My client, a privately owned freight forwarder, is looking to recruit an ambitious Customs specialist for their office near Heathrow.

We are looking for a driven individual who wants to broaden their general freight forwarding experience and grow with the company.

ROLE: Customs Specialist

LOCATION: Surrey/Berkshire/Heathrow

Salary: up to £38k

Industry: Freight Forwarding/Airfreight/Oceanfreight

The position we are seeking to fill is for a Customs Specialist to complement our dedicated team & the role presents a great opportunity to join a small, hands-on team, with the scope of learning multi-modal, including cross-trade operations.

Previous experience in working with a smaller sized business in Air, Sea, Road & Courier movements is required, as the successful candidate would need to be able to hit the ground running.

Our operating system we work with is BoxTop, which is an access-based system & well known throughout the Freight Forwarding sector. Prior experience of this would be advantageous but not essential as full training would be given.

The completion of our import & export entries is presently done via Descartes, however as we'll be moving to ASM Sequoia in June of this year previous experience of ASM Sequoia is essential.

Whilst the role primarily will be focused on import Customs declarations, we would seek to train the successful candidate on CDS export air & ocean declarations.

The successful candidate would be expected to handle a job from start to finish, so quoting, arranging transport & raising files, including the placing of costs onto both the file & BoxTop system for our multi-modal shipments by Air, Sea, Road & Courier.

We are seeking a well-mannered, with good interpersonal skills individual that can both work well on their own initiative & as well as within a team.

The successful candidate must be able to drive as on occasions running documentation/freight over to the airport will be required.

Starting salary negotiable, dependant on experience.

A company laptop & mobile would also be provided.

Our business hours are Monday-Friday 09:00hrs - 17:30hrs, however during peak periods/holiday cover additional hours would be expected to be covered.

Note the position would be based on the successful candidate working at our Egham office & is not a hybrid position.