Logistic Specialist

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Ensure timely, reliable, compliant, and cost-effective movement of aircraft parts, rotables, consumables, engines, tooling, and ground support equipment across all stations, suppliers, repair vendors, and maintenance locations.
• Coordinate domestic, transborder, and international shipments, including air, ground, courier, expedited, oversized, multimodal, AOG, and time-critical movements.
• Select the most appropriate freight mode, carrier, route, and service level based on urgency, operational impact, delivery requirement, and total cost.
• Actively reduce freight, customs, brokerage, storage, demurrage, expedited shipping, accessorial, and other logistics-related costs.
• Validate freight, broker, courier, and carrier invoices against quotations, contracts, rate cards, shipment records, and service levels.
• Identify and recover billing errors, duplicate charges, incorrect accessorial, avoidable premium freight, and non-compliant routing costs.
• Track shipments from sourcing, repair, or purchase order through pickup, transit, customs clearance, delivery, receipt, and closure.
• Improve shipment visibility, tracking processes, dashboards, escalation procedures, routing guides, and standard operating procedures.
• Proactively resolve shipment delays, customs issues, documentation gaps, routing problems, carrier failures, and delivery exceptions.
• Ensure compliance with customs, import/export, dangerous goods, trade, aviation, and shipping documentation requirements.
• Provide guidance on HS codes, tariff classification, country of origin, Incoterms, valuation, free trade agreements, and repair-and-return shipments.
• Manage day-to-day coordination with Maintenance, Materials, Procurement, Stores, Finance, suppliers, repair vendors, freight forwarders, customs brokers, carriers, and station teams.
• Support carrier, broker, and freight forwarder performance reviews, rate optimization, contract improvements, and cost reduction initiatives.
• Analyze logistics data and report on freight spend, customs costs, on-time delivery, shipment exceptions, premium freight usage, billing discrepancies, carrier performance, and savings opportunities.
• Support routine, urgent, and AOG logistics requirements.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of experience in logistics, transportation, customs, freight forwarding, supply chain, aviation materials, MRO, or a related field.
• Post-secondary degree, diploma, or certificate in supply chain, logistics, transportation, international trade, aviation management, business, or a related discipline. CCS, CIFFA, CITT, or equivalent certification is an asset.
• Aviation, airline, aerospace, MRO, aircraft parts, AOG, or time-critical logistics experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience with air, ground, courier, international freight, customs brokerage, freight forwarders, and carrier management.
• Strong knowledge of customs regulations, import/export requirements, trade agreements, tariff classification, customs clearance, and shipping documentation.
• Experience reviewing freight invoices, validating carrier charges, analyzing logistics costs, and supporting contract or rate optimization is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to improve processes, increase shipment visibility, and reduce logistics costs.
• Experience with SAP, MRO systems, inventory systems, freight portals, or transportation management systems is an asset.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel and Outlook.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• High attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to work effectively in a high-pressure, fast-paced operational environment.
• Ability to climb more than 10 steps in a warehouse environment.

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