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Operations Specialist Container Logistics - You make the promise

On-site in Rotterdam·Full-time·Added 21 days ago (last checked 9 Nov)

Uturn

2 open roles

Our summary

Salary
€3,500 - €4,500 a month
Work mode
On-site, Rotterdam
Contract
Permanent, full-time hours
Languages
German, Dutch
Experience
5+ years

Skills

This job advert was originally written in Dutch.

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • At least 5 years of experience in logistics operations or in operational projects.

  • Knowledge of the port: terminals, pre-notification, documents, and container types.

  • You read figures and dashboards and turn them into concrete proposals.

  • If a trip gets stuck, you find out why and prevent repetition.

  • When everything happens at once, you know what must come first.

  • Your agreements are correct and you do what you promise.

  • You communicate easily with colleagues and with planners and carriers.

  • You speak fluent Dutch and English. German is a plus.

This position requires a full-time presence at our office in Rotterdam, because the operation relies on quick switching with one another.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

  • A salary between €3,500 and €4,500 gross per month based on 40 hours, depending on experience.

  • 27.5 vacation days.

  • Career growth: if you want to grow into a leadership role in Operations, there is room for that.

  • Influence: you help determine how we organize the work and what needs to be improved.

  • Learning: you join a growing company where you will quickly learn a lot about container logistics and a network that is expanding to Belgium and Germany.

The role

Monday morning, 08:15 AM. Everything is going differently than planned.

A terminal is stuck, a carrier fails, and a shipper calls about their container. You know what to do. And you want to ensure it doesn't happen again next time. Then we are looking for you.

What you'll do

As an Operations Specialist, you work in the Operations team at UTURN, between the shippers who rely on us and the partner-carriers who drive the trips. You are responsible for the execution and the results of your part of the operation. You contribute to the matching percentage and the rapid handling of customer inquiries, and you build good relationships with your contacts at shippers and carriers. You work from our office in Rotterdam.

  • Handling customer inquiries. You handle operational questions from shippers and carriers quickly and correctly, and escalate in a timely manner.

  • Participating in execution. You participate in the daily transport processes.

  • Strengthening customer collaboration. You actively follow up on opportunities with customers, so that as many trips as possible proceed according to agreement.

  • Recording and following up. You neatly record agreements and deviations and follow them up.

  • Identifying improvement opportunities. You see where service, network, or processes can be improved and work that out with our product team into a proposal.

  • Implementing new ways of working. You help roll out new services and ways of working and ensure they are used.

  • Measuring results. You track the matching percentage and the share of trips that we fulfill as promised, and test whether improvements work.

  • Sharing knowledge. You onboard new colleagues and record ways of working.

What do you bring?

Will we see you Monday at 08:15 AM?

Do you want to help determine how containers move through Europe, and ensure that every trip runs as promised? Then we would love to hear from you.

Apply via the Apply button. A CV and a few lines about yourself and your motivation are enough.

About Uturn

In their own words

About the company & team

What began in 2016 as an idea to digitally book container trips has grown into a network in which shippers and carriers find each other every day. In 2025, we facilitated over 100,000 trips together. Behind every trip lies a promise: a production line that keeps running, a shelf that is full again in the morning, a customer who receives what was promised to them. We help fulfill that promise, according to our motto: Every container. A promise kept.

We do this in three ways. With UTURN Spot, shippers quickly find a screened carrier for an individual trip. With UTURN Direct, we take control of their own carriers, using our network as backup capacity. And with UTURN Managed, we handle the complete container transport for shippers who want to outsource that. Our partner-carriers get easy access to trips and the certainty that they are paid within 30 days. Even those who drive for us can build on us.

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