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Logistics & Customs Coordinator
About this role
Benmaris Limited is a Nigerian company providing manpower, financial consulting and general contracting services. The role focuses on managing shipment and customs activities, including tracking, document verification, coordinating agents and ensuring timely delivery for projects and heavy-lift movements. It requires overseeing port-to-site movements, offloading checks, and secure storage, while maintaining procurement logs and planning future LNG dispatches. The position is suited for someone with extensive import logistics and customs clearance experience in Nigeria and familiarity with project cargo. The employer operates across facilities management, procurement, design and build, project management and related engineering work.
What you would do
- Maintain a shipment-by-shipment tracker with vessel, port, documents, insurance, customs status and delivery dates
- Verify and reconcile shipping and customs documents with purchase orders and equipment registers
- Coordinate shipping agents, freight forwarders, customs brokers, port terminals and insurers
- Plan port-to-Ajaokuta heavy-haul movements including route surveys, permits, escorts and contingencies
- Coordinate safe offloading, receiving checks, damage and shortage reporting and secure storage
- Keep procurement expediting logs and track long-lead items, spares and tools
- Prepare future LNG dispatch and customer delivery logistics plan
- Monitor compliance with Nigerian customs procedures and Incoterms
- Manage documentation control and cost monitoring related to logistics
- Assist in risk mitigation to avoid demurrage and delays
What they are asking for
- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, Business or related field
- 5+ years of import logistics and customs clearance experience in Nigeria
- Experience with project cargo or heavy-lift movements is preferred
- 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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