Shipping Co-ordinator

Job Title: Shipping Co-ordinator
Location: Knowsley (L33 7TJ)
Salary: £28,000- £35,000 (DOE)
Shifts: Monday- Friday 08:30- 17:00
Contract Type: Permanent
We are currently recruiting for a Shipping Co-ordinator to join our client's rapidly expanding team on a permanent basis.
Working on a small operation, you will be reporting to the General Manager and looking after the shipping operations and associated administrative work.
As a Shipping Co-ordinator your duties will be;
" Liaising with Transport service providers on all matters, contract negotiation on pricing, service, loading of deliveries onto online daily shipper portals, dealing with delivery issues, late collections, lost in transit goods, lost goods claim paperwork etc.
" Producing Manifest paperwork, assimilating paperwork packs to be affixed and go with goods, printing and issuing labels for goods, checking the goods out have correct paperwork with them once made ready for despatch by production operatives.
" Identifying and complying with any transport of dangerous/hazardous goods requirements, liaising with our internal H&S department regarding this to ensure correct labelling and packaging used.
" Receiving paperwork for goods inward and allocating batch number labelling, issuing our product labels and batch number labels to production operatives.
" Liaising with our internal Sales Team regarding deliveries and any special pricing items for their customers, also confirmation of deliveries and POD requests etc.
The successful Shipping Co-ordinator will have the following skills;
" Experience in Operations, Shipping, and Logistics.
" Proficient with Microsoft packages including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
" Shipping office experience would be beneficial.
" Able to work well on your own and using your initiative.
Additional Information
" Competitive salary of £28k- £35k (DOE).
" 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
" Nest company pension.