Import Clerk

An experienced Import Clerk is required to join our client, an independent Freight Forwarding company based in Felixstowe, who provide worldwide Shipping services.

As an Import Clerk, you will be working on their Sea Freight team, dealing with companies worldwide, liaising with overseas agents / customers / hauliers, handling all aspects of imports from start to finish and everything in between.

**Other duties of the Import Clerk:
**- Receiving pre-alerts from overseas agents
- Creating files both manually and on the computer system
- Advising customers of arrival of cargo into the UK
- Planning loads and sending load lists to agents
- Checking manifests once received
- Receiving and checking relevant import documentation and passing on to shipping lines
- Planning and arranging deliveries

To be a successful Import Clerk, you will have a good operational know-how of import procedures, excellent customer service skills and commercial sense. You will also be a proficient communicator; in person, on the phone and in writing.
We’d love to speak to enthusiastic people who have experience working as an Import Clerk / Import Operator/ Import Coordinator, etc. from a Freight / Logistics background.

Contact us today.

As recruiters specialising in freight and shipping, Red Recruit have vacancies at all levels within the industry, so please do get in touch to tell us what you’re looking for and we’ll do our best to assist.
- T&C's apply. Please contact the office for more information.

Please note: - We do not advertise all of our vacancies as some are highly confidential. Therefore, please either submit your CV to us directly or call us in complete confidence.