About the position
We are urgently looking for Process Controller in 3 various location locations: Angola, Congo and Point Noir.
JOB SUMMARY
- Take responsibility for productive yard planning, with due consideration to Gate, Rail, ITT, load and discharge operations.
- Take responsibility for efficient and highly productive vessel planning with due consideration to the vessel stability and safety under load and discharge
- Plan and monitor the execution of loading and discharging sequence for rail
- Ensure that equipments are assigned in the correct way and utilized to achieve high productivity.
- Constantly monitor live Gate, Vessel, Rail, ITT and all operations and ensure that the planned operation is effectively executed.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Process Controller – Vessel
- Receiving and uploading relevant EDI files viz vessel profile, BAPLIE, MOVINS/Stowage instruction and any discrepancies that are noticed are informed to VOA and corrected in system after clarification.
- Plan the containers for loading on vessel in the most efficient and productive manner without endangering the vessel’s stability while giving special consideration for high value containers, segregation, lashing forces, containers etc and modify if required to suit to vessel’s/central planner’s special requests.
- Update the work shifts, berth side, crane lists, sequences, hatch covers, lock bins and verify count of discharge/load/restows.
- Assign and position port equipment
- Plan the loading/discharging work queues in twin lift/dual cycle mode, and adjust the sequence to avoid yard clashing, yard shifting & TT congestion if necessary while activating jobs in the sequential manner.
- Take all necessary prints of discharge/load stow plans, scan plans, discharge sequence lists, work lists, restow lists, discharge recaps and hand it over to execution team for distributing it to wharf/deck checkers.
- Continuously monitor the vessel operations. Predict clashes/congestions and take necessary steps proactively.
- Monitor real time updation and keep a continuous check on overstows, slow operations, and report discrepancies to facilitate corrective action.
- Ensure delays/breakdowns are updated in the shift change report and notified to execution team.
- Plan additional/roll over/POD changed/status changed containers as and when required
- Send the vessel’s approved final plan along with hard copies to all relevant stake holders
- Ensure that over landed, short landed, short shipped, extra re-stows are communicated to vessel operator, cargo control & team.
Process Controller - Yard
- Ensure that all containers move within the yard are properly planned & stacked in the assigned position to achieve the desire yard pattern in order to reach maximum productivity and efficiency while also meeting the desired KPIs.
- Ensure that all necessary equipments are correctly placed in the yard and jobs are effectively allocated to meet the targeted productivity.
- Giving export allocations for each service as per yard
- Providing best pick list to gate for deliveries & monitoring gate activities (intake & deliveries)
- Make the recaps as needed to segregate by service, outbound carrier, POD, Size/type to compare the containers count to be discharged against yard space available at different blocks and provide to the execution team at frequent interval
- Indicate the yard layout for the areas reserved for the containers creating & readjusting allocation groups & allocation range as need for different vessel.
- House keeping of containers is done whenever required
Process Controller - Rail
- Coordinate with team for effective utilization of equipments for meeting the targets.
- Plan on FIFO basis and forward the discharge/load plans to rail supervisor.
- Allocate the RTGs for rail operation and dispatch the work instructions to them
- Monitor the rail activities through real time updation to achieve highest productivity
- Update the rail log for the rail arrival/departure and commence/complete timings, breakdowns and report to execution team when required.
- Plan the housekeeping from cy to rail yard and vise-versa
Qualifications, Experience and Language Skills:
- Degree / Diploma or equivalent
- At least 3 years of relevant experience in related field and container shipping industry
- Intermediate English – both in Oral and written
Desired Skills:
- Equipment Operation
- Logistics
- Operations
- Shipping
