About the Role
A Snapshot of Your Day
As a Shipping Coordinator within our Small Gas Turbine (SGT) business, you'll play a key role in ensuring our products reach customers in more than 90 countries safely, compliantly, and on time. Working as part of a collaborative and supportive team, you'll coordinate the movement of parts, tooling, engines, and complete gas turbine packages while ensuring all import and export activities meet customs regulations and customer expectations.
You'll work closely with freight forwarders, customs specialists, internal stakeholders, and third-party logistics providers to deliver an excellent customer experience. If you enjoy problem solving, building relationships, and working in a fast-paced international environment, this is an opportunity to make a real impact while developing your career within a global engineering organisation.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Coordinate import and export shipments, ensuring customs compliance, preparing export documentation, certificates of origin, Dangerous Goods paperwork where required, and processing manual shipment requests.
- Manage daily shipping activities by checking invoice accuracy, preparing shipment manifests, booking collections with approved freight forwarders, and supporting the preparation of customer shipments through third-party packaging providers.
- Monitor shipments from despatch through to delivery, tracking proof of delivery, investigating shipping discrepancies, and resolving issues to ensure excellent customer service.
- Build strong relationships with freight forwarders, customs specialists, export control teams, and internal stakeholders to support the timely delivery of customer projects.
- Operate ERP systems and freight forwarder booking platforms to accurately process shipments while ensuring departmental processes and customs regulations are consistently followed.
- Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to optimise shipping processes while supporting the wider team during periods of increased business demand.
What You Bring
- Experience in a customer-facing shipping, logistics, freight forwarding, or international transport environment.
- Good understanding of import and export documentation, UK customs requirements, international shipping regulations, and Incoterms such as FCA and DAP.
- Experience using ERP systems, ideally SAP, alongside strong Microsoft Office skills and freight forwarder booking tools.
- Knowledge of Dangerous Goods regulations and experience coordinating oversized or out-of-gauge shipments would be advantageous.
- Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- A proactive, collaborative approach with excellent communication skills and a commitment to delivering outstanding customer service.
About the Team
Our Gas Services division offers low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. We bring together gas turbines, steam turbines, generators, and digital service solutions under one roof. Through modernization, digitalization, and innovative service offerings, we help customers worldwide improve reliability, efficiency, and sustainability.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With approximately 100,000 dedicated employees across more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring the growing global demand for energy is met reliably and sustainably.
The technologies developed in our research centres and manufacturing facilities contribute to around one sixth of the world's electricity generation. Together, we are driving the energy transition through innovation, decarbonization, and digital transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy:
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Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fuelled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character, no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards/Benefits
- 26 days holiday, increasing to 29 days with time served.
- Access to a flexible benefits portal, including private medical cover and cycle-to-work schemes.
- A class-leading adjustable pension scheme.
- Career development and continuous learning opportunities.
- A supportive and inclusive working environment where your contributions are valued.
- The opportunity to work on innovative projects helping shape the future of energy.
