What are the responsibilities and job description for the Customs Specialist II position at Noatum?
Noatum Logistics is a leading supply chain management company with global coverage, specializing in international freight forwarding and supply chain management, customs clearance and compliance, warehouse and contract logistics, project logistics, and eSolutions. As an innovative logistics provider, Noatum Logistics offers specific, integrated, complex, and value-added solutions for our clients' supply chains, while maintaining long-term relationships built on trust and confidence to guarantee success.
The Noatum Logistics Customs Specialist II is involved in daily customs brokerage activities including, but not limited to reviewing documentation, entry-writing, evaluating compliance needs, and making recommendations. The specialist ensures clients are provided with timely and accurate clearance services and communicates with clients to ensure compliant customs transactions. The customs specialist develops a thorough understanding of our clients' shipping requirements and patterns; demonstrates sound customer service and data entry skills; and develops job related knowledge to support growth within current position and further career development.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Noatum Logistics Customs Specialist II is involved in daily customs brokerage activities including, but not limited to reviewing documentation, entry-writing, evaluating compliance needs, and making recommendations. The specialist ensures clients are provided with timely and accurate clearance services and communicates with clients to ensure compliant customs transactions. The customs specialist develops a thorough understanding of our clients' shipping requirements and patterns; demonstrates sound customer service and data entry skills; and develops job related knowledge to support growth within current position and further career development.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Prepare customs entries and bonds, primarily air and ocean, with some cross-border.
- Enter customs data to meet regulatory and tracking requirements.
- Ensure regulatory requirements and proper documentation, including transit and customs clearance documents, exist for shipments.
- Ensure documentation is accurately processed, distributed, and released to customs representatives, carriers, forwarders, customers, and agents in a timely manner.
- Complete all necessary data entry and confirmation of key milestones (customs clearance, etc.) as specified by customer standard operating procedures.
- Complete accurate billing to clients based on established client pricing, while ensuring appropriate costs and profits are maintained.
- Utilize knowledge of Inco terms and commercial invoice requirements to provide guidance to customers as needed.
- Arrange the transfer and delivery of shipments with appropriate partners.
- Develop and maintain successful relationships with clients, government agencies and local vendors (e.g., custom brokers, customs officials, airline representatives, freight forwarders, local pickup and delivery companies, regional trucking companies, line haul providers)
- Prepare timely customs management information and reports as requested or specified per department KPIs.
- Provide support to team members with training activities and audit oversight.
- Maintain client specific HTS databases.
- Assist with Global Trade Management projects as needed including classification, post entry filing, auditing, etc.
- Participate as an effective team member with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
- Maintain courteous, prompt, and efficient customer relations.
- Comply with all necessary procedures to assure a clean, properly organized, safe and healthy environment for all personnel.
