Shipping Officer

Shipping Officer

12 Months

37 hours per week

Stevenage - Onsite

Inside IR35

Are you an experienced professional with a keen understanding of export operations and shipping logistics? We are currently seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Shipping Officer to join our client’s team in Stevenage. In this role, you will play a vital part in ensuring the seamless movement of products in compliance with export regulations and project demands. If you possess in-depth knowledge of export legislation, excellent communication skills, and the ability to maintain high standards of compliance and efficiency, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity.

Responsibilities:

• To liaise and work closely with our export control team, local customs officers, and freight forwarders.
• To deliver a benchmark export and shipping service to the business.
• Timely delivery of product in line with project demands.
• Creation, completion, and management of documentation required to effect export deliveries, to include, transport documents, hazardous goods note, customs formalities etc.
• Ensure topicality of Export Register, Transport Registers, Hazardous Goods Register.
• Arrange UK and International transport movements. This also includes liaising closely with Security and Export control departments.
• Assist Export Control Department in compliance with regards to Export Licences.
• Maintain topicality with all transport legislation up to and including prohibited weapons level.
• Identify process improvements to create an efficient and cost-effective service.
• Day to day knowledge of all movements from site.
• General day to day housekeeping, ensuring any required administrative duties are completed for each shipment, ensuring we are audit compliant at all times.
• Keeping up to date with the archiving and scanning.
• Promotion of functional excellence.
• The successful candidate would be expected to undertake Known consignor training and remain compliant to the controls put in place.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Detailed knowledge of export legislation.

• Ability to adapt style of communication to ensure effective delivery of service.
• Interpersonal skills across different business functions.
• Strength of character not to deviate from process when other demands conflict.
• A strong communicator (both written and verbal) with attention to detail.
• Organised with excellent time management skills.
• Able to prioritise and work to deadlines without supervision.

Morson is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy.