Air Freight Coordinator

About this role

Shipping, Freight & Customs moves the goods: carrier relationships, bookings, documentation, customs clearance, chartering and vessel operations.

Move the urgent and the high-value by air: airline bookings, air waybills, build-up, and the special handling that dangerous or temperature-controlled cargo needs.

This is the part of trade that happens in the physical world and refuses to be tidy. Vessels get omitted, containers get held for examination, a wrong container number on a bill of lading stops a consignment at the gate, and demurrage accrues while somebody argues. The work is judged on landed cost and on how few surprises reach the buyer.

Primary responsibilities

• Book and manage air freight shipments to the schedule
• Prepare the air waybill and the accompanying documentation correctly
• Handle dangerous goods to IATA requirements where the shipment includes them, with the certification that requires
• Manage chargeable weight, which is volumetric as often as it is actual, and quote accordingly
• Coordinate with airlines, ground handlers and customs, and chase what is sitting

Skills required

Day to day this role works with Coordination, Air Freight, AWB and Dangerous Goods.

• Two or more years in air freight
• IATA dangerous goods certification an advantage
• Air waybill preparation and accompanying documentation
• IATA dangerous goods certification where shipments require it
• Chargeable weight calculation, volumetric as often as actual
• Coordinating with airlines, ground handlers and customs