Shipping Coordinator

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Shipping Coordinator within the SGT Shipping department, you will support the end-to-end movement of goods across domestic and international markets, ensuring shipments are processed accurately, compliantly and on time.

You will coordinate a wide range of shipments, from spare parts and tooling through to major gas turbine packages weighing more than 70 tonnes. Your role will involve preparing import and export documentation, booking freight, working with logistics providers and managing customs and dangerous goods requirements across road, sea and air.

Working closely with Customs, Export Control, internal teams and external freight partners, you will help resolve shipping issues, maintain compliance and support the reliable delivery of customer projects.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Prepare and process import and export documentation using SAP, ensuring compliance with UK and international customs requirements.
• Produce, validate and manage trade documentation including Certificates of Origin, shipment requests and supporting customs paperwork.
• Coordinate daily shipments, verify manifests and prepare documentation to support timely collections by approved freight forwarders.
• Book road, sea and air transport, including specialist handling for out-of-gauge and heavy cargo weighing more than 70 tonnes.
• Manage Dangerous Goods shipments in line with relevant ADR, IMDG and IATA requirements while liaising with Customs and Export Control teams to resolve compliance issues.
• Audit shipping invoices, investigate errors, track proof of delivery and contribute to corrective actions and continuous improvement across shipping processes.

What You Bring

• Previous experience within shipping, freight forwarding, transport, logistics or international trade, ideally within a customer-facing or operational environment.
• Good knowledge of import and export processes, customs documentation and international shipping requirements.
• Experience working with freight forwarders and coordinating road, sea or air shipments.
• Knowledge of Dangerous Goods transportation requirements, including ADR, IMDG or IATA, with relevant certification highly desirable.
• Experience using SAP ERP or a similar logistics system, alongside good Microsoft Office skills.
• Strong communication, organisation and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal teams, customs functions and external logistics partners.

About the Team

Our Gas Services division offers low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. We bring together gas turbines, steam turbines, generators and digital service solutions under one roof. Through modernization, digitalization and innovative service offerings, we support customers worldwide in improving reliability, efficiency and sustainability.

You will join the SGT Shipping team, supporting the movement of components, tooling and major gas turbine equipment while working closely with logistics providers, Customs, Export Control and other internal functions to ensure compliant and on-time delivery.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably.

The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy:

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Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fuelled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character, no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• 26 days holiday, increasing to 29 days with time served.
• Access to a flexible benefits portal, including private medical cover and cycle-to-work schemes.
• A class-leading adjustable pension scheme.
• Career development and continuous learning opportunities.
• The opportunity to work with complex international logistics, including major gas turbine shipments and specialist heavy cargo.