Concentrates Operator

Posted:
9/24/2024, 11:49:52 AM

Location(s):
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay ⋅ Montevideo, Uruguay

Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Operations & Logistics

Main Purpose:

Founded in 1993, Trafigura is one of the largest physical commodities trading groups in the world. At the heart of global supply, Trafigura connects the world with the vital resources it needs. Through our Oil & Petroleum Products, Metals and Minerals, and Power and Renewables divisions, we deploy infrastructure, skills and a global network to move commodities from where they are plentiful to where they are needed most, forming strong relationships that make supply chains more efficient, secure and sustainable.

Trafigura also owns and operates a number of industrial assets including a majority share of global multi-metals producer Nyrstar and fuel storage and distribution company Puma Energy; and joint ventures Impala Terminals, a port and logistics provider, and Nala Renewables, a power and renewable energy investment and development platform. With over 1,000 shareholders, Trafigura is owned by its employees and employs over 13,000 people working in 48 countries.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

- Engineering/Chemistry/Mathematics/International Business: University Degree or Advanced
Student
- Numerical skills s and Logical thinking
- Proactive and Hard working
- Languages: Fluent English


Key Responsibilities:
- Organize bulk, container, truck shipments of concentrates: cargo packing, cargo loading, cargo
discharge, transportation itself , transshipment, storage
- Organize insurance of the cargo during transportation and storage
- Prepare and submit commercial cargo invoices to Receivers/Suppliers, organize settlement of
invoices in coordination with Trade Finance, manage cash exposures with Counterparties,
control/report credit exposure with Counterparties
- Work with service providers – forwarders, shipping agents, warehouses , surveyors: screening
locations, preparing service agreements, arranging payments for services, controlling quality of
services
- Organize operations for weighting, sampling and assaying of concentrates cargos. Dealing with
surveyors and laboratories, understanding facilities on the ground for weighting and sampling
procedures.
- Organizing hedging of price exposure on concentrates shipments.
- Handling data entry in the system, working with exposure, cargo reports.

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, disability, or any other legally protected status.