Activate your potential - join NORIT, the world leader in activated carbon production! 

Join us as Sr. Logistics Specialist who will play a pivotal role within Norit's Supply Chain team, ensuring the reliable, efficient movement of materials across plants, warehouses, and customer locations. This position is essential to supporting service excellence, operational reliability, and a culture where employees are empowered to act as owners—taking initiative, solving problems proactively, and driving improvements across the logistics function.

Your key responsibilities will be:

Coordinate and optimize transportation activities by scheduling carriers, evaluating delivery windows, load constraints, and shipment priorities, and adjusting plans proactively as conditions change
Lead the coordination of emergency and expedited shipments
Work with carriers to identify alternative routing when delays or disruptions occur
Monitor open orders and transportation reports to identify and resolve at-risk shipments
Serve as a go-to contact for escalated or sensitive logistics issues
Collaborate cross-functionally with Customer Care, plants, warehouses, and external partners to ensure seamless service and clear communication on shipment status, risks, and solutions
Demonstrate ownership and drive improvement by taking full accountability for logistics outcomes, proactively solving problems, and identifying process enhancements to improve efficiency and service quality
Maintain ERP accuracy and compliance by ensuring transportation data, documentation, and records are complete, accurate, audit-ready, and aligned with Responsible Care® and RC14001® requirements

Requirements

College degree or equivalent professional experience in logistics, transportation, or supply chain
Minimum of 5 years of experience in logistics, bulk transportation, or supply chain operations in manufacturing environment
Experience working with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, or similar) strongly preferred
Excellent planning, prioritization, and organizational skills
Clear, confident communicator with strong collaboration abilities
Customer-focused mindset with a passion for service excellence
Proactive, ownership-driven problem solver who can act decisively

Benefits

Competitive salary,
Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) and many other benefits,
Supportive and dynamic, yet down-to-earth work environment,
A flat organization with short lines in which ownership and initiatives are valued,
We support the development of our employees in the form of on-the-job learning, training and courses

NORIT Activated Carbon is one of the global leaders in producing various qualities of activated carbon in its powder and granular form. Our mission - to be the customer's #1 choice for added value activated carbon solutions in energy, environmental, water, food, chemical, pharma, automotive, and other industrial markets. We supply a broad portfolio of materials, know-how and technical expertise, complementary services and technologies.

We have established our global presence with manufacturing plants in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Italy and United States and as well a Global Business Service center in Riga.

NORIT Activated Carbon

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