Full Time Jobs

Port Checker

JOB SUMMARY Inspect and accurately update status in N-4 for all equipment entering and exiting the port.EDUCATION: High School Diploma or equivalentEXPERIENCE: Six months general clerical experience, forklift experienceLICENSE: Valid State of Florida Driver’s LicenseTRAVEL: N/A

Stevedoring Manager (St. Croix)

JOB SUMMARY Responsible for supervising loading and unloading of all vessels, maintaining ships schedule and managing resources to complete assigned duties including interfacing with Maintenance and Traffic Departments.EDUCATION: High School Diploma or equivalent.EXPERIENCE: One to three years experience in the stevedoring field.LICENSE: Valid Local Driver’s License and Valid PassportTRAVEL: 10% travel to both domestic and international Tropical locations.

Sales Representative (St. Thomas)

JOB SUMMARY Responsible for servicing and maintaining existing customer base and identifying profitable opportunities for new business. Evaluates customer’s needs and makes recommendations to ensure premium pricing and enhancement of bottom line profit.  Requires selling skills to enhance the customer’s supply chain effectiveness with convenient and reliable transportation solutions and strives to exceed yearly budgetary targets.EDUCATION: Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Marketing or in a related fieldEXPERIENCE: Three years direct sales experience.  Two years transportation industry experience.LICENSE: Valid Local Driver’s License and valid PassportTRAVEL: Constant travel to customer base and 20% travel to other Tropical locations

Port Material Expeditor (St. Thomas)

JOB SUMMARY Responsible for ensuring all parts and materials are purchased as the best value added solution for equipment maintenance.  Ensures  accurate and timely assignment of parts for maximum performance of the maintenance shops.  Administers parts and inventory to ensure efficient quantity levels and organization of parts inventory.EDUCATION: High School Diploma or equivalentEXPERIENCE: Three years experience in mechanical parts procurement.LICENSE: Valid Local Driver’s License.  Valid PassportTRAVEL: 5% travel to other Tropical Shipping locations as required.

Terminal Manager – Nassau

Responsible for managing all processes and procedures related to vessel, terminal, equipment control operations and equipment maintenance. Manages freight handling equipment and coordinates facilities maintenance.Manages all processes and procedures related to vessel operations including stevedoring and port activities.Manages port terminal operations including interchange and yard activities.Manages freight equipment operations including inventory and equipment control activities.Manages freight handling equipment functions, including operation, maintenance and operations scheduling activities.Managers warehouse and freight distribution operations.Communicates data and information on operational issues to administrative and sales personnel as required to support customer service requirements.Develops and maintains safety procedures for operations personnel to ensue a safe environment.  Schedules departmental safety meetings and training sessions.  Coordinates maintenance of building and grounds as necessary.Performs all other related duties as requested.EDUCATION: Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management or in a related fieldEXPERIENCE: Five years experience in port operations managementLICENSE: Valid Local Driver’s License and Valid PassportTRAVEL: 10% travel to other Tropical locationsPHYSICAL: Manual dexterity to perform repetitive motion tasks on computer.  Must be able to stand and walk for extended periods of time up to 8 hours per day.  Mobility required to oversee operations activities and to perform inspection duties.  Ability to frequently twist, bend, read, squat, kneel and climb heights up to 15 feet,  occasionally must lift and carry up to 80 lbs.  Able to withstand occasional exposure to extreme weather conditions.  Ability to travel in various modes of transportation (e.g. automobile, airplane, train etc.) LANGUAGE: English

Operations Coordinator – Barbados

Responsible for tracking all of Tropical’s equipment moving both  in and out of the port, keep inventory, and generate reports to be sent to regional office.Performs all equipment control functions ensuring accurate monitoring and handling of company equipment.Records all of Tropical’s equipment moving in and out of the port by truckers for consignees.Removes batteries from reefers when not in use.Locks empty chassis when not in use.Prepares accurate monthly inventory to be sent to regional office.Monitors unstuffing services provided by port authority workers to ensure accurate, timely and safe processing.Generates Quarterly Reports on all LCL movements at the port.Performs all other duties as assigned.EDUCATION: High School Diploma or equivalentEXPERIENCE: One to three years experience with equipment monitoring and control.LICENSE: Valid Local Driver’s License.TRAVEL: N/APHYSICAL: Office Environment – Manual dexterity to perform repetitive motion tasks on computer.  Ability to bend or stoop to retrieve lower shelf files.  Ability to reach overhead to retrieve upper shelf files.  Ability to sit 1/3 – 2/3 of day.  Ability to work on feet for 1/3 – 2/3 day.LANGUAGE: English

Customer Serv Representative- Caucedo, D.R.

