Job Description
The Role
This role involves emergency response and attending on site at oil and chemical spills globally, delivering advice to international governments and other parties. You will be assessing claims for compensation, undertaking regular presentations, and running workshops as part of our preparedness and education work.
Skills and Experience
The key requirements of this role include: a higher degree in science, engineering or a related discipline, strong written and oral presentation skills and excellent interpersonal skills; as well as availability to travel at emergency short notice.
An academic background in chemistry, relevant practical experience in a scientific/technical role and pollution control experience are distinct advantages for this role.
Fluency in a second language to English is of interest, preferably Mandarin. Competency in Malay, Bahasa Indonesia, Japanese or Korean are also of interest.
Interested?
As well as a starting salary of 8500SGD per month (12 months), we offer a fantastic benefits package, including a monthly allowance, flexible and work from home options, health benefits, and an excellent continuous training and development programme.
If you already have the right to work in Singapore, want to join a great team and think this role sounds like the job for you, then please email your completed application form and a covering letter explaining your reasons for applying for this role to ITOPF’s People & Culture team at: recruitment@itopf.org.
If you have any further questions, please contact ITOPF’s People & Culture team at the above address.
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Career options
ITOPF has responded to more than 800 incidents involving oil or chemical spills worldwide. Our highly skilled international team is ready to assist 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to provide impartial technical advice.
As a not-for-profit organisation, we have devoted efforts to developing a wide range of technical services to promote effective response in the marine environment to back up our core role of responding to ship-sourced spills.
The five key services that we offer are spill response, claims analysis & damage assessment, contingency planning, training and information. Our services are provided to our Members (tanker owners) or Associates (other shipowners) and their oil pollution insurers (normally one of the P&I Clubs), and we offer also our services at the request of governments and intergovernmental organisations such as the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds (IOPC Funds).
Our London and Singapore based team of whom are available to respond to spills, combined with over 45 years’ experience, is what makes us truly unique.
