Advance Yard Planner

JOB PURPOSE

• To provide a comprehensive yard planning services to ensure productivity, efficiency, quality of work, safety and time management.
• To monitor, control and align with yard equipment requirement as per operation demand.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Understand the manual and automatic yard planning process, SOPs, Work instructions and make sure that vessel discharge is accommodated within the same range of outbound visit according to the defined Yard Strategy.
• Allocate locations for transhipment containers considering the following factors:
• Berthing plan of outbound vessel and details about Port of Destination. Historic data in case of details of outbound vessel not available
• Distance covered from the point of discharge - assigned location – point of loading
• Line operator, weight
• Type of container
• Identify a range nearest to the berth and check if the identified range has sufficient space to accommodate import containers and assign locations to import containers.
• Plan discharge of empty containers, according to the MTY segregation, instructions and demands.
• To plan the yard planning activities well in advance before the vessel is berthed, by consistently following the yard strategy, analysing the system filters and allocation range in order to maintain the inbound containers in yard with zero “NAP” and minimum unproductive moves.
• To ensure that the exception filters are created well in advance and allocating special containers received from Vessel to avoid any yard delays.
• To ensure that the housekeeping activities are completed before the vessel berths alongside with compliance to the set terminal KPIs.
• Handover all information to the relieving planner during shift change highlighting the critical cases in the system.
• Discuss with yard strategist for improvement of vessel discharge planning process and any concerns and issues related to vessel discharge planning.
• Ensure attending all the requests from line operators via E-mail and discuss ITT related plan with Yard strategist to ensure hassle free transportation.
• Based on the daily game plan and gate movement, plan all the gate cargo according to the yard strategy to achieve the optimal external truck turnaround time.
• Follow all the SOPs and WIs including separate stacking requests, HAZ, OOG and special container planning requirement.
• To ensure all discharge cargo is distributed between yard locations equally.
• Make sure that all special cargo planned and executed in the yard as per the SOPs and WIs.
• Report to management about any incorrect update by the yard equipment operator during live vessel discharge operations.
• Provide yard status report to the management on a daily or when requested.
• Provide yard inventory report to the customer on a daily basis or when requested.
• Provide report to the management about incorrect yard location updated by the yard equipment operators.
• Filling and archiving of yard planning related papers in accordance with standard operating procedures.
• Perform other duties which may be assigned from time to time by the management. 
• Optimizing Quay and yard operation to achieve set KPI.
• Responsible for safety & discipline in work area.
• Ensure compliance with Fatal Risk Standards.
• Ensure compliance with Safe Work Practices.
• Ensure compliance with HSE policy.