Lead Customs Specialist

Baker Hughes


Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Nailsea
Contract type: Full time
Are you excited to join a pivotal team in ensuring that UK and EU customs legislations and requirements are met?

Do you enjoy a busy, varied role working as an intermediary across multiple functions and face of Customs Specialisms?

About The Team

A highly skilled team delivering innovative solutions for complex integrity management challenges across multiple function environments. The role is a key position within the diverse, multi-disciplined, results focused team. The successful candidate shall meet the requirements listed below whilst being focused on collaborating with multiple resources to deliver on strategic goals.

Partner with the best

As a Lead Customs specialist, you will oversee and manage customs compliance operations within our Baker Hughes IET (Industrial & Energy Technology) organization, ensuring that import/export activities adhere to local, national and international customs regulations. You will also ensure smooth compliant and cost effective cross-border transactions.

As a Lead Customs specialist, you will be responsible for:


  • Acting as business focal point for any customs operations related matters to facilitate and drive process enhancement and adherence,
  • Acting as primary point of contact for internal stakeholders, customers and vendor queries
  • Performing the processing of imports, resolving daily inquiries; processing and filing of customs declarations and issuing clearance instructions
  • Providing import & export documentation support; resolving issues relating to clearance of transactional goods in cohesion with brokers and logistics functions
  • Performing reviews of customs declarations, broker invoices; reporting findings, investigating cause of defects, rectifying incorrect declarations and recommending solutions and improvements
  • Assessing import and export customs processes; uncovering efficiency and quality opportunities, enhancing processes and ensuring documentation is in accordance with local regulation and corporate policy


Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role you will:


  • Have a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
  • Have significant experience in customs, logistics and trade compliance and demonstrate initiatives and ownership in a high volume environment
  • Be able to demonstrate expert knowledge and understanding of UK and EU Customs regulations and associated processes
  • Show excellent interpersonal communication skills with emphasis on building and nurturing good working relations coupled with an organized and methodical approach
  • Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication in the English language; with French, Spanish or German being advantageous to your application
  • Have an good compliance and controllership mindset across customs, quality and legislation
  • Be able to demonstrate problem solving and resolving challenges efficiently in a high volume environment


Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:


  • Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive


Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:


  • Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
  • Comprehensive private medical care options
  • Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
  • Tailored financial programs
  • Additional elected or voluntary benefits


About Us:

We are an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet.

Join Us:

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company that values innovation and progress? Join us and become part of a team of people who will challenge and inspire you! Let’s come together and take energy forward.

Baker Hughes Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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