Summary (Position Description): Seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Import/Export Compliance Specialist to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of international trade regulations, including customs laws, export controls, and sanctions. This role will be responsible for ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, managing export licenses, and providing guidance to internal stakeholders.
Reports To: Vice President of Operations
Status: Full time, Salary Exempt
Duties & Tasks:
- Plans, documents, and implements all Local, National and International Trade Compliance Policies and Procedures, as necessary, to ensure compliance with U.S. export and import laws and regulations
- Manage Duty Draw back program working with Import shipping companies
- Identifies program specific import and export requirements, obtaining detailed information from business development, customer support, procurement, and contract resources on trade related initiatives.
- Identifies all departments and employees involved with import and export activities, conducts appropriate training for such departments and employees, including training of new employees, and for the maintenance of training records.
- Assists with import trade agreement certificate collection, reviews and country of origin verification
- Develops and implements any necessary internal process review mechanisms to assess Trade Compliance levels, including the assigning of any needed corrective actions and all needed follow-up to ensure completion of those corrective actions.
- Assists in providing import/export compliance guidance in support of contracts, procurement, sales, business development, logistics, and other stakeholders.
- Assists in monitoring government trade and industry developments.
- Ensures proper import/export recordkeeping requirements are met
- Creates and updates Trade Compliance Manuals, Policies and Procedures as appropriate.
- Identifies cost saving opportunities related to free trade agreement preferential duty treatment and other tariff
- Maintaining legal records to ensure proof of compliance.
- Reviews the use of licenses, exemptions and exceptions for shipments and information exports, including deemed exports.
- Prepares and/or revises compliance related forms and business flowcharts.
- Collaborates regularly with appropriate stakeholders and with shipping logistics on issues which relate to both trade compliance and logistics.
- Identifies gaps in compliance and methods for process and procedure improvements.
- Prepare reports and documents for external regulatory bodies as appropriate.
- Manage internal documentation to match Export of completed units to importation of components.
- Performs other duties as assigned
Who We Are:
Bitzer Us Inc. is a leading manufacturer of key components used in commercial and industrial refrigeration and air conditioning systems. These key components include compressors, pressure vessels such as condensers and evaporators, compressor packages, and condensing units. Other products include waste heat-to-power equipment that converts excess heat to low-cost electricity.
You partner with others to get work done while gaining insight into customers' needs and deliver solutions that exceed customer expectations. You create Raving Fans. You set objectives aligning with organization and prioritize accordingly.
Conveniently located in Flowery Branch, Georgia 5 minutes off I-985 The Company is wholly owned by Bitzer SE (located in Germany), the Company is a private company and serves as Bitzer SE's flagship North American subsidiary. On a global basis, Bitzer SE has 3,900 employees at 72 sites in 38 countries, including 20 production facilities.
Competencies (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities):
- Knowledge of special trade programs such Free Trade Agreements, GSP, Anti-Dumping, VAT, Duty Drawback and other reduced duty programs.
- Knowledge of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC), Foreign Trade Regulations (FTR), Non-US export controls, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and US and Global Customs Regulations.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in international business, supply chain management, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in import/export compliance.
- Strong understanding of U.S. export control regulations (ITAR, EAR) and customs regulations (CFR 19).
- Knowledge of international trade agreements and free trade zones.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Must have strong competency of SAP.
- This position will require travel between Georgia and New York occasionally.
Work Environment:
Although this position is mostly in the office environment the job will require the employee to visit the production floor and spending time in the shipping area. Communication is constant with both locations and different people in those areas. This role routinely uses computers and a smartphone along with using designated BITZER and SAP business software systems.
Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to be available or on call at all times.
Employee Benefits:
- Medical Insurance (heavily subsidized by the Company)
- Dental Insurance
- Company paid Vision Insurance, $50,000 life insurance and Short and Long-Term Disability
- 2 Weeks Paid Vacation and 5 Paid Personal Days
- Education Reimbursement (must be approved by manager)
- 401(k) Plan where it matches dollar-for-dollar up to 4% of compensation; 100% vested immediately.
- Company Long Term Incentive Plan based on the profitability of the Company; 100% vested after 6 years on a graded scale).
Other Information
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Employees are required to follow any job-related instructions and to perform job-related duties requested by management. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodations. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required.
This Job Description does not imply an employment contract. BITZER US is an at-will employer.
BITZER US is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and as such we recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristics protected by law.