Barge Chartering Internship (minimum 6 month)

Job description

GENEVE-WTC1(CHE)
Job Description

Start date : September / October 2020

The Trading and Shipping department employs 710 people of 46 nationalities with operations in more then 120 countries. Our activities include: 7 million b/d physical traded, 32 million b/d derivatives traded, 3000 sea voyages a year, 135 million mt crude oil transported.

The jobholder will be active within the Barge chartering department of T&S Trading Operations, ensuring organization of transport by barge for refined products (Distillates, Lights, Fuel, Biofuel, Petchem) in Europe (mainly ARA and Rhine region)

Barge spot charters,time charters & COA at the end of 2019: 1’700 charters per year / 6 million mt of cargo transported.
The associated spending to the 2019 charters was 49 M$ freight + 14 M$ demurrage
Barge Vetting demands in 2018 by T&S Ops in Europe : 3’700 (Charter +Title +Terminal risks)   

The activities will be two-fold:

1/ Assist the barge charterers in their daily tasks to gain understanding about the challenges of the job:
- Understand TOTSA's product flows and through discussion with traders and operators, identify their needs for barges
- Discuss, negotiate and finalize with barges owners spot charters, COA's and Time Charters
- Understand the mechanisms driving the barge market in Europe
- Focus on HSE aspects, such as vetting, ADN regulation, etc.

2/ Creation of a model to optimize TOTSA's barge fleet on short and medium term
- Analyze TOTSA's product flows
- Build an economic model to optimize TOTSA's barge fleet size and composition
- Modelize the optimal use of the fleet by associating the most economical barge to each cargo.

Accountabilities :
1/ Assist the barge charterers in creating value by proactively delivering safe and effective barge logistics whilst focusing on overall trading optimization and long-term performance of the actual chartering.
2/ Delivering a model to optimize TOTSA's barge fleet on the short and medium term.

 
Offer ID

31437BR
Country

Switzerland
About us / company profile

Give your best to better energy and make the commitment with Total. With over 500-plus professions in 130 countries, we offer high safety and environmental standards, strong ethical values, an innovation culture and wide-ranging career development. Be part of the global team whose mission is already shared by 100,000 employees: to make energy better each and every day.

Trading Shipping :

One of the most active players in the international oil markets

We have built a vast network of customers and suppliers worldwide, enabling us to trade on a daily basis with national oil companies, producers, other oil majors, refiners, traders, distributors and end-users.

We actively trade most crude grades and nearly all qualities of refined products, from high sulphur cracked fuel oil to gasoline components.

We have developed a set of trading strategies and expertise, which allows us to respond permanently to market changes and opportunities.

Through our commitment to the oil markets, we have become a major player in all their various aspects: physical, futures and derivatives.

Salary currency

CHF
Candidate profile

·  Last year of Master degree in Economics or Engineering or Marine transportation or Business School
·  You have a strong interest in commodities trading / shipping industries
·  You have prior experience in one of these areas:  market analysis, trading operations, risk or have gained some experience in logistic optimization or economic model development
·  Fluent in English and French // proficiency in Excel and PowerBi
·  Flexible, goal oriented, fast adapting, good communicator
·  internship must be covered by a tripartite agreement 
·  Due to restrictions applied to work permits in Switzerland we can only accept applications from Swiss or EU citizens.

Métier

Transport
Job Title

Barge Chartering Internship (minimum 6 month)
Branch

Trading-Shipping
Functional discipline

Logistics
Experience level required

0 - 3 years
Employment type

Internship
Affiliate (if known)

TOTSA TOTAL OIL TRADING SA
Interview location

GENEVE
Context and environment

The jobholder will be working in the fast paced environment of international oil trading. The barge chartering team is pro-active in proposing efficient barge transportation for TOTSA's cargoes and is reactive in adapting to ever changing market conditions.
Continuous interaction both internally with different departments (such as trading, operations, invoicing, legal department, HSE, credit, compliance) and externally with barge owners, is part of the daily job.