# Senior Global Shipping & Receiving Specialist

**Company**: Shield AI
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Defense Technology

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## Description

The Senior Global Shipping & Receiving Specialist is responsible for executing and coordinating domestic and international shipping, receiving, inventory control, export compliance, import operations, and warehouse activities. This position serves as a subject matter expert for global logistics operations and ensures the timely, compliant, and efficient movement of equipment, parts, and customer deliveries worldwide.

Responsibilities:

- Execute domestic and international shipments via various modes of transport.

- Coordinate import and export activities with freight forwarders, customs brokers, and internal stakeholders.

- Prepare and review shipping documentation, including commercial invoices and export licenses.

- Ensure compliance with regulations such as ITAR, EAR, and DG.

- Support customer deliveries, field deployments, and sustainment activities.

- Coordinate Dangerous Goods shipments and receive, inspect, and process incoming materials.

- Maintain accurate inventory records and investigate logistics issues.

- Partner with teams to support operational objectives and implement process improvements.

- Train and mentor junior specialists and support logistics training.

- Provide shipment status updates and logistics reporting.

Required qualifications:

- 5+ years of experience in shipping, receiving, logistics, or supply chain.

- Experience with international shipments and customs processes.

- Knowledge of export control regulations, including ITAR and EAR.

- Familiarity with ERP systems and inventory management.

- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

- Ability to lift materials up to 50 pounds.

- Ability to obtain necessary security clearances.

Preferred qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, or a related field.

- Experience in aerospace, defense, or government programs.

- Dangerous Goods certification.

- Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement experience.

- Forklift certification.

Leadership expectations:

- Serve as a logistics subject matter expert.

- Mentor junior team members.

- Drive process improvements and operational excellence.

- Demonstrate ownership and customer-focused decision-making.

- Partner across departments to resolve logistics challenges.

## Skills

### Required
- logistics
- supply chain
- export compliance
- inventory management
- ERP systems

### Nice to have
- Dangerous Goods certification
- Lean
- Six Sigma
- continuous improvement
- forklift certification

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