Planner

APM Terminals

This position is responsible for the planning of vessel discharge and load operations. The planning takes into account vessel stability, safety, and an efficient yard and vessel operation. Yard Planning is responsible for controlling and planning the complete yard process in order to achieve maximum productivity and efficiency with due consideration to vessel and inter-modal operations. The position reports to the Manager Planning.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Vessel Planning

• Responsible for providing vessel and shipping agents with information about vessel load and discharge processes.
• Maintain ownership of the vessels under your control and assist if planning disturbances occur during vessel call.
• Ensure efficient and highly productive planning with due consideration to the vessel stability and safety under load and discharge.
• Prepares and communicates vessel load plans and vessel work plans.
• Keeps the quay-operation and vessel administration systems updated.
• Controls the execution of the vessel operation plan.
• Checks with berthing coordinator for reasonable berthing position for fast turn-around of tractors during vessel operations.
• Preparation and execution of vessel discharge and load sequence to support, achieve & sustain productivity targets per quay crane operation
• Manage and control the execution of the vessel operation plan, ensuring that the vessel file is closed within two hrs of the completion of vessel operations.
• Filing and housekeeping of planning related papers in accordance with standard operating procedures. Also maintain that all vessels receive paper work in a timely manner.
• Meet vessel on arrival, to finalise and provide all loading documents, and quay crane working sequence. Ensure that all vessels receive final departure paper work in a timely manner
• Understand vessel stability and safety under discharge and load criteria and whether intended discharge and load plan meets those criteria

Yard Planning

• Manage continuous process of yard integrity, while performing on-going space utilization analysis.
• Responsible on a daily basis for ensuring that the yard operation runs in a manner that achieves maximum productivity and efficiency, with 100% system integrity as it relates to equipment location.
• Provides strategic yard lay-out settings and maintains vessel library.
• Create and maintain a yard set up which supports the terminals productivity targets per qquay crane operation & truck turn-times.
• Ensure that equipment location information has 100% accuracy & integrity.
• Reduce redundant yard moves to less than 5 % of the total movement.
• Check and support an accurate and efficient information flow on the terminal related to all yard activities.
• In co-operation with other planning staff set the overall yard strategy by assigning flexible allocation per service.
• Control yard space allocation by service, nominated vessel, pod, equipment type, special handling (i.e. hazardous, temperature controlled etc.) for empty and loaded equipment.
• Monitor and fine-tune the terminal operating system in order to ensure that yard planning is satisfactory and meets the strategy requirements.
• Prepare the 'yard work plan' on a daily basis and communicate to relevant persons where the equipment has to be located.
• Prepare the work flow related to housekeeping, empty movement, corrections etc.
• Report on a weekly basis on the status of production, yard density, equipment utilization and strategy/allocation changes.
• Nominate empty equipment for shipment as directed by the concerned shipping line.

QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Degree in Logistics, Operations Management, or related discipline.
• Requires at least five or more years of previous experience as a vessel and yard planner for a container terminal operation. Previous experience as a dispatcher in a container terminal environment will be an advantage.
• Requires sound knowledge of container vessel stowage and stability criteria.
• Requires sound knowledge of yard lay-out and operating techniques.
• Requires sound knowledge of NAVIS vessel and yard planning systems
• Requires a certificate in hazardous cargo handling.
• Has familiarity with the strict implementation of international standards of safe working practices within marine, stevedoring and terminal operations.
• Requires a high level of planning and organizational skills.
• Requires ability to use computerized vessel and yard operation software system(s).

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