Description
- 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.
Skills
air freight, freight forwarder, Supply chain, Freight, logistics, excel pivot tables, mro, mrp system, Transportation, aircraft on ground, dangerous goods, sap
Top Skills Details
air freight,freight forwarder,Supply chain,Freight,logistics,excel pivot tables,mro,mrp system
Additional Skills & Qualifications
MUST HAVE: Minimum five years of experience Air freight forwarding logistics experience
MUST HAVE: Post-secondary degree, diploma, or certificate in supply chain, logistics, transportation, international trade, aviation management, business, (CCS, CIFFA, CITT)
MUST HAVE: Aviation, airline, aerospace, MRO, aircraft parts, AOG, or time-critical logistics experience is strongly preferred.
MUST HAVE: Experience working with customs documentation and import/export processes
MUST HAVE: Advanced Excel skills including: Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, Data analysis and reporting
Job Type & Location
This is a Permanent position based out of Mount Hope, ON.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $100000.00 - $100000.00/yr.
Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Mount Hope,ON.
