APM Terminals recruits 01 Senior Planner

APM Terminals recruits 01 Senior Planner

APM Terminals

Lagos, Nigeria

Senior Planner
NigeriaLagosLocalTerminalOperations/EngineeringLast application date: 8/7/2021
At APM Terminals, we are a team of over 20,000 employees spread across more than 60 countries united by a passion to provide our expertise in port operations and container management services. By providing the expertise and port infrastructure essential to world trade, we actively support the advancement of the societies around us, enabling local economies to unlock their potential and build an even stronger global community. Working with a team of talented professionals you will get a chance to experience different cultures and make friends all over the world. You’ll find a culturally diverse, stimulating environment at any of our offices, terminals or depots. When you join APM Terminals, the world is your workplace.
APM Terminals is an independent business unit within the Danish Maersk Group – a Global Fortune 500 company with about 89,000 employees and offices in 130 countries with global growth opportunities in a range of fields from shipping and energy to our offshore and manufacturing industries – Join us to achieve even your most ambitious career goals!
We offer• APM Terminals offers tremendous growth, career and leadership opportunities for those with the ambition, drive and dedication to become one of the best.
• An opportunity to be part of a high performance team that ensures APM Terminals is the most efficient, safe and profitable terminals in the region.
• Working with partners, shareholders, authorities and other stakeholders.
Key responsibilities• Track upcoming vessels in berth schedule and monitor vessel planning preparations.• Coordinate and communicate with SPC (Shade Planning Center) for advance planning.• Review scheduled vessel plan well in advance and analysis planning quality including cargo availability, routing, requirement and rollover.• Monitor cargo consolidation and EDI upload/download in time.• Confirm vessel structure and planning details updates and records (Stack weight, hatch cover, lashing gears, DG/Reefer locations and other remarks).• Upon submitting of vessel plan by SPC, review plan integrity, crane deployment, job distribution, yard picking, sequencing, special stowage, yard clashes and revert to SPC if required to rearrange vessel plan.• Increase opportunity of dual cycling and twin lift to optimize cargo operation.• Guide and direct vessel planners to manage vessel operation.• Review MT routing and requirement with cargo controller well in advance, ensure MT stowage and planning from SPC.• Communicate and coordinate with Chief officer/vessel planner/ local agent to manage any exceptional situation in vessel plan and cargo operation.• Act as communication focal point in vessel planning.• Upon completion of vessel cargo operation, collect all vessel documents from vessel planner review the documents and validate in TOS.• Once validated departed vessel files communicate to cargo controller to generate TDR/TPR.• Review TDR/TPR to confirm vessel exchanges and activities prior submitting for billing.• Responsible to answer customer Queries, complaint and claims.• Review and revert, if any validation requirement from billing/customer service.• Manage vessel files and archives for future validation.• Any task assigned by superior to improve terminal performance and optimization.
We are looking for• High school diploma plus a college degree in Logistics, Operations Management, or related discipline.• Requires at least 2 or more years of previous experience as a vessel planner for a container terminal operation. Previous experience as a Planning Controller in a container terminal environment will be an advantage.• Requires very good knowledge of container vessel stowage and stability criteria.• Requires good knowledge of yard lay-out and operating techniques.• Requires good knowledge of TOS vessel planning systems and its Modules.• Preferable if applicant has certificate in hazardous cargo handling.• Has familiarity with the strict implementation of international standards of safe working practices within marine, stevedoring and terminal operations.
CRITICAL SKILLS• Planning and organizational skills.• Lean knowledge and leadership• Time management• Communication skill• Problem solver mindset• Team worker• CollaborationPOSTULER