Overview
Customs Shift Clerk Jobs in Kent, England, United Kingdom at DHL Global Forwarding
Title: Customs Shift Clerk
Company: DHL Global Forwarding
Location: Kent, England, United Kingdom
SHIFT PATTERN:
4 days on, 4 days off, 4 nights on, 4 nights off (7am-7pm / 7pm-am)
Who is DHL Global Forwarding?
DHL Global Forwarding (DGF) is part of the DHL Group. While the DHL Group employs more than 580,000 people globally, DGF has around 31,000 freight forwarding experts in more than 190 countries around the world, with around 1,000 of us based in the UK across 15 Sites. As the experts in Freight Forwarding since 1815, we are the global specialists in Air, Ocean and Rail Freight.
You name it, we’ve shipped it – from brown bears to aircraft engines, to lifesaving medicines and luxury cars! We are also proud to partner with some of the well-known global sporting series, movie franchises and music tours.
Our people are at the heart of what we do, and we’re committed to helping our Forwarders to realise their full potential, supported by our own development journey – Certified International Forwarder
(CIF).
Our Values
Every day we are guided by our values: Passion, Entrepreneurship, Excellence and Teamwork.
We are extremely passionate about our people and what we do, which is why DHL Global Forwarding is recognised as a Top Employer and a Great Place to Work, because we are specialists in providing Excellence, Simply Delivered.
In addition to our values, we promote an open and honest feedback culture based on Respect & Results, whereby our employees embrace diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, while ensuring that we never compromise our integrity and compliance.
Role Overview
Liaise with customers to co-ordinate customs entries for the shipment of goods; full declarations both imports and exports, transition declarations (T1’s) applicable on exports, and CFSP frontier and supplementary declarations as required by the customer.
Key Responsibilities:
- Liaise with customers to co-ordinate customs entries for the shipment of goods; full declarations both imports and exports, transition declarations (T1’s) applicable on exports, and CFSP frontier and supplementary declarations as required by the customer.
- Provide information to customers, freight forwarders, hauliers and DHL internal stakeholders in a timely and appropriate manner promoting excellent customer service and engagement.
- Ensure all documentation is completed to meet timelines, and process requirements.
- Ability to deal with critical requirements, and problem solve activities within processing timelines.
- Maintain all customs entries files both electronically and also hard copy files where required for certification and documents.
- Manage queries from the Global Service Centre (GSC) and also responses from HMRC and other UK Governmental Departments in terms of declaration responses.
- Sending and issuing data to the Global Service Centre (GSC) where applicable.
- Ensures that all interactions are compliant with DPDHL Code of Conduct and other compliance requirements e.g. anti-corruption
- Contribute to the First Choice continuous improvement program
Skills and Experience:
- Strong IT skills
- Good communicator
- Excellent telephone manner
- Strong organisation and planning skills
Benefits:
- A competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Eligibility to participate in the Employee Incentive Bonus Scheme
- Pension scheme which includes life assurance
- Access to professional employee assistance and wellbeing programme
- A competitive package of voluntary benefits including retail, entertainment, gym membership, cycle to work scheme, contribution to eye care costs, and many more discounts
- Training and Development opportunities with a strong focus on internal promotion
HOURS/SHIFT PATTERN: 4 days on, 4 days off, 4 nights on, 4 nights off (7am-7pm / 7pm-am)
REPORTS TO: Customs Manager
What’s Next?
If you would like to be considered for this position, then please apply using the jobs board with a copy of your CV outlining your experience to date and suitability for the role.
