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Overview
The role covers hardware, plumbing and heating goods, where product specifications, hazardous-chemical rules, dual-use checks, carriers, quotes and delivery deadlines can affect shipments.
In job descriptions, look for hardware or HVAC products, plumbing fittings, import and export regulations, dangerous chemicals, customs compliance, multimodal logistics, shipment forwarders, carrier quotes and commercial documentation.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
This trade role follows hardware, plumbing fittings and heating equipment through purchasing, shipping, customs paperwork and delivery coordination. Product knowledge helps avoid errors in part numbers, materials and compliance documents.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes hardware and HVAC products, dangerous-chemical import/export rules, dual-use checks, customs compliance, forwarder communication, carrier quotes and multimodal logistics.
Salary context
Pay context depends on product variety, regulatory checks, delivery deadlines, supplier network, documentation accuracy and how much responsibility the role has for resolving customs or transport blocks.
Career paths
Development can move from shipment documents into trade compliance, building-supply logistics, supplier coordination, procurement support or product-category specialist work for hardware and installation goods.
Good to know
Check whether a vacancy names fittings, heating equipment, hazardous chemicals, dual-use screening, customs declarations and delivery terms. Those details show the practical product risk in the role.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay 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.
Wholesale of hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is wholesale merchant in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies.
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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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Click the map to search for import export specialist in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment jobs. Figures come from EURES. Searches open national sources where available, so counts may differ.
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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
Customs Brokers
13-1041.08
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.
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Official sources and licenses
NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
46.84Wholesale of hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies
Alternative labels
senior export specialist in hardware
plumbing and heating equipment
trainee import export specialist in hardware
graduate export specialist in hardware
assistant import export specialist in hardware
senior import specialist in hardware
senior import export specialist in hardware
trainee export specialist in hardware
assistant export specialist in hardware
trainee import specialist in hardware
customs compliance specialist in hardware
graduate import export specialist in hardware
graduate import specialist in hardware
assistant import specialist in hardware
Occupation group
import export specialist (3331.2.1)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/3ae7c42b-7929-402f-bcbc-882b8679abf4 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 3331.2.1.16 |
| ISCO group | 3331 |
| Concept type | Occupation |