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Overview
The work follows waste and scrap products through suppliers, shipment forwarders, customs clearance and delivery checks, with attention to material descriptions, substance rules and accurate commercial paperwork.
In job descriptions, look for waste and scrap products, customs compliance, regulations on substances, dangerous-chemical import-export rules, embargo checks, carrier quotes, multimodal logistics and shipment monitoring.
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Search jobsWork context
Waste and scrap import-export work centers on shipments of discarded, recyclable or recovered materials. The role keeps product descriptions, customs papers, carrier details and delivery records aligned before goods cross borders.
Skills and specializations
Useful practice combines customs compliance, substance-rule awareness, embargo checks, commercial documentation, carrier quotes and multimodal logistics. Waste and scrap roles may also need careful wording around material type and hazardous-content records.
Salary context
Pay context depends on shipment volume, trade lanes, documentation responsibility, direct carrier contact, claims handling and how much judgement the role has over customs or substance-related checks.
Career paths
People may enter from freight forwarding, customs administration, transport coordination, recycling operations or import-export support. Development can lead toward trade compliance, logistics coordination, key-account freight work or materials-sector export roles.
Good to know
Vacancies should name the material stream and the customs or transport tasks. Check whether the role handles only documents or also resolves carrier delays, insurance claims and compliance questions.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for import export specialist in waste and scrap 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.
Wholesale of waste and scrap
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is wholesale merchant in waste and scrap.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
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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
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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.
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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NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
46.87Wholesale of waste and scrap
Alternative labels
assistant import export specialist in waste and scrap
senior export specialist in waste and scrap
graduate import specialist in waste and scrap
trainee import export specialist in waste and scrap
international trade compliance specialist in waste and scrap
senior import specialist in waste and scrap
trainee import specialist in waste and scrap
assistant export specialist in waste and scrap
customs compliance specialist in waste and scrap
trainee export specialist in waste and scrap
assistant import specialist in waste and scrap
graduate import export specialist in waste and scrap
graduate export specialist in waste and scrap
senior import export specialist in waste and scrap
Occupation group
import export specialist (3331.2.1)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/d3ac4c05-79e2-42da-b8c6-e55765aee381 |
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| ESCO code | 3331.2.1.33 |
| ISCO group | 3331 |
| Concept type | Occupation |