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Transport & Logistics Specialist

Location: Finland
Job ID: R0067376
Date Posted: Dec 4, 2024
Segment: Green Energy & Mobility
Business Unit: Hitachi Energy
Company Name: HITACHI ENERGY FINLAND OY
Profession (Job Category): Customer Service & Contact Center Operations
Job Type (Experience Level): Experienced
Job Schedule: Full time
Remote: No

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Career opportunities in Europe

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader that is committed to solving some of the biggest global challenges of our time by advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We are able to deliver on this great promise because we have great people who everyday work and innovate collaboratively across the globe.

As an employer, we operate in 90 countries with 45,000 people committed to ensuring they thrive and are empowered to deliver their best work as part of our Diversity 360 vision.

Embrace Diversity and Innovation!

Hitachi Energy's Grid & Power Quality Solutions and Service global product group is a world-leading provider of grid connections and power quality solutions that enable our customers to build a more sustainable, flexible, and secure energy system. We leverage our long-standing technology leadership, vast integration expertise, huge installed base, and global footprint to provide our customers with life-cycle value solutions at the lowest risk. Our customers are in the utility, renewables, industry, transportation, data centers, and infrastructure sectors.

Our business in Europe has more than 1,000 skilled professionals focused on critical areas of expertise and is present in 16 countries.

At Grid & Power Quality Solutions and Service Business in Europe (HBUEU), diversity drives our culture of innovation and collaboration. Our leading technology and strong market position enable us to achieve growth targets in the energy transition across current and growing market segments such as hydrogen, data centers, and e-mobility.

Join Our Team now!

We are looking for Transport & Logistics Specialist with a one-year fixed-term employment contract at Hitachi Energy, Grid Integration business unit in Vaasa, Finland.

In this role your main responsibilities are planning project deliveries, booking shipments, and coordinating and handling export/import documents to ensure that the company's operational needs are met. You handle local and international supplier relations daily, and cooperation with internal stakeholders is your core task. Additionally, you will have an interesting and demanding opportunity to renew and develop the processes of the procurement and logistics function.

You might already have experience in transport and logistics, for example as a logistics coordinator in a global business environment. You understand the basics of import and export processes. As a logistics specialist, you are able to understand and manage large and multiple entities in the project world sometimes in a very tight schedule. You will manage a variety of shipments from heavy-lifts to urgent courier shipments and everything in between in all modes of transport including export, import, cross-trade, and domestic transport. You will join a dedicated team of professionals within Supply Chain Management, and you will have colleagues worldwide supporting you in this role. You will be based in the Vaasa office, in Finland, but your tasks can also come from our Northern Cluster business units in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, or Ireland. The most important is that you are a team player and willing to learn new things.

How you’ll make an impact

  • Preparing project-specific logistics plans together with the project team.
  • Organizing and monitoring project deliveries and coordinating transportation from vendors to collection points and/or construction sites, including storage planning and coordination.
  • Ensuring that goods are delivered under contracts to the right place at the right time and the right cost, meeting the operational requirements. Track, develop, and report monthly KPIs.
  • Providing information to stakeholders and corrective/recovery measures if the supplier is late in delivering the project.
  • Creation and management of shipping documents.

Your background

  • Professional degree (B.Sc. or equivalent) in Business Administration or Economics.
  • Good knowledge of logistics, project management, and supply chain management concepts.
  • You have a professional understanding of international logistics rules (e.g. Incoterms) in sea, road, and air transport modes.
  • You have strong interaction skills and you see yourself as a team player who knows how to cooperate with different functions and stakeholders in global environment.
  • You have a systematic, independent, and proactive way of working.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
  • Ability to deal with complex organization.
  • Fluent written and spoken English is a prerequisite. Knowledge of Finnish and/or Swedish is considered an advantage.
  • Comprehensive understanding of SAP and MS Tools.

Are you interested in joining our North Cluster Logistics Team? We look forward to receiving your application. Apply for the position by January 12, 2025. Please note that we will initiate interviews as candidates apply and position will be filled as soon as a suitable candidate is found.

For more information about this role, please contact Miia Hedström, North Cluster Logistics Manager:

By email [email protected]

By phone – calls only on Friday 29.11; Thursday 5.12; Friday 13.12; or Friday 10.1 only at 13-15 UTC +02.00,

at +358 503343210. No Text/WhatsApp messages.

For questions about the recruitment process, please contact Marika Kuusisto, Talent Partner, at +358 50 335 8700.

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