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Overview
Import export managers in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft organise procedures for international trade in technically complex goods.
In job descriptions, look for import-export strategy, customs compliance, export control, embargo rules, commercial documentation, international market performance, financial risk, vessel or aircraft types and contact with partners across cultures.
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Search jobsWork context
This role manages cross-border routines for machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft. Work often connects technical specifications, transport constraints, customs documents and export-control checks before equipment can move.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes customs compliance, export-control principles, embargo rules, aircraft and vessel types, commercial documentation, financial risk in international trade and coordination with technical sales or logistics teams.
Salary context
Pay context is shaped by equipment value, shipment complexity, compliance exposure, number of markets, technical product scope, financial risk responsibility and authority over import-export strategy.
Career paths
Experience can lead toward industrial export management, machinery or aviation trade coordination, export-control leadership, supply-chain management or commercial operations for technical equipment.
Good to know
Check whether adverts specify equipment categories, aircraft or vessel exposure, export-control duties, customs systems, documentation ownership, freight partners, risk approvals and language expectations.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for import export manager in machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft work. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Activities of agents involved in the wholesale of machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include import export manager in textile industry machinery, import export manager in agricultural machinery and equipment and import export manager in office machinery and equipment.
Explore this activityWholesale of other machinery and equipment
This occupation may also occur in this activity. Other occupations there include import export manager in textile industry machinery, machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft distribution manager and textile industry machinery distribution manager.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 1
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
11-3071.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
The official mapping connects this O*NET occupation to many ESCO occupations.
Source and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Mapping project version 1: O*NET-SOC 2019 → ESCO 1.1.0. Targets are validated against ESCO 1.2.1.
Source: European Commission, joint ESCO Secretariat and USDOL/ETA project. O*NET Database: USDOL/ETA. This presentation uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
AltoTrail preserves the source relationship type. The order is technical and does not show which occupation is best, most relevant or recommended.
AltoTrail validates and presents the source relationships without adding ranking or recommendation semantics.
Official sources and licenses
NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
46.64Wholesale of other machinery and equipment46.14Activities of agents involved in the wholesale of machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft
Alternative labels
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industrial equipment
ships and aircraft
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Occupation group
import export manager (1324.3.2)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/12142c2c-9b6f-4e4f-8153-f1a51554e4e0 |
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| ESCO code | 1324.3.2.20 |
| ISCO group | 1324 |
| Concept type | Occupation |