Shipping Agent (f/m/d)

Novelis; England; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Novelis as a Shipping Agent in Latchford, England, where you'll manage shipping orders and ensure compliance with legal requirements. Ideal candidates should have logistics experience and be proficient with relevant software like SAP and Excel. Enjoy a supportive work environment with a focus on sustainability and personal development.

Benefits

Pension scheme with matching contributions

25 days of holiday plus bank holidays

Sabbatical offer

Employer liability coverage

Bike leasing program

Individual training programs

Qualifications

• Experience within a shipping environment, logistics, or international transport.
• Excellent computer skills, especially in MS Office and Excel.
• Willingness to learn and develop within an innovative company.

Responsibilities

• Processing and scheduling of shipping orders and relevant control.
• Compliance with legal requirements and customs handling.
• Close cooperation with other departments and monitoring of deliveries.

Skills

Logistics experience

Computer skills (MS Office, Excel)

Knowledge of customs and foreign trade law

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Logistics software

Job description

Position Overview

Who we are

Novelis is driven by its purpose to shape a sustainable world together.

As a global leader in innovative products and services and the world's largest recycler of aluminum, we partner with customers in the automotive, beverage can, aerospace and specialties industries to deliver solutions that improve the benefits of balanced lightweight aluminum.

We have a coordinated network of technically sophisticated rolling and recycling plants as well as foundries across 32 facilities in 9 countries throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia with 13.190 employees worldwide. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, USA.

Our customers include some of the largest and best-known brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Ford, BMW, Jaguar Land Rover, Airbus, Boeing, Nespresso, Samsung, and others. In addition, Novelis is leading the industry with its sustainability and recycling efforts.

Become part of our mission to create a sustainable world and start as soon as possible at our location in Latchford as:

Shipping Agent (f/m/d)

Responsibilities & Qualifications

What awaits you:

• Processing and scheduling of shipping orders by truck, rail, sea and air freight, and relevant control and execution of import / export activities
• Compliance with legal requirements and framework conditions
• Knowledge of customs and foreign trade law
• Creation and provision of all documents required for shipping: delivery notes packing lists, forwarding and transport orders, labels, certificates, postal papers, customs papers, invoices (using SAP)
• Advise the shipments to the respective forwarding agents and plan the freight space
• Monitoring the timely and appropriate order processing
• Preparation of papers for rail transport; web applications, Transporeon & NEWS (In House System)
• Handling of customs formalities and handling of customs filing
• Ensure compliance with the stipulated provisions for letters of credit
• Obtaining and evaluating offers for air and sea freight and processing of the respective freight documents in accordance with the specifications of the IMS system
• Handling of special transports (spools, retrievals from consignment warehouses, contract finishers, empty pallets etc)
• Document scrap outgoings and draw up the associated freight documents
• Check / arrange / confirm freight cost invoice/credit
• Memo procedures for forwarding services based on transport orders
• Close cooperation with other departments, especially planning, quality, sales, packaging, loading
• Monitoring plans -v- actual quantities delivered
• Escalation of process deviations, work to resolve with internal and external partners
• Daily control on inventories and initiation of inventory reduction measures with the framework of the specifications
• Develop, update and monitor the daily and weekly KPIs

How you convince us:

• You have experience within the shipping environment, logistics, international transport or equivalent
• You have excellent computer skills such as MS Office, especially Excel
• Knowledge of SAP, Power BI and logistics software are an advantage
• You work excellently in a team with dynamism, proactivity and initiative manners
• You are willing to learn and develop within an innovative, global company

What Novelis offers you:

#leisuretime: Time for personal activities and relaxation is essential! Enjoy a 37-hour work week and 25 days of holiday plus 8 bank holidays

#pensionplan: Your future matters to us! Enjoy a company pension scheme with matching contribution by Novelis, ensuring your financial security

#timeout: Ready to fulfill your dream of traveling the world or taking an extended break? We support you with our sabbatical offer!

#health: We prioritize your security and well-being! Benefit from our employer liability coverage and occupational health, including frequent check-ups. Enjoy our Employee Assistance Programme with a telephone number for external advice

#bikeleasing: Need a fresh breeze, not just at work? Take advantage of the bike leasing program for a refreshing ride

#development: Eager to enhance your knowledge and skills? Our individual training programs are designed to help you reach your full potential

Have we caught your interest?

Then become part of our team! We are looking forward to your application!

You can apply easily with your resume via our application system in less than 5 minutes.

Please note that postal applications cannot be processed and considered.

We live diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation, and identity.

Location Profile

The Novelis Latchford plant a suburb of Warrington Cheshire in England employs approximately 200 employees. It is one of Europe’s largest aluminium used beverage cans recycling plants and Europe’s largest closed-loop recycling operation for automotive aluminium rolled products with an annual recycling capacity of up to 195000 tonnes. The plant is an essential part of Novelis’ European production and collaborated with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to create the first closed-loop system in Europe with a dedicated railway service to efficiently deliver aluminium between Novelis and JLR’s production site in the UK.

The Latchford plant is committed to its community in supporting math and science education to local schools as well as sharing the value of safety and works with a local charitable foundation to sponsoring health. In addition Novelis UK supports the program “Every Can Counts” to actively promote can recycling across Europe.