Job description
Job Purpose:
You will work across the business and with our external shipping agents to complete all paperwork and legal requirements to complete customs entries and associated documents in a timely manner to ensure the smooth movement of end-to-end consignments.
This is a part-time role, Approx. 21 hours per week
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
Duties:
- Dealing with Sea freight, air freight and road freight imports, exports
- Liaising and maintaining relationships with third party freight forwarders and agents
- Awareness of customs entries, procedures
- End to end monitoring of shipments
- Reconciliation of HMRC Management Support System reports to shipments including collection and maintenance of all shipping documentation as required, including signatures, way bills , declarations, tracking information etc
- Awareness of shipping costing
- Create, manage and track all shipping Carnet’s
- Legal awareness of shipping processes and procedures
- Liaising with shipping agents
- Updating all departments on their shipments
- Check pending clearances that are being examined or held in bonded warehouses
- Dealing with domestic and international shipping via, DHL and FedEx
- Deal with queries or Customs post actions as appropriate
- Preparation of quarterly insurance declarations for tools movements
- Any other delegated tasks deemed as reasonable as assigned by the reporting manager
Skills Required:
- Experience of import, export within a commercial environment
- Ability to grasp procedures/processes quickly.
- Communicate well both verbally and in the written form
- Attention to detail and work in an accurate and methodical way
- Handle pressure and good time-management
- Able to adapt to change and work effectively as part of a team
- Past experience in customs transactions is an advantage
Job Type: Part-time
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Exeter: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: One location
Reference ID: SHADM