Container and Logistics Coordinator

Team Recruitment; Auckland; On-site; NZD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Team Recruitment (Oxford) Limited in Auckland is seeking a depot-based freight coordinator. You will manage import container movements from arrival to delivery, coordinating with carriers, shipping lines and customers to keep freight moving.

The role requires familiarity with transshipment tracking, PortConnect, and ensuring accurate billing and MPI documentation, with on-site duties and occasional weekend support.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating import container movements and transshipment tracking.
• Ability to liaise with carriers, shipping lines and customers to resolve delays.
• Strong Excel skills with VLOOKUPs and accurate record-keeping.
• Familiarity with PortConnect, CHEP or MPI paperwork is useful.

Responsibilities

• Track import containers through transshipment and arrival using PortConnect, and keep shipment records up to date
• Coordinate container releases, cartage and coastal moves, keeping an eye on vessel cut-offs and updating customers when plans change.
• Reconcile CHEP pallets, keep billing records accurate and handle MPI documentation.
• This is a depot-based role, with high-vis and work boots required on site. You'll also provide occasional weekend phone cover for urgent site issues.

Skills

Freight coordination / dispatch

Carrier & customer liaison

Excel (VLOOKUP)

Import container knowledge

Tools

PortConnect

MPI paperwork

CHEP paperwork

Job description

Know your way around import containers and what to do when a shipment gets held up? You'll coordinate container movements from arrival through to delivery, working with carriers, shipping lines and customers to keep freight moving. Joina small, practical depot team within a larger freight business. Imports are the main focus, with coastal movements and pallet control adding variety to your day.

What you'll be doing

• Track import containers through transshipment and arrival using PortConnect, and keep shipment records up to date
• Coordinate container releases, cartage and coastal moves, keeping an eye on vessel cut-offs and updating customers when plans change.
• Reconcile CHEP pallets, keep billing records accurate and handle MPI documentation.
• This is a depot-based role, with high-vis and work boots required on site. You'll also provide occasional weekend phone cover for urgent site issues.

What you'll bring

• Freight coordination or dispatch experience involving import containers, including an understanding of transshipment tracking.
• Confidence dealing with carriers, shipping lines and customers, especially when you need to sort out a delay.
• Good Excel skills, including VLOOKUPs, and the attention to detail to keep records accurate on a busy day.
• Experience with PortConnect, CHEP or MPI paperwork would be useful. Training is available if you need to gain MPI accreditation.

What's in it for you

Your manager will work alongside you as you get to know the operation. Once you're up to speed, you'll have room to manage your own workload. There's scope to learn other systems and build experience across the wider business.

Eligibility

You must currently be based in New Zealand and already have the right to work here. Visa sponsorship is unavailable for this role.