Shipping Administrator

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**Location**:Holly Road, Skegness

**Job Title**:Shipping Administrator (maternity cover)

**Job Type**:12 months, full Time

**Hours of Work**:Monday to Friday 8.00am to 4.00pm (with half an hour unpaid break)

**Salary Range**:£28,000 - £32,000 (dependent on qualifications and experience)

**Introduction**

Micronclean, based in Lincolnshire, are one of the UK’s largest providers of workwear solutions and cleanroom consumables, employing over 450 people. Our passion is to be the first to develop new technological solutions that change the shape of the markets we serve creating quality and efficiency for our customers.

The company’s key markets are the supply and processing of specialist workwear to cleanroom (pharmaceutical, medical, aerospace) and manufacturing (steel making, engineering, automotive) organisations. The company also manufactures and distributes an extensive range of cleanroom consumable products worldwide. The company has an ambitious and clear growth vision and has built its first factory outside of the UK in India.

**Job Role and Key Responsibilities**

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and developing Shipping Administrator to join the business at an exciting stage in its growth plans. Demand for our products and services are currently unprecedented and therefore there is substantial scope for personal development and wider experience gain.

This is a new role within the business and is a fantastic opportunity for the individual to ensure the smooth running of the order process and shipping to our international customers, proactively find the most cost effective and efficient way to export goods and obtaining freight charges and quoting these to our customers along with preparing all the documentation required.

The role’s key responsibilities include:

- Cost effective and professional shipping of consumables to our international customers.
- Co-ordination between customers, warehouse and other internal departments.
- Prioritisation of shipments and negotiating freight rates including customs and duties.
- Completing all relevant shipping paperwork and maintaining the ERP system with HS codes etc.
- Manage sales orders, shipments and monitor delivery performance to ensure a high level of customer service.

**Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications required**:
**Essential**
- Good knowledge of export shipment documentation, freight charges, HS code, customs and incoterms
- Previous shipping experience preferred.
- Excellent attention to detail
- Prioritisation and good organisation skills essential
- Good IT skills in the use of Microsoft Office and ERP system
- Full, valid UK/EU driving license.

**Character Profile**

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**_ Interview date: Provisionally 26_**_th_**_ & 27th March 2024 (exact date TBC)_**

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**Why Work for Micronclean as a temporary Shipping Administrator?**

There are many reasons to join the Micronclean family, but here are just a few more:

- A generous yearly bonus paid every January, to all staff.
- 30 days’ annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing to 33 days for loyalty service.
- Company Sick Pay scheme.
- Company pension contributions of 5% of salary.
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), private counselling and other schemes to support employees with their mental health and wellbeing.
- Annual Family Fun Days, fully paid for by the business.
- A growing, family owned, highly successful business, with a history spanning back to the 1920s.
- Highly committed to investing in people and training, with a proven history of opportunities and promotions from within for employees who wish to progress.
- A great culture, represented in our company values known as the SKIEs.
- The knowledge that you are making a difference, playing a role in key supply chains such as the Covid-19 vaccine.

**About Micronclean**

Micronclean is a family-owned business based in Lincolnshire employing over 400 people. The company provides products and services to various industries.

Our current focus areas include rental of specialist work wear to cleanroom industries (pharmaceutical, medical devices, aerospace), and of protective workwear to manufacturing industries (engineering, automotive). The company also manufactures and distributes a range of cleanroom products, which it sells in the UK and exports throughout Europe and further afield, including India, Australia, and Canada.

The company has an ambitious vision for growth both in the UK where we are investing in all our plants and abroad. where our plant in Bangalore, India has recently been commissioned and is supporting the production of Covid-19 vaccines in India.

More information about Micronclean can be found on our website.