Logistics Coordinator

• Transportation & Freight: Arrange and track inbound and outbound shipments negotiate rates and optimize routing to reduce freight costs. Manage physical movement of raw materials or finished products from one point to another (e.g. by road rail air or sea).
• Inventory Control: Monitor stock levels manage warehouses and reconcile discrepancies to guarantee product availability.

• Documentation & Compliance: Prepare bills of lading manage customs clearance paperwork and ensure adherence to safety and trade regulations. Manage licenses maintain record-keeping per regulatory requirements and resolve shipping or clearance delays.
• Customs Compliance: Liaise with customs brokers and freight forwarders to prepare and audit accurate shipping documents like commercial invoices and certificates of origin.

• Vendor & Customer Relations: Serve as the main liaison between suppliers carriers and clients to resolve fulfillment issues and meet delivery timelines.
• Warehousing: Providing a secure strategic facility for storing goods before they are needed. It bridges the gap between production timelines and consumer demand.
• Troubleshooting: Identify and resolve logistical bottlenecks transit delays and fulfillment errors
• Trade Agreement Administration: Manage Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) country-of-origin determinations and duty drawback programs.
• Audit & Risk Management: Monitor internal controls lead customs audits and prepare standard operating procedures (SOPs) to mitigate corporate risk.
• VAT & Indirect Tax Management: Advise on global Value-Added Tax strategies for cross-border transactions. You will oversee the correct calculation reporting and recovery of import/export VAT and duties to optimize supply chain costs. Partner with finance and indirect tax teams to calculate and apply correct VAT duties and Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) codes. Optimize recovery on cross-border transactions.
• Export Controls & Sanctions: Ensure global shipments comply with U.S. export regulations (such as ITAR and EAR) OFAC restrictions and denied-party screening. You will classify goods secure licenses and maintain export documentation.

• Education & Experience: A Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Business Administration Logistics combined with 35 years of direct experience in trade compliance customs brokerage.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in enterprise software systems (e.g. SAP GTS Oracle GTM) and deep knowledge of Harmonized Tariff Schedules (HTS).

• Soft Skills: Exceptional negotiation problem-solving and time-management skills to thrive in high-paced distribution environments.

• Knowledge: Good understanding of U.S. export control regulations and regional tax/VAT laws.
• Skills: Strong analytical problem-solving and communication skills to influence cross-functional teams and external vendors
• Communication: Strong interpersonal skills to effectively liaise with suppliers carriers and internal teams.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently

Company Description:

Lapmaster International LLC is a leading international precision machine tool builder headquartered in Chicagos Northwest suburbs near OHare Airport. Our diverse team works with a broad variety of industries and technologies. Our technical expertise includes Motion Control Robotics Automation Machine Design and Application Engineering. Our customers include small mid-sized and Fortune 100 companies in a variety of industries including Automotive Aerospace Semiconductor Electronics Bearings Optics/Electro-optics Pumps Valves Compressors and Medical Devices. Our business model is to utilize leading technologies and exceptional engineering talent coupled with outstanding customer service to solve manufacturing and precision machining problems.

Since 1948 industry has relied on Lapmaster to solve the most challenging precision surfacing problems. With over 60 years of experience Lapmaster has a proven history of successfully developing cost effective processing solutions for virtually any application requiring precision sizing flatness parallelism roundness straightness or surface finish. Lapmaster serves the Fine Grinding Advanced Materials Precision Optics Bore Honing and Finishing Lapping/Polishing and Metallographic markets through an expanding network of sales and services offices located throughout the world. Sales and technical service is available either through local Lapmaster Sales Representative or through our main Sales and Technical Services Centers located in Mount Prospect IL Plymouth UK Chennai India Tokyo Japan and Shenyang China.

Competitive Benefits Package for Full Time employees:

• 401(k) with Matching
• Medical Insurance (Company contribution for Dependents)
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Company Paid Life & AD&D
• Vacation Sick Holidays
• EAP

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or at any time in the future

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer (EEO)

It is the policy at Lapmaster International to provide equal employment opportunities and affirmative action to all qualified individuals. All personnel actions including but not limited to compensation benefits recruitment hiring training and promotion of persons in all job titles are administered without regard to race color sex sexual orientation gender identity age religion national origin protected veteran or disability status and all employment decisions are based solely on valid job addition employees and applicants are protected from harassment threats coercion intimidation or discrimination

EEO is the Law (English)

Recruiter Policy:

Lapmaster International LLC (aka Precision Surfacing Solutions) the Company has an internal recruiting function. The Company may supplement that internal capability from time to time with assistance from temporary staffing agencies placement services and professional recruiters (Agency). Agencies are hereby specifically directed NOT to contact employees of the Company directly in an attempt to present candidates. The Companys policy is for the internal recruiting team or other authorized personnel to present ALL candidates to hiring unsolicited resumes sent to Lapmaster International LLC from a third party such as an Agency including unsolicited resumes sent to a Company mailing address fax machine or email address directly to Company employees or to the resume database will be considered Company property. Lapmaster International LLC will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Lapmaster International LLC will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees.

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