Freight Customs Clerk - Contrat

Freight Personnel; Liverpool City Region; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

21 days holiday

Bonuses twice yearly

Regular incentives and nights out

Job summary

Freight Personnel is seeking an Imports Customs Specialist to join the maternity cover for the Customs Team in the UK. The role focuses on handling sea, trailer, and some air freight customs, ensuring timely declarations and proper duty/VAT payments, and managing post clearance actions.

The successful candidate will have freight forwarder experience, broad customs knowledge, and strong IT and communication skills. Hybrid working is available once trained.

Qualifications

• Experience in customs freight role within a freight forwarder.
• Broad understanding of the customs process.
• Knowledge of Import and Export Clearance systems (CDS/Descartes/Chief/ASM/CNS/Destin8/BoxTop).
• Knowledge of the customs tariff.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Exceptional IT skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team or as an individual.
• Strong organisational & time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide outstanding level of customer service to internal and external clients.
• Handle sea and trailer freight with some air freight customs clearances using the CDS clearance system.
• Ensure accurate and timely processing of import and export customs declarations.
• Ensure correct payment of duty & VAT.
• Manage the release of consignments at port.
• All aspects of CFSP & Customs Warehousing.
• Manage post clearance action.

Skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

IT skills

Teamwork / independent work

Time management

Organisational skills

Tools

CDS

Descartes

Chief

ASM

CNS

Destin8

BoxTop

Job description

Our client is a well-established freight forwarder offering a hands-on approach to all our clients ensuring working partnerships are built and maintained throughout the course of projects and beyond.

The specialist sea freight division offers dedicated LCL (Less than Container Load) and FCL (Full Container Load) sea freight services to and from Europe, USA, Far East and Middle East as well as expert freight forwarding services

We are now recruiting due to maternity cover for the Customs Team, an Imports Customs Specialist to handle the Sea, Trailer and some Air freight customs needs for my client. This is a maternity cover for one year with a good chance of beig extended or made permanent

In this position you will hold ultimate responsibility for the following duties / tasks:

• Provide an outstanding level of customer service to both internal & external clients
• Handling sea and trailer freight in the main with some air freight customs clearances using the CDS clearance system
• Ensure the accurate and timely processing of import and export customs declarations
• Ensure correct payment of duty & VAT
• Manage the release of consignments at port
• All aspects of CFSP & Customs Warehousing
• Manage post clearance action

Applying candidates will possess:

• Experience from working for a freight forwarder in a customs freight role
• A broad understanding of the overall customs process
• Knowledge of Import and Export Clearance systems such as CDS/Descartes/Chief/ASM/CNS/Destin8/BoxTop
• Knowledge of the customs tariff
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Exceptional IT skills
• Ability to work as part of a team or as an individual
• Strong organisational & time management skills

Benefits

• Salary £27,000 to £30,000 Circa - dependent upon experience
• Pension
• 21 days holiday rising with length of service
• 2 Bonuses a Year dependent upon company performance
• Regular incentives and nights out

Hybrid working available once trained