Siemens Energy

About the Role

Position Title: Customs Specialist
Location: ZA – Midrand
Department: SE TC C MEA
Grouping: Customs Professional
Mode of Employment: Permanent / Full-time

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Customs Specialist, your role focuses on customs classification, origin management (preferential and non-preferential), and the execution of import and export customs clearance activities under various customs procedures.
You will support operations in South Africa while interacting with stakeholders across the MEA region, working closely with internal teams, customs brokers, and local authorities to ensure compliant, efficient, and smooth cross-border movements of goods.

How You’ll Make an Impact

You will play a key role in ensuring customs compliance, operational efficiency, and risk mitigation across the region.

Key responsibilities include:

• Execute import and export customs clearance operations in collaboration with internal and external partners, using relevant ERP / SAP / trade solutions.
• Analyze and classify goods in accordance with customs regulations, considering technical product characteristics.
• Review and validate trade and customs documentation required for clearance processes involving suppliers, associations, and other stakeholders.
• Calculate and determine country of origin (preferential and non-preferential).
• Manage customs brokers by instructing, controlling, and monitoring brokerage activities.
• Approve and coordinate payment transactions related to customs duties and brokerage services.
• Conduct and support post-clearance audits to ensure compliance and continuous improvement.

What You Bring

Qualifications & Experience

• Diploma or certificate in Customs, Economics, Foreign Trade Law, or a comparable field.
• 3–5 years of experience in customs operations, with strong practical knowledge of customs regulations, foreign trade rules, and logistics processes.
• Solid understanding of Incoterms.
• Ability to translate legal and regulatory requirements into operational processes and system solutions.
• Experience with customs and ERP systems is a plus.
• Initial international exposure (working in international teams or abroad) is an advantage.

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to interact effectively with internal stakeholders and local customs authorities.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Structured problem-solving mindset with the ability to manage complex customs scenarios.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within cross-functional teams.

Your Opportunities for Personal Growth

• Work in an international, cross-cultural, and cross-functional environment.
• Be part of and actively contribute to the Siemens Energy transformation journey.
• Gain exposure to a balance of governance and business-oriented activities across multiple fields.
• Contribute to process optimization, digitalization, and automation initiatives in South Africa and across your broader area of responsibility.

About the Team

The customs organization of Siemens Energy, after becoming one Team with Siemens Gamesa Renewables, comprises globally of >210 colleagues. Our Customs team is responsible for and manages country wide compliance with and implementation of customs regulations that can result from national, multinational and supranational provisions.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. We meet the growing energy demand across 90+ countries while ensuring our climate is protected. With more than 92,000 dedicated employees, we not only generate electricity for over 16% of the global community, but we’re also using our technology to help protect people and the environment.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.