Shipping Officer Job at SPIE Oil & Gas Services

SPIE Oil & 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.

Our turnover has more than doubled in the last few years thanks to the dedication of our 4,000 employees to whom we give training, recognition, and genuine opportunities for career development. In order to support this growth, SPIE Oil & Gas Services is always seeking talented individuals to join its teams.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Shipping Officer

Job Reference: 2024-36813   
Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• 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, are in line with best practices 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.
• 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 the Database for tracking all shipments.
• Monitor shipping trends on the international scene.
• 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.
• Data analysis and reporting.
• Prepare weekly /monthly reports as appropriate.
• Carry out any other duties that may be assigned by the Hierarchy

Profile

• A graduate of any Social Science discipline with at least 4 years of experience in international trade/shipping in similar activities.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Good computing software skills.