LM306: Sr.Clearance Specialist

Description

"Involves an accomplished level of processing, coordinating and obtaining customs clearance approval for import/export and transshipments of documents, packages, and merchandise in baggage or air freight under the direction of the Station Operations Manager.
Lead or senior levels of these positions may:
• Handle escalated or more complex issues,
• Coordinate team activities or those of agency contract staff,
• Support supervisor or manager activities,
• Support the design, review and implementation of processes and procedures."

General job description:
Under limited supervision performs the following activities:
• Prepares necessary customs forms to enable import, export and transshipments procedures to take place in a timely, efficient and effective manner for consignments arriving/departing via aircraft. Ex. master airway bills, cargo manifests and general declarations, invoices and other related paperwork.
• Prepares forms detailing customs duties, tariffs and taxes/V.A.T. fees to enable timely recovery of costs.
• Prepares international manifests to ensure responsive and efficient customs clearance are possible.
• Ensures station's full compliance with country customs and tax laws and in line with FedEx policies, procedures, practices and rules.
• Interfaces with customs officials and coordinates customs activities with internal operation employees.
• Contacts customers for additional information and to inform them on duties and taxes to be paid.
• Maintains all customs documentation well organized and properly filed.
• Performs sorting, baggage support at airport and station and retrieves air freight from carriers as required.
• Pulls copy of AWBS of overages to ensure adjustment.
• May be required to perform other duties as assigned

Minimum Requirements:
Minimum Education:
• High School degree/Equivalent.
• Proficient in English (TOEIC 600 points).
                                                
Minimum Experience:
• Four (4) years in international freight/cargo customs policies, procedures, rules and laws.
• Demonstrated of airport and customs clearance procedures required.
• Driver's license.

Minimum Required Skills:
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• General office skills
• Computer literate
• CRT experience preferred

FedEx is widely acknowledged as a world-class company. We are honored and proud to be consistently recognized as a great place to work, a technology innovator and one of the world’s most admired and respected companies.

FedEx is consistently named among the World’s most valuable and admired brands. Some of our recent awards include:

• 2020 Fortune’s World Most Admired Companies (14th)
• 2019 Fortune’s Best Places to Work (15th)
• 2019 Forbes’s One of the “Best Employers for Diversity”
• 2020 FedEx LAC included in the GPTW’s Best Workplaces in Latin America Ranking (24th)
• 2021 FedEx Mexico was included in the GPTW Ranking for 18th consecutive years
• 2020 FedEx Mexico received the CEMEFI Certification for 13th consecutive years endorsing FedEx as a company socially responsible
• 2021 FedEx Chile was re-certified with Giro Limpio, a seal from the Agency of Sustainable Energy that seeks to improve the energy efficiency of the ground transportation sector, by reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
• 2019 FedEx Uruguay selected by GPTW among the 5 best companies to work for.