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Overview
Specialists apply detailed import and export knowledge to capital goods, machinery products, aircraft types and shipment documents, often with freight forwarders and insurance contacts.
In job descriptions, look for customs compliance, multimodal logistics, commercial documentation, dangerous chemicals or dual-use export rules, shipment forwarder contact and claims handling.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
This work is documentation-heavy because the goods are large, technical or regulated. The specialist connects customs clearance, freight forwarding, commercial papers and product knowledge for machinery, industrial equipment, ships or aircraft.
Skills and specializations
Useful depth includes capital goods, machinery products, aircraft types, dual-use export rules, dangerous-chemical import-export rules and multimodal logistics. Precision matters in codes, claims, insurance files and shipment handovers.
Salary context
Pay is best compared through goods value, regulatory complexity, shipment modes, insurance exposure, documentation authority and responsibility for customs errors or delayed equipment.
Career paths
A path can lead from import-export administration to trade compliance, project logistics, forwarding coordination, industrial supply-chain roles or specialist customs work.
Good to know
Check whether a vacancy names the goods, transport modes, customs documents, forwarder contact, insurance claims and any dual-use or dangerous-goods responsibility.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay data.
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O*NET relationships
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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.
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Official sources and licenses
NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
46.6Wholesale of other machinery, equipment and supplies
Alternative labels
graduate export specialist in machinery
industrial equipment
ships and aircraft
senior export specialist in machinery
international trade compliance specialist in machinery
assistant import specialist in machinery
graduate import export specialist in machinery
trainee export specialist in machinery
trainee import specialist in machinery
trainee import export specialist in machinery
senior import export specialist in machinery
senior import specialist in machinery
assistant import export specialist in machinery
assistant export specialist in machinery
graduate import specialist in machinery
customs compliance specialist in machinery
Occupation group
import export specialist (3331.2.1)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/b53209fa-ba54-4a7a-b71c-bcc8014053ec |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 3331.2.1.20 |
| ISCO group | 3331 |
| Concept type | Occupation |