Project Logistics Specialist

I'm working with an independently owned project logistics specialist that has been doing this for over 35 years, with offices on six continents and a German operation based in Bremen.

This is not a project desk bolted onto a container business. Project logistics is the entire business.

Everything the company does sits around heavy lift, out of gauge and breakbulk, backed by its own in-house chartering desk, its own transport engineering team, and its own logistics consultancy arm. Nobody here is going to ask you to cover standard FCL when the projects go quiet.

What makes this special

The German team has roughly doubled in size over the last couple of years, and the group has kept investing in Bremen rather than centralising everything into a European hub. New project managers, dedicated commercial support, and new capability. It's a growth story, not a legacy office being quietly wound down.

The cargo you'll be handling:

• Oil and gas infrastructure, including modules and refinery components
• Power generation and transmission, transformers and turbines
• Mining and metals, including mill and crusher equipment
• Renewables and petrochemical project scopes
• Out of gauge and heavy lift cargo, FCL, LCL, cross trades and full charters

The clients are EPCs and industrial end users, and the work regularly goes into places where the port infrastructure is limited, the road behind it is worse, and the route survey matters more than the rate. That's the sort of file that stretches an ocean export person properly.

Because the chartering desk is internal, you're not sending an enquiry to a broker and waiting three days for an answer. You walk it across to the person fixing the vessel. Same with the engineers when a piece won't sit on a standard trailer or needs a lifting study.

What's in it for you

Location and flexibility

• Based in Bremen
• 2 days home office per week
• 40 hour week with genuinely flexible hours
• Small, specialist team where your name is on the file, not a queue number
• One of the few remaining independents in project logistics at this scale, so decisions get made in the building rather than at a regional head office
• Direct exposure to chartering, engineering and consultancy work alongside your own desk
• Real scope to shape the role towards pure Operations, pure Pricing, or a blend of both
• An international network you'll actually use, with jobs routinely run jointly between Bremen and the overseas offices

Compensation

• Salary up to €65,000 depending on project logistics experience
• Recognition that OOG and heavy lift expertise is a specialism, not a generalist skill

Your background

Open to candidates with 2 to 5+ years in project logistics, or an ocean export background with genuine project cargo exposure. If you already know your way around lashing and securing, method statements and route surveys, you'll be at home quickly. If you're coming from an ocean export desk and want to go deeper into project work, the training and the mentoring are there.

German and English both needed. A third language is welcome given the spread of the network.