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Requirements:
- Relevant diploma and/or qualification.
- Previous experience in a logistics/dispatch role, ideally within an Equipment manufacturing or export environment.
- Experience coordinating trucking and transport, including export loads.
- Experience in loading of industrial equipment onto trucks.
- Familiarity with cross-border/export documentation (e.g. customs clearance documents, delivery notes, packing lists).
- Experience working directly with transporters and clearing agents.
- Physically capable and willing to be hands-on with loading and securing goods on trucks.
Responsibilities:
- Plan and schedule the loading of stainless-steel vessels, process plant components, and project work onto trucks.
- Coordinate loading sequence and timing with workshop production and project programmes to meet delivery deadlines.
- Maintain a load tracking schedule/dashboard visible to relevant staff across the company, showing the status of each load.
- Act as the direct point of contact between the company, transporters, and clearing agents.
- Source and negotiate pricing with transporters for local and cross-border loads.
- Liaise with clearing agents on documentation and customs requirements for export shipments.
- Build and maintain relationships with reliable transporters to ensure consistent availability and service levels.
- Track and follow up on all loads from dispatch through to delivery.
- Keep the load tracking schedule/dashboard updated in real time so status is visible company wide.
- Proactively flag delays, breakdowns, or documentation issues that could affect delivery timelines.
- Prepare and manage cross-border documentation required for export shipments.
- Compile and issue loading documents, delivery notes, and packing lists for each dispatch.
- Ensure all documentation is accurate and complete before trucks depart, to avoid delays at border posts.
- Be physically present and hands-on during the loading of trucks â this is a hands-on logistics and dispatch role, not an office-based position.
- Assist with the physical loading of stainless-steel vessels and equipment onto trucks.
- Ensure all items are correctly tied down, strapped, and secured for transport, checking load security before departure.
- Ensure loads comply with legal and safety requirements for weight distribution and securing.
- Be responsible for on-site logistics, including the forklift movement of materials, vessels, and other items as per Production’s requirements.
- Coordinate with Production on the timing and priority of on-site movements, so that materials and vessels are where they are needed when they are needed.
Please note that if you do not receive a response within 2 weeks, your application has been unsuccessful.
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