Shipping Specialist

**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.

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

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Experience of import, export within a commercial environment
- Ability to grasp procedures/processes quickly.
- Ability to communicate well both verbally and in the written form
- Ability for pay attention to detail and work in an accurate and methodical way
- Ability to handle pressure and good time-management
- Ability to adapt to change and work effectively as part of a team
- Experience in customs is an advantage

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: From £28,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Import and Export: 3 years (required)

Ability to Commute:

- Park, EX5 2UL (required)

Work Location: In person