Customs Quality Professional - Duty Optimization

About the Role

Location
United States of America
Florida
Orlando
Company
Siemens Energy, Inc.
Organization
SE CFO
Business Unit
Taxes & Customs
Full / Part time
Full-time
Experience Level
Mid-level Professional

A Snapshot of Your Day

The Siemens Energy North America Customs team ensures compliance with customs regulations and internal requirements efficiently. As part of the North America Customs team, the Customs Quality function conducts reviews, manages corrective actions, optimizes processes, identifies duty savings, prepares reports, locally implements IT demands for corporate core solutions and handles customs duty payments for Siemens Energy, Inc. This role is primarily responsible for analyzing preferential origin, identifying duty savings, implementing related duty optimization processes, and supporting training.

How You’ll Make an Impact

  • Handle requests for preferential certificates of origin, analyze origin and bill of materials, oversee the solicitation program, issue FTA-compliant certifications, and keep records with supporting documentation.
  • Identify customs duty savings by regularly analyzing goods flows and using optimization programs such as FTAs, FTA reconciliation, FTZ, Chapter 98 provisions and duty drawback.
  • Prepare FTA refund claims by evaluating entries, collecting documents, submitting USMCA Reconciliation requests to Customs Brokers, and monitoring their completion.
  • Support the duty drawback program, including collection and auditing of all imports, production, manufacturing and export data and documentation prior to claim submissions.
  • Collaborate with Siemens Energy business areas, suppliers, customs brokers, and other Customs Compliance functions to align processes, monitor changes in duty programs, and support compliance improvements and digitalization initiatives.
  • Support responses to CBP inquiries about FTA and preferential programs, complete daily and special tasks per SE Customs Internal Control Program and regulations, and report key performance indicators as needed. Provide training, guidance and assistance to business areas and the U.S. Customs operation regarding CBP’s duty optimization programs requirements and obligations.

What You Bring

  • BS degree or equivalent of education and experience in related field.
  • 4+ years of related experience.
  • Knowledge of 19 CFR U.S. Customs regulations. Licensed Customs Broker or Certified Customs Specialist is a plus!
  • Experience with ERPs, preferably SAP, and Global Trade management software.
  • Adaptability, effective collaboration across cultures, organizational, problem-solving, analytical, and interpretative skills.
  • Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

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.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

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.

Rewards

  • Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture
  • Company paid Health and wellness benefits
  • Paid Time Off and paid holidays
  • 401K savings plan with company match
  • Family building benefits
  • Parental leave


Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Siemens Energy or Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local
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