About the role

  • Leiter Versand managing shipping operations for machinery manufacturing company in hybrid environment. Leading team and ensuring compliance with shipping regulations and processes.

Responsibilities

  • Disciplinary and technical leadership of the department (commercial shipping, small-parts shipping, machine packaging and mailroom)
  • Responsible for staff management and development
  • Monitoring, control and continuous improvement of departmental processes
  • Assuming customs responsibility and coordination within the shipping area
  • Organizing large machine shipments, special orders and transports
  • Coordinating cooperation with freight forwarders and external service providers
  • Managing internal packaging processes and overseeing external packaging orders
  • Responsibility for regulatory reporting
  • Developing, implementing and monitoring measures to improve quality and productivity
  • Ensuring compliance with environmental and occupational safety regulations

Requirements

  • Completed commercial vocational training with professional experience in international shipping/logistics
  • Management experience
  • Professional experience in mechanical engineering desirable
  • Solid knowledge of export and customs matters as well as international trade (ATLAS export declaration, rules of origin, tariff classification, Incoterms)
  • Confident user of MS Office and SAP (or a comparable ERP system)
  • Good English skills (spoken and written)
  • Strong leadership skills, resilience and flexibility
  • Systematic, independent and goal-oriented working style
  • High degree of self-motivation and initiative

Benefits

  • Secure position with a modern, well-equipped workplace in an internationally operating company
  • Attractive location with excellent transport links
  • Comprehensive, hands-on onboarding
  • Varied responsibilities and short communication channels
  • Open corporate culture and a collegial working atmosphere
  • Performance-based compensation
  • Collective agreement benefits (Christmas/holiday bonuses, 30 days of vacation, etc.)
  • Flexible working-time model where possible, family-friendly structures, an attractive remuneration package and additional company benefits (flexitime, company canteen, on-site childcare, health programs, employee discounts, events, etc.)
  • A genuine sense of team in an internationally focused company with flat hierarchies

Job title

Head of Shipping

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Tech skills

Location requirements

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