Import/Export Specialist (Trade Compliance)

Location: Cuautitlán Izcalli, Estado de México, Mexico

Employment type: Full-time

Company

hirify.global is part of Smiths Group, a global engineering organization operating across security and defence, energy, space and aerospace, and general industrial markets. The related John Crane business provides mission-critical flow control solutions and digital monitoring technologies for energy and process industries.

What you will do

• Manage import/export trade compliance activities across John Crane sites in Mexico and ensure adherence to Mexican customs regulations.
• Maintain controls and operational frameworks for export controls, sanctions, customs, anti-boycott requirements, classification, licensing, permitting, screening, recordkeeping, and self-assessments.
• Develop tariff mitigation strategies, including tariff modelling, forecasting, scenario planning, free trade zone and USMCA utilization, and duty recovery initiatives.
• Support automation of classification, transaction screening, documentation workflows, and country-of-origin governance.
• Conduct or support audits, investigations, remediation, risk assessments, and corrective actions while maintaining audit readiness.
• Partner with Finance, Legal, Data, Commercial, Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Supply Chain, external advisors, and global trade compliance stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Fluent spoken, written, and reading English and Spanish.
• Significant trade compliance experience in companies with Mexican operations and complex global supply chains.
• Deep knowledge of Mexican customs processes, including Ley Aduanera and the IMMEX program, plus customs broker management.
• Experience with compliance policies, procedures, audits, investigations, export and import controls, economic sanctions, anti-bribery and anti-corruption requirements, and tariff management.
• Experience with ERP systems and solid financial and analytical capabilities; SAP ERP, SAP GTS, QAD ERP, and other trade compliance management systems are relevant.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with colleagues across a global network spanning more than 50 countries.
• Access employee resource groups supporting inclusion and connection, including Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Women@Work Network, and Neurodiversity.
• Recognition through the annual Smiths Excellence Awards and Smiths Day global celebration.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• No recruitment fees or other recruitment-related costs are charged to staff.