About this role
What You Can Expect:
• Administer the daily operations of the company's Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ), ensuring full compliance with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulations. • Review customs documentation, commercial invoices, shipping documents, and entry information to ensure accuracy, completeness, and regulatory compliance. • Coordinate FTZ admissions, inventory transfers, exports, consumption entries, inventory adjustments, destructions, and zone-to-zone transfers. • Maintain accurate FTZ inventory records and ensure compliance with CBP inventory control and audit requirements. • Monitor inventory discrepancies, investigate exceptions, and implement corrective actions to maintain inventory integrity. • Review import documentation to verify country of origin, importer of record, valuation, terms of sale, tariff classification, and other customs requirements. • Identify documentation discrepancies, communicate directly with customers, overseas partners, customs brokers, and internal teams, and drive timely resolution. • Prepare customer reports and provide regular updates regarding FTZ inventory, customs activities, and operational performance. • Collaborate closely with warehouse operations, brokerage teams, and other departments to ensure efficient customs processing and customer service. • Identify compliance risks, escalate unresolved issues, and recommend corrective actions to minimize operational and regulatory exposure. • Support internal and external customs audits by maintaining complete, accurate, and audit-ready documentation. • Monitor regulatory changes affecting FTZ operations and support continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen compliance processes. • Perform additional duties and special projects as assigned.
What You Bring:
• Minimum 2 years of experience in customs brokerage, import/export compliance, Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) operations, or international logistics. • Strong knowledge of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulations, Foreign Trade Zone requirements, and import/export compliance. • Experience administering FTZ inventory control systems, customs documentation, and regulatory recordkeeping. • Experience working directly with customs brokers, government agencies, and regulatory authorities. • Strong understanding of customs entry documentation, commercial invoices, country of origin, importer of record (IOR), valuation, tariff classification, and international trade documentation. • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail. • Demonstrated ability to identify compliance risks, interpret regulatory requirements, and implement practical solutions. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate professionally across all levels of the organization. • Ability to prioritize multiple deadlines and perform effectively in a fast-paced environment. • Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Outlook; experience with FTZ inventory management systems is considered an asset. • Experience within freight forwarding, customs brokerage, contract logistics, or international supply chain operations is preferred. • Bilingual English and Spanish or another language is considered an asset.