SPIE Oil and Gas Services (part of the SPIE Group) provides a complete range of services to some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies through its network of offices in 25 countries across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
SPIE Oil and Gas is recruiting to fill the following positions:
Senior Shipping Officer
Job Specifications:
Full Time
Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND
Location: Lagos | Nigeria.
Job Description:
- Attend to all Import shipping documentation (Air & Sea) activities.
- Global import logistics cargo planning and liaison {Air & Sea} with foreign suppliers/manufacturers/forwarders at origin to delivery in Company approved facilities in Nigeria.
- Ensure proper guidance in International Shipping matters to all parties, and ensure Forwarding and Shipping arrangements, in line with best practice and optimum efficiency.
- Advise and ensure strict compliance on Shipping documentation (Air & Sea) requirements and procedures in line with international and Nigerian Standard shipping policies.
- Ensure timely pre-alert documentations are received from source.
- Ensure proper regularization, amendment/correction are effected on pre-alert documents by forwarders/foreign suppliers before approval is given and cargo is shipped from source.
- Properly collate all necessary and complete set of received and approved import shipping (Air and Sea) documents and forward application to Government approved Inspection agencies for RAR approval/issuance.
- Liaison with various Government agencies for import/export activities where required.
- Participate in developing shipping strategy in co-operation with other members of the transit team taking into account the eventual synergy plans on dedicated projects.
- Propose improvement and generation of the shipping section procedures and policies to the Manager.
- Ensure maintenance of Database for tracking all shipments
- Monitor shipping trends on the international scene
- Data analysis and reporting.
- Prepare weekly /monthly reports as appropriate.
Qualifications and Requirements:
- A graduate of any Social Science discipline with at least 8 years’ experience in international trade / shipping in similar activities.
- Good inter-personal skills. Good computing software skills.
