Siemens

Logistics Project Manager

Siemens$75K — $95K *
Transportation
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in supply chain management or related field preferred; experience may substitute for degree.
  • Minimum 3 years' experience in project cargo/heavy lifts and oversized shipments.
  • Strong knowledge of international import/export regulations and customs procedures.
  • Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects effectively.
  • Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and proficiency in Word, with a focus on digitalization tools.

Responsibilities

  • Develop logistics concepts and pricing to support sales processes.
  • Support and ensure compliance with import/export regulations and customs formalities.
  • Identify risks and proactively create mitigation plans for logistics projects.
  • Coordinate logistics efforts with external stakeholders including freight forwarders and customs brokers.
  • Review and validate all shipping documentation as per legal requirements.
  • Track project status and manage supplier relationships and logistics claims.

Benefits

  • Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture.
  • Company paid health and wellness benefits.
  • Paid Time Off and paid holidays.
  • 401K savings plan with company match.
  • Family building benefits.
  • Parental leave.
Full Job Description
A Snapshot of Your Day

The Logistics Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing complex domestic and international logistics operations involving heavy lift, oversized, and project cargo. This role ensures compliance with all import/export regulations, customs requirements, and transportation constraints while managing multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. This position requires a detail-oriented professional with strong technical logistics knowledge, advanced Excel capabilities, and the ability to proactively mitigate risk across the full logistics lifecycle.

How You'll Make an Impact
  • Develop logistics concepts and pricing supporting the sales process. Evaluate proposals and quotations during execution and supporting award decisions based on evaluation of vendor risk, capability, experience and method. Areas of focus is heavy and over dimensional cargo.
  • Support import / export processes and knowledge of US Customs formalities and regulations.
  • Identify risks and work with the team to develop mitigation plans. Ensure road permits, rail clearances, HAZMAT declarations and other regulatory requirements that are part of project logistics are in place and validated.
  • Coordinate with stakeholders externally, including freight forwarders, carriers, riggers, customs brokers and surveyors. Coordinate internally with project management teams, finance teams, transport engineers, factory personnel and field service personnel and others as needed.
  • Review and validate shipping documentation including commercial invoices, packing lists, bills of lading, certificates of origin, Safety Data Sheets, etc.
  • Track project status, report non-conformance and overall performance of the logistics scope, develop supplier relationships and manage claims as needed.

What You Bring
  • Bachelor's degree in supply chain management or related field preferred; Substitution of years of experience or other degrees can be considered.
  • Minimum 3 years' experience delivering project cargo/heavy lifts, and oversized shipments via ocean, air, rail, barge, and road while having working knowledge of international import/export regulations, INCOTERMS and customs procedures
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (tracking logs, reporting, data management), & proficiency in Microsoft Word. Ability to bring digitalization skills (automation, artificial intelligence, etc.)
  • Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with current visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfers.

About the Team

Grid Technologies

Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Rewards
  • Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture
  • Company paid Health and wellness benefits
  • Paid Time Off and paid holidays
  • 401K savings plan with company match
  • Family building benefits
  • Parental leave

About Siemens

Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the company are Industry, Energy, Healthcare, and Infrastructure & Cities, which represent the main activities of the company. The company is a prominent maker of medical diagnostics equipment and its medical health-care division, which generates about 12 percent of the company's total sales, is its second-most profitable unit, after the industrial automation division. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. Siemens and its subsidiaries employ approximately 385,000 people worldwide and reported global revenue of around €87 billion in 2019 according to its earnings release.
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