Air Import Specialist

JAS Worldwide; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Health insurance

401(k)

Bonuses

Job summary

JAS Forwarding (USA), Inc. in Chicago, IL is seeking an Air Import Specialist to coordinate flights, shipments, and communications with airlines, suppliers, and customers. You will ensure timely status updates and quality service across the supply chain.

The role requires a college degree or equivalent experience, strong organizational skills, and the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment. Comprehensive benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Commitment and proactive attitude.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Pragmatic thinking and detail orientation.
• Organized with strong teamwork and self-motivation.

Responsibilities

• Track cargo arrivals via web for origin and warehouses.
• Receive customer transmissions and route to warehouses before flight arrival.
• Report missing documents or packages to customer service and origin.
• Enter and forward transmissions to generate the operation.
• Generate notices of arrival to the warehouse and send dispatch.
• Generate invoices for freight and handling on cargo arrival.
• Issue letters to airlines within established times.
• Coordinate sending documents to customers by courier.
• Issue insurance per customer service instruction.
• Comply with customs transmissions per regulations.
• Notify clients of cargo arrival.
• Daily tracking of all pending flights and delays.

Skills

Commitment

Proactive

Under pressure

Pragmatic thinking

Detail oriented

Organized

Teamwork

Self-motivated

Education

College degree

Job description

JAS is an international, non-asset-based supply chain services and solutions company. Our services include air and ocean freight forwarding, contract logistics, customs brokerage, distribution, inbound logistics, truckload brokerage and other supply chain management services, including consulting, the coordination of purchase orders and customized management services.

SUMMARY: The Air Import Specialist will be responsible for coordinating, airlines, and clients the status of the handling of the flights and the arrival of the shipments, offering a quality service with both the Suppliers and customers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Track the arrivals of cargo via web, with JAS origin and warehouses / warehouse.
• Receive the customer service transmissions, and send them to the warehouses / warehouses before 8 hours arrival of the flight.
• Report missing documents / packages to customer service, origin and customer.
• Enter forward the transmissions sent by customer services to generate the operation.
• Generate the notice of arrival of the cargo to the warehouse / fiscal warehouse send the dispatch.
• Generate the invoice for freight and handling of the operation as soon as the cargo arrives.
• Generate bad letters to the airlines in the established times.
• Coordinate the sending of documents to customers by courier.
• Issue Insurance according to customer service instruction.
• Comply with customs transmissions at the time regulated by customs.
• Notify the client of the arrival of their cargo immediately.
• Daily tracking of all pending flights, reporting delays or other

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Commitment and proactive
• Capacity to work under pressure.
• Pragmatic thinking
• Detail oriented
• Organized
• Teamwork
• Self-motivated

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• College degree or equivalent work experience

ENVIRONMENT:

100% performed in climate-controlled internal office environment working under normal office conditions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands and fingers to feel and handle, reach with arms and hands, talk and hear. While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently is required to stop, kneel and crouch, lift weight or exert a force up to a maximum of 25 pounds. This position requires employee to frequently work in a fluid, fast paced environment.

ADDITIONAL:

The responsibilities associated with this job will change from time to time in accordance with the Company’s business needs. More specifically, the incumbent may be required to perform additional and/or different responsibilities from those set forth above. The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job.

In accordance with Illinois state law, we are committed to providing pay transparency to all job applicants. For this position, the annual pay range is $60,000 - $65,000 depending on qualifications and experience. This range represents the full BASE compensation potential for this role, and the specific compensation offered to the selected candidate will be based on factors such as skills, experience, and other relevant qualifications.

In addition to base salary, JAS Forwarding offers a comprehensive benefits package, including dental, vision, and health insurance, 401(k), bonuses (depending on role) etc.

Management retains discretion to add or change duties of this position at any time.

JAS Forwarding (USA), Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, disability, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Where required by state law and/or city ordinance; this employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS:

JAS USA IS A CUSTOMS BROKER, GOVERNED BY FEDERAL REGULATION. FEDERAL REGULATIONS PROVIDE THAT JAS MAY HAVE IT BROKERAGE LICENSE SUSPENDED OR REVOKED IF IT “KNOWINGLY EMPLOYED, OR CONTINUES TO EMPLOY, ANY PERSON WHO HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF A FELONY, WITHOUT WRITTEN APPROVAL OF THAT EMPLOYMENT FROM THE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER.” JAS WILL PERFORM A BACKGROUND CHECK TO DETERMINE IF YOU HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF A FELONY AND IF SO, ABSENT SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, YOU WILL NOT BE HIRED OR WILL BE TERMINATED IMMEDIATELY.