Siemens Energy

About the role

Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Department: SE GT GS EU&AF WE&AF, Nigeria

Mode of Employment: Contract Employment

Position Title:  Logistics Project Manager

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Logistics Project Manager at Siemens Energy, you will play a key role in enabling the successful delivery of complex projects by ensuring seamless, compliant, and cost-effective onshore logistics operations across Nigeria.

You will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and controlling all onshore logistics activities, with a strong focus on logistics documentation, warehousing, inland transportation, and shipment optimization. While customs clearance activities are executed by a dedicated Customs Professional, you will work closely with them to ensure all project-specific logistics and documentation requirements are met in line with Nigerian regulations and Siemens Energy standards.

Your work will directly support project execution schedules, reduce logistics-related risks, and contribute to Siemens Energy’s commitment to reliable, sustainable, and efficient project delivery.

How You’ll Make an Impact  

Onshore Logistics Planning & Execution

• Plan and coordinate all onshore logistics activities including port interface, warehousing, and inland transportation
• Develop and implement project-specific logistics concepts aligned with schedules, construction sequences, and budget requirements.
• Coordinate with Project Management, Procurement, Engineering, and Site Teams to ensure timely material availability.
• Establish logistics schedules, milestones, and KPIs and monitor execution progress.

Documentation & Trade Compliance Coordination

• Coordinate logistics documentation requirements in line with project and regulatory needs.
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• Ensure consistency between shipping documents, project requirements, and regulatory processes.
• Support resolution of documentation-related issues impacting delivery timelines.

Inland Transportation Management

• Manage warehousing activities including receipt, storage, inventory control, preservation, and dispatch.
• Coordinate inland transportation including route assessments, permits, escorts, and site delivery sequencing.
• Oversee handling of heavy-lift, oversized, and sensitive cargo.
• Ensure safe and timely delivery to multiple project locations.

Shipment Optimization & Cost Efficiency

• Develop shipment optimization strategies (Containerization, consolidation, multimodal solutions) to reduce cost and transit time
• Evaluate logistics options and propose alternative routes or methods to mitigate risks and delays
• Monitor logistics budgets and identify efficiency improvements without compromising safety or compliance.

Stakeholder and Vendor Management

• Coordinate logistics service providers, transporters, warehouse operators, and freight forwarders.
• Act as the main onshore logistics interface between Siemens Energy and external partners
• Lead coordination meetings and reporting.

Risk Management & Problem Solving

• Identify logistics-related risks and define mitigation measures
• Implement contingency plans in coordination with project teams
• Resolve logistics execution issues proactively.

Health, Safety & Quality

• Ensure compliance with Siemens Energy EHS policies and local regulations
• Promote a strong safety culture across logistics activities
• Ensure logistics execution meets Siemens Energy quality standards.

What You Bring 

• Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in project logistics with strong onshore logistics exposure in Nigeria.
• Proven experience coordinating Form M and IDEC documentation processes.
• Strong background in warehousing and inland transportation for large or complex projects.
• Demonstrated expertise in shipment optimization strategies.
• Experience in EPC, energy, or infrastructure projects is an advantage.
• Strong communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in multidisciplinary teams.
• Proficiency in MS Office and Project management tools
• Mediation skills in case of conflicts
• Goal-oriented, comfortable working in diverse teams, and experienced in managing multiple tasks simultaneously.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation. 

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation. 

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Rewards

• Working with a global team
• Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects
• Possibility to take over further tasks within the company
• Supportive work culture
• Medical benefits
• Remote/Flexible work
• Time off/Paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform

• e-Learning
• Mentorship
• Coaching

·       Open feedback culture

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.