JOB SUMMARY Acts as a liaison between sales representative and customers.  Quotes rates, assists with bookings, follows-up on customer complaints, traces cargo, initiates FCNs, releases documents on southbound/inter-island shipments and responds in a timely manner to customer inquires.  Researches, follows up and maintains current customer accounts.EDUCATION: High School Diploma or equivalentEXPERIENCE: Three years experience in a related field required with experience in Sales, Customer Service or Traffic.LICENSE: Valid Local Driver’s License.TRAVEL: N/ALANGUAGE: Spanish and English

Recruitment & Employment Mngr

JOB SUMMARY Responsible for overall management and direction of Recruitment.  Administers applicant testing, and maintains applicant tracking system.  Provides counsel to management on application of policy, and resolving employee relations issues for assigned domestic locations.  Serves as resource in providing advice to employees on any personnel related issues.EDUCATION: Bachelors Degree in Human Resources or related fieldEXPERIENCE: 5 years of human resources experience, and at least 3 years of experience in management.LICENSE: Valid Florida Driver’s License, Valid PassportTRAVEL: 10% local travel to other Tropical locations.

Equipment Control Operator (Tortola)

B. JOB SUMMARY Responsible for the operation of the top lifter and jockey truck to facilitate vessel operations.  Interchange all containers in Port.  Maintain gate logs and update the company cargo tracking system.  Assist in stripping Less Than Container Load(LCL) cargo. Prepare demurrage bills.  Also responsible for the maintenance of the jockey truck and maintenance of the top lifter in the absence of the mechanic.C. JOB SCOPENo supervisory or budgetary responsibilitiesD. PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESOperate the top lifter to unload the vessel.  Spot containers discharged from the vessel and load containers onto the ship. Discharge loaded containers onto chassis for customer pickup.Maintain accurate interchange information for containers in and out of the gate.  Log condition of container and chassis, loaded seals, voyage number and Bill of Lading date and obtain signature of trucker for all interchange moves.  Update company computerized cargo tracking system with interchange information.Collects information for the preparation of demurrage bills and provides information to the party responsible for preparing the bills.Conduct equipment inventory audit monthly and report discrepancies to Equipment Management DepartmentPrepare and submits weekly out turn report.Perform preventative maintenance on jockey truck and documents information on standard pre-check form.Accurately maintain s weekly container totals for the Island Operations Manager to verify the British Virgin Island Port Authority surcharge bills.  Backload out bound LCL containers.  Assist in the receiving and loading of outbound LCL Shipments.Perform all other assigned duties.E. MINIMUM EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, EXPERIENCE AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTSEDUCATION: High School Diploma or equivalentEXPERIENCE: Three to five years experience within stevedoring environment and operation of heavy equipment.LICENSE: Valid Local Driver’s LicenseTRAVEL: N/APHYSICAL: Operations – Manual dexterity to perform repetitive motion tasks on computer or handheld.  Ability to frequently twist, bend, reach, squat, kneel, climb on equipment, push/pull 50 pounds, crawl, lift and carry at least 80 pounds on a daily basis.  Able to withstand constant exposure to extreme weather conditions.LANGUAGE: English    (Education and experience minimums can be substituted with any equivalent combination of training and experience)F. SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIESSkills in written and verbal communications.Skills in reading comprehension.Skills in basic mathematics.Skills in planning and organizing loads.Skills in decision making.Skills in oral communications.Skills in interpersonal relationships and customer service.Knowledge of the receiving process.Knowledge of hazardous material handling guidelines.Knowledge of basic safety rules.Knowledge of top lifter, two and ten ton fork-lifts and jockey operations.Knowledge of container stow procedures.Knowledge of fork-lift operations.Knowledge of vessel stevedoring.Knowledge of windows environment.Knowledge of computer and handheld operation.Ability to write legibly.Ability to work under deadline pressure and perform tasks as required.Ability to work overtime if required.Ability to work closely with others.Ability to perform tasks requiring physical effort.Ability to pay attention to detail.Ability to be flexible.Ability to perform tasks with minimum supervision.

Warehouse Person I (St. Thomas)

OB SUMMARY Check, stores and loads out trailer-load freight.  Deliver customer cargo.  Clean warehouse. EDUCATION: High School Diploma or equivalent EXPERIENCE: N/A LICENSE: Valid Local Driver’s License. TRAVEL: N/APrincipal Duties and Responsibilities:Counts, cubes, places on pallets and stores freight. Records on checkers tally.• Notes on tally when hazardous materials are received.• Tags freight according to marks/ports.• Operates fork-lift to load and unload freight.• Loads containers with cleared freight, making sure no additional discrepancies exist.• Performs preventative maintenance on fork-lift.• Checks and cleans equipment and warehouse/work area.• Deliver customer cargo.• Prepare trailer manifest for outbound cars.• Performs all other duties as requested.

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