Trade Control Specialist - Import Administration (mid-level or Senior)

Boeing Boeing · Aerospace · Wichita, KS

This role focuses on ensuring compliance with US import regulations for aerospace parts, components, and tooling, including classification, valuation, and adherence to government agency requirements. It involves reviewing trade documentation, working with customs brokers, and analyzing trade data to identify and mitigate risks.

What you'd actually do

  1. Review trade documentation to meet US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) import entry requirements
  2. Classify aerospace parts, components, tooling, assemblies and kits under the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS)
  3. Identify and ensure compliance to Participating Government Agency (PGA) requirements for importing shipments
  4. Apply CBP’s hierarchy of valuation methodologies to ensure proper valuation on importing shipments
  5. Work with our Customs Brokers to ensure import transactions are conducted in a compliant manner

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of experience with United States export and/or import laws and regulations
  • 3+ years of experience in a global trade compliance role, including but not limited to import and/or export compliance, program management, contracts, engineering, supply chain management, or logistics
  • 3+ years of experience with the Microsoft Office suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access

Nice to have

  • Certified Customs Specialist (CCS) or Licensed Customs Broker (LCB)
  • Working knowledge of 19 C.F.R. and CBP importing requirements
  • Experience with Free Trade Agreements, Drawback, Reconciliation, import and export compliance assessments, duty recovery and minimization, and Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT)
  • Experience interacting with functional stakeholders internal to the organization on routine global trade control matters
  • Familiarity with importing requirements by government agencies in the US
  • Familiarity with International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)
  • Demonstrated problem solving and decision-making skills of moderate scope and complexity
  • Strong analytical skills with ability to logically document and explain processes
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

What the JD emphasized

  • US Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS)
  • US Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
  • import entry requirements
  • valuation methodologies
  • import transactions
  • trade compliance risks
  • importing trade controls
  • import and/or import compliance
  • importing shipments
  • importing requirements