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Logistics and Customs Coordinator
About this role
A Logistics and Customs Coordinator is sought by an LNG company in Abuja. The role involves managing shipment trackers, planning LNG dispatches and customer deliveries, and coordinating with freight forwarders, customs brokers, and port terminals to prevent delays. It requires handling offloading, inspections, and documentation accuracy, as well as planning heavy-haul movements and ensuring compliance with procedures and costs. The position targets professionals with extensive import logistics and customs clearance experience in Nigeria. The employer is Benmaris Limited, an LNG company, offering a full-time contract role in Abuja.
What you would do
- Maintain a shipment-by-shipment tracker covering vessel, port, documents, insurance, customs status and delivery dates
- Prepare the future LNG dispatch and customer delivery logistics plan
- Keep procurement expediting logs and track long-lead items, spares and tools
- Coordinate shipping agents, freight forwarders, customs brokers, port terminals and insurers
- Coordinate safe offloading, receiving checks, damage and shortage reporting and secure storage
- Plan port-to-Ajaokuta heavy-haul movements including route surveys, permits, escorts and contingencies
- Verify and reconcile shipping and customs documents to purchase orders and equipment registers
- Ensure compliance with Nigerian customs procedures, Incoterms and shipping documentation
- Manage relationships with freight forwarders, customs brokers and transport contractors
- Monitor cost control and documentation accuracy within anti-bribery standards
What they are asking for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, Business or a related field
- 5+ years of import logistics and customs clearance experience in Nigeria, preferably with project cargo or heavy-lift movements
- Strong knowledge of Nigerian customs procedures, Incoterms and shipping documentation
- Experience managing freight forwarders, customs brokers and transport contractors
- Attention to documentation, cost control and compliance including anti-bribery standards
- Membership of CILT or a similar professional body is an advantage
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