International Freight Coordinator - Kansas City, United States - eShipping, LLC

Description

Job Description

• A customer-focused attitude and willingness to provide best-in-class service
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Adaptability
• High drive
• Ability to solve complex problems
• Willingness to learn
• Industry experience is great but not required

What we offer:

• Hybrid work schedule following initial training. Work from home two days per week
• A foot in the door Learn the Logistics industry and seize opportunities for advancement.
• Convenient schedule; M-F 8:00am-4:30pm.
• Competitive pay and eligibility for health benefits, PTO, and paid holidays from day one.
• Unmatched company culture. We work as a team and care deeply about the work we do. eShipping is not a place for slackers.

Founded in 2004, eShipping is an asset-light, technology-enabled third-party logistics company headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. We provide comprehensive managed transportation and logistics solutions across our clients' entire distribution chains, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises. Our core services include domestic and international transportation management across LTL, TL, Parcel, third-party Warehousing and Distribution, and TMS technology. Our primary focus is people development. eShipping is made up of quality people, striving to maximize our unique potential for the benefit of ourselves, our families, our colleagues, and our communities. We operate under the philosophy that the more we drive our hearts towards a bigger purpose beyond ourselves and our business, the better we will serve all with whom we come in contact. We believe in creating a life lived well and are inspired by the notion that how you get there matters.

Position Summary

The International Freight Coordinator ensures the proper and timely movement of international ocean and/or air freight and information, while complying with internal and external requirements and providing exceptional customer service.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Create import and/or export bookings with carriers

• Coordinate freight movement activities with overseas agents, local carriers and other vendors

• Generate and create shipping documents

• Accurate and timely completion of action items assigned by International Freight Supervisor

• Follow compliance SOPs to maintain compliance with FMC, US CBP, US Census etc

• Distribute items that come into International email inbox

• Other administrative duties as assigned

Specific Department Responsibilities

• Develop an awareness of US and international ocean and air import and export laws and regulations

Required Skills and Abilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to work independently while balancing appropriate collaboration with leadership oversight

• Ability to effectively interact with other employees of the organization

• Excellent time management, and prioritization skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills in person and via phone

• Excellent follow‐through and detail orientation

• Able to effectively utilize computer programs including Word and Excel and transportation management system

Minimum Education and Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to remain in a stationary position for at least 50% of the time. The employee needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc. The general level of physical activity would be defined as sedentary. The employee is regularly required to operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, telephone, copy machine, and printer. Some movements of the hands, arms, and wrists may involve repetitive motions. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to detect, determine, perceive, identify, recognize, judge, observe, inspect, estimate, and assess various activities and surroundings.

• Cognitive/Mental Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to comprehend and use basic language, either written or spoken, to communicate simple and complex information, ideas, and information. The employee is also required to use logic to define problems, collect information, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, interpret information, and deal with abstract variables for unique or unfamiliar situations. The employee must use problem‐solving skills to formulate and apply appropriate courses of action for routine or familiar situations. The employee may be required to perform numerical operations including basic counting, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing or more complex quantitative calculations.

• Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is inside a central heat and air‐conditioned office building. The noise level in the work environment is minimal.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of an employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

eShipping LLC is an equal opportunity employer.