Specialist Customs & Trade Compliance

Join CPKC, North America’s first transnational railroad connecting U.S., Canada, and Mexico, where your career drives progress and safety is paramount. We connect communities, fuel economic growth, and provide meaningful work in a culture that values diversity, accountability, and pride. With opportunities for training, development, and advancement, you’re not just building a career—you’re part of something bigger. Together, we move goods, connect people, and create lasting change. Your future starts here.

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:

The Specialist Customs & Trade Compliance Contractor will assess and redesign CPKC’s customs and trade compliance function across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The contractor will evaluate current processes and controls, develop an RFP for customs brokerage and customs services, benchmark practices across CPKC, support provider selection, and recommend a scalable future operating model covering governance, organization, process, data, and technology. This is an individual-contributor engagement with no direct or indirect reports.

This is a 12-month fixed term opportunity.

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Assess customs and trade compliance processes, controls, roles, systems, documentation, broker oversight, and data flows across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico


• Identify compliance gaps, duplicated activities, unclear accountability, financial exposure, and opportunities to strengthen governance and standardization


• Develop requirements, scope, service levels, pricing structure, implementation expectations, governance, and evaluation criteria for a three-country customs brokerage and customs services RFP


• Support bid analysis, due diligence, provider selection, negotiations, and transition planning


• Benchmark how CPKC teams manage customs and related trade compliance activities and define opportunities to consolidate work and eliminate duplication


• Recommend a scalable operating model, including accountability, decision rights, oversight, policies, controls, performance measures, issue escalation, records, data, and technology requirements


• Develop a prioritized roadmap with actions, owners, timing, dependencies, resource needs, risks, expected benefits, and measurable outcomes


• Facilitate working sessions and present findings and recommendations to Sourcing, Legal, Tax, Finance, Operations, Information Technology, Internal Audit, and executive sponsors.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, Business/Commerce, or a related field with a strong quantitative focus


• U.S. Licensed Customs Broker or equivalent international certification, education, and experience


• Minimum of 6 years of customs and trade compliance experience in complex, cross-border operations spanning the U.S., Canada, and Mexico


• Demonstrated experience assessing compliance programs, controls, broker performance, customs data, and operating models


• Experience developing customs brokerage or customs services RFPs, evaluating providers, negotiating service requirements, and supporting implementation


• Experience with customs audits, disclosures, corrective action plans, duty programs, classification, valuation, origin, and recordkeeping


• Railroad, industrial, transportation, or other asset-intensive operating experience is an asset

WHAT CPKC HAS TO OFFER:

• Onsite Gym


• Free Parking

PRE-EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS:

Drug Testing

• This position is subject to a negative company drug test

 Background Investigation

• Criminal history check


• Education verification


• Professional references


• Social Security Number verification

BECOMING A RAILROADER:

As an employee with a North American presence, the possibility does exist that the location of your position may be changed based on organizational requirements.

Management Conductor Program

Becoming a qualified conductor or locomotive engineer is the single best way for a management employee to learn the business at CPKC. You may be required to obtain a certification or to maintain your current certification/qualification as a conductor or locomotive engineer.

CULTURE OF INCLUSION:

For our U.S. applicants, CPKC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, inclusive of protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For Canadian applicants CPKC is an employment equity employer committed to the principles of employment equity and inclusion. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply including: women, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), members of the LGBTQ+ community and people with disabilities. Accommodations for the job application process can be provided, as appropriate, upon request. All applicant information will be managed in accordance with the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

• Req ID: 106666


• Department: Procurement


• Job Type: Fixed Term


• Position Type: Non-Union


• Location: Kansas City, Missouri


• Country: United States


• % of Travel: 0-10%


• # of Positions: 1


• Job Grade: 4


• Job Available to: External

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