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Are you an individual with excellent communication skills who always has the customer in mind? Do you pride yourself on your organisational skills and your ability to work as part of a team? Are you an individual with excellent communication skills? Being able to work on your own initiative, you will represent the company is a smart, professional, and dedicated manner.

If this sounds like you, our Seasonal Operations Coordinator FTC position, based in Dover, may be the perfect opportunity for you.

Working various shift patterns, which are available, this is a great chance to join a focused, hardworking, and bubbly team. Being computer literate, your main role will be to accurately check-in freight and tourist vehicles/passengers at either the check-in booths or the Driver’s Reception Building. Ensuring good practice of Health and Safety for your colleagues and customers, you will be assisting with loading and discharging the vessels involving communication and use of hand-held UHF radios. Having an eye for detail, this role will involve completing damage reports of unaccompanied trailers reporting for shipment.

You will help make freight reservations by email and telephone, always meeting the customer service standards set by DFDS. In addition to this, you will be responsible for handling ticket sales in cash or by credit card for both freight and tourist vehicles/passengers. Working during our peak season, May – September, you will be able to work in a fast paced and everchanging environment.

If you are a hardworking easy going individual, who thrives working as part of a team, not afraid to get stuck in and assist the rest of the team in getting tasks done, then we believe this role is perfect for you!! We look forward to receiving your application.

Now about what we can give you. You’ll be able to access some fantastic benefits such as:

• Life assurance cover
• Contributory company pension scheme
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Free ferry travel for up to 4 guests between Dover and Calais / Newcastle and Amsterdam with no limit on trips
• Full employee assistance programme including:
• Proactive financial, emotional, mental, and physical health care support including face to face counselling, fast 24/7 access to a GP, a second medical opinion and legal support for colleagues and their family
• Huge range of retail discounts from high street and online retailers
• Cashback on health care including dental, optical, physiotherapy, prescriptions, specialist consultations and much more
• Access to Thrive, our award-winning Wellbeing platform
• Access to mental health first aid and opportunity to join support webinars with a focus on all areas of positive wellbeing

Who We Are…. DFDS provides shipping and transport services in Europe, generating annual revenues of EUR 1.9bn. To over 8,400 freight customers, we deliver high performance and superior reliability through shipping and port terminal services, and transport and logistics solutions. For six million passengers, we provide safe overnight and short sea ferry services. Our 10,000 employees are located on ships and in offices across more than 20 countries. DFDS was founded in 1866, is headquartered in Copenhagen, and listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen. In the UK, DFDS prides itself on having signed the Armed Forces Covenant and membership of the Apprenticeship Diversity Champions Network.

Interested? Apply now! If you’re looking for a varied role and have a desire to work in one of Northern Europe’s leading shipping and logistics company, please send us across your CV!

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