Our client is a provider or worldwide shipping solutions, and they are currently looking for a Sea Freight Import Clerk to join their team in Basildon.
As a Sea Freight Import Clerk, you’ll be dealing with companies worldwide, liaising with overseas agents / customers / hauliers, handling all aspects of imports from start to finish and everything in between, including charging files and processing purchase invoices.
We’d love to speak to enthusiastic people who have experience working as an Import Clerk or with customs entry knowledge from a logistics / freight background.
Successful Sea Freight Import Clerks have a good operational know-how of import procedures, excellent customer service skills and commercial sense. You’ll be a proficient communicator; in person, on the phone and in writing.
Duties of the Sea Freight Import Clerk:
- Liaising with overseas agents / customers / hauliers
- Receiving pre-alerts from overseas agents
- Creating files both manually and on the computer system
- Advising customers of arrival of cargo into the UK
- Planning loads and sending load lists to agents
- Checking manifests once received
- Receiving and checking relevant import documentation and passing on to shipping lines
- Planning and arranging deliveries
If you’ve got what it takes to be a successful Sea Freight Import Clerk, please apply immediately. Jobs are being filled very quickly at the moment!