AddressJob title: Cargo Operations Clerk
Location: Warton
Salary: £32,000+ Depending on experience
What you’ll be doing:
- Assist the Cargo Operations Team with day-to-day tasks
- Liaising with clients, suppliers and colleagues via telephone and e-mail.
- Basic administration duties; such as processing invoices, maintaining spreadsheets etc.
- Maintaining and updating the warehousing infrastructure and processes/procedures as required by the business, operating warehousing processes to meet agreed service levels, as well as understanding the key issues in relation to transport management
- Cargo Operations Clerk will interface with key stakeholders both inside and outside of the Supply Chain, and appreciate the impacts of logistics decisions on the Supply Chain as a whole
- Responsible for all Cargo documentation. Including manifests, Airway Bills, dangerous goods acceptance paperwork, the creation of Consignment Security Declarations and driver security checks
- Creation / Input of Import/Export entries
- Production of Load Information Reports in accordance with weight and balance of the Aircraft
- Ensure the ITSF remains compliant within UKBF Regulation and UK Law
- Seek out opportunities for continuous improvement, including automation, process improvement and consumption management
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
- Confident in Microsoft Office tools including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Experience of data entry
- Great organisational and interpersonal skills
- Ability to implement positively new ideas proposed by others, suggesting adaptations where this will lead to further improvements
- Highly Organized with a willingness to learn and develop
Desirable:
- Dangerous Goods by Air qualified to Acceptance Level (Category 6)
- Knowledge of Imports process including Descartes ICS and Pentant System
- Experience of working within freight forwarding
Benefits:
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Cargo Operations Team:
This is a team at the forefront of supporting the Corporate Air Travel Cargo business. As a Cargo Clerk, your responsibilities extend to collaborating closely with both Flight Operations and SMSCMC, ensuring alignment with customer expectations and regulatory standards. Significant changes to the current ways of working and developing a Stock Management System, this is an opportunity to make your mark within a developing department.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.”
Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.
Closing Date: 21ST March 2024
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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