market Integr8 and its products to customers
• Increase the customer engagement and build your own customer portfolio.
• Learn about bunker contract terms (GTCs, bunker specifications, claims and liabilities).
• Understand the process chain of dispute resolution and mitigating measures
• Grow market knowledge and understanding to perfect your pitch and customer communications.
• Undergo compliance training​Trading
• Business development.
• Develop a healthy sales pipeline.
• Develop your personal approach to sales and trading.​Experience & Skills:
• Experience from the shipping or commodity industries.
• Capability and drive to work in a fast-paced sales environment.
• Confident in picking up the phone.
• Strong verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team.
• Ability to find solutions to problems (entrepreneurial).
• Drive, adaptability, resilience and proactivity.

The Role: We are always on the look out for experienced bunker traders to join our growing business in any of our locations. We are particularly interested in talented individuals who have a few years’ experience within the bunker trading industry, along with a proven ability to develop business and a strong sales track record. You will act as a trader/broker for the supply of fuel to the Navig8 fleet and third parties through the development and maintenance of long term business relationships with current and potential clients.

Please indicate in your covering letter which office you are particularly interested in.

The Company: Delivered by a highly-experienced team with global presence, Integr8 Fuels provides bunker trading and brokerage services to shipowners and operators that enables them to optimise fuel procurement.

With a global relationship base of vetted suppliers, and extensive knowledge and experience of vessel operations and local bunkering requirements, we deliver a market-leading quality of supply and service. Combined with availability of substantial credit capacity, we enhance the logistics, timing, terms and pricing of bunker procurement for customers.

Integr8 Fuels is part of the Navig8 Group which is the world’s largest independent commercial management company, commercially managing a fleet of over 300 vessels that operate in 17 distinct pools. The Group has global coverage, with offices strategically located in London, Singapore, New York, Houston, Athens, Dubai, Oslo, Hamburg, Cape Town, Gurgaon, Mumbai and Shanghai.

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