Global Logistics and Customs Specialist

Overview

Company Overview
Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas—including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation.

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas—including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. Whereever we operate, we build vertically integrated full stacks of capability—designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation.

With operators and engineers under one roof, we close the gap between lab and field—what we call connecting design with effect.

Metrea’s solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieve outsized, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats. Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.

The Global Logistics & Customs Specialist plays a critical role in ensuring the compliant, efficient, and timely movement of high‑value aerospace and defense material across the UK and EMEA. This position owns end‑to‑end import/export execution, customs brokerage coordination, and ATA Carnet management, operating at the intersection of logistics execution and trade compliance. The role partners closely with operations, supply chain, engineering, legal/compliance, and external logistics providers to mitigate regulatory risk while enabling uninterrupted mission execution.

• Trade Compliance Oversight:
  Manage UK and EMEA customs, import/export operations, ensuring accurate declarations, classifications, valuation, origin, and preferential trade compliance.
• Multi-Modal Logistics:
  Coordinate with approved freight forwarders, customs brokers and carriers across UK and EMEA to plan, coordinate and execute air, ocean, road, courier, AOG (Aircraft on Ground), Dangerous Goods shipments in compliance with global transport regulations using complete, compliant shipment documentation. Optimize Incoterms® usage, manage exceptions, and drive on‑time delivery across complex logistics networks.
• Export Controls & Sanctions:
  Act as a gatekeeper for compliance with UK, EU, U.S., and UN export controls and sanctions, including ITAR/EAR‑controlled items and technical data transfers and UK/EU dual-use items, ensuring adherence to licenses (OGEL/SIEL) and sanctions screening.
• Master Data Governance:
  Maintain critical product trade master data, including HS codes, ECCNs, Dual‑Use, Military List classifications, and origin data.
• Audit Readiness:
  Prepare, review, and audit comprehensive UK (CDS) and EU transit/customs declarations and maintain audit‑ready regulatory records for HMRC and ECJU inspections while driving internal SOP development and staff training.
• Special Procedures & Duty Mitigation:
  Oversee and execute duty mitigation and special customs procedures, including Inward/Outward Processing, bonded movements, Customs Warehousing, and AEO standards to optimize duty spend and compliance.
• ATA Carnet Administration:
  Execute and manage ATA Carnets and temporary admissions full lifecycle supporting penalty‑free movements of prototypes, test equipment and demonstration assets to ensure zero-penalty temporary movements.
• Performance Analytics:
  Track and report on KPIs such as clearance cycle times, broker/ freight forwarder performance, and declaration accuracy to drive continuous improvement.

• 5+ years of experience in global logistics and customs within the UK/EMEA region, preferably in aerospace, defense, or another regulated industry.
• Expert knowledge of UK CDS, strong working understanding of UCC, NCTS, Rules of Origin, customs valuation, and Incoterms® 2020.
• Proven experience managing ATA Carnets across non‑EU borders.
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