Vessel Planner

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize stowage plans to maximize cargo capacity and efficiency, coordinating with stevedores, customers, and vessels.
• Ensure vessel plan is followed for loading and discharging cargo to assure safety, reduce costs, and maximize stowage.
• Maintain consistent communication with customer planners, vessels, and operations to optimize the needs to ensure optimization for the yard plan.
• Work closely and coordinate with terminal operations to ensure timely loading and unloading of containers, maximizing the number of containers scheduled for unloading and re-loading to vessels for departure.
• Monitor vessel schedules and adjust plan based on port conditions and delays.
• Advise management of any operational issues that would impact productivity.
• Communicate with shipping lines and stakeholders to provide updates and resolve issues.
• Monitor advance planning activities prior to the vessel docking to ensure safe operations, and coordinate and verify that all labor has been gathered for adequate and efficient operations.
• Analyze data to improve planning processes and enhance operations performance.
• Ensure that all health, safety, and security protocols are enforced and observed in all Company’s activities to protect the employees and the public.
• Complies with all applicable laws and relevant industry standards of practice and commits to the continuous improvement of HSSE management practices.
• Provides strong visible commitment, leadership, and personal involvement in health, safety, security, and the environment and makes available the resources necessary to achieve our HSSE objectives.
• Ensures activities and duties are consistent with policies on SQF and FSMA.