Company Overview
Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas—including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation.
Wherever we operate, we build vertically integrated full stacks of capability—designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation. With operators and engineers under one roof, we close the gap between lab and field—what we call connecting design with effect.
Metrea’s solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieve outsized, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.
Position Summary
The Global Logistics & Customs Specialist plays a critical role in ensuring the compliant, efficient, and timely movement of high‑value aerospace and defense material across the UK and EMEA. This position owns end‑to‑end import/export execution, customs brokerage coordination, and ATA Carnet management, operating at the intersection of logistics execution and trade compliance. The role partners closely with operations, supply chain, engineering, legal/compliance, and external logistics providers to mitigate regulatory risk while enabling uninterrupted mission execution
What You’ll Do
- Trade Compliance Oversight: Manage UK and EMEA customs, import/export operations, ensuring accurate declarations, classifications, valuation, origin, and preferential trade compliance.
- Multi-Modal Logistics: Coordinate with approved freight forwarders, customs brokers and carriers across UK and EMEA to plan, coordinate and execute air, ocean, road, courier, AOG (Aircraft on Ground), Dangerous Goods shipments in compliance with global transport regulations using complete, compliant shipment documentation. Optimize Incoterms® usage, manage exceptions, and drive on‑time delivery across complex logistics networks.
- Export Controls & Sanctions: Act as a gatekeeper for compliance with UK, EU, U.S., and UN export controls and sanctions, including ITAR/EAR ‑controlled items and technical data transfers and UK/EU dual-use items, ensuring adherence to licenses (OGEL/SIEL) and sanctions screening.
- Master Data Governance: Maintain critical product trade master data, including HS codes, ECCNs, Dual‑Use, Military List classifications, and origin data.
- Audit Readiness: Prepare, review, and audit comprehensive UK (CDS) and EU transit/customs declarations and maintain audit‑ready regulatory records for HMRC and ECJU inspections while driving internal SOP development and staff training.
- Special Procedures & Duty Mitigation: Oversee and execute duty mitigation and special customs procedures, including Inward/Outward Processing, bonded movements, Customs Warehousing, and AEO standards to optimize duty spend and compliance.
- ATA Carnet Administration: Execute and manage ATA Carnets and temporary admissions full lifecycle supporting penalty‑free movements of prototypes, test equipment and demonstration assets to ensure zero-penalty temporary movements.
- Performance Analytics: Track and report on KPIs such as clearance cycle times, broker/ freight forwarder performance, and declaration accuracy to drive continuous improvement.
What You’ll Bring
- 5+ years of experience in global logistics and customs within the UK/EMEA region, preferably in aerospace, defense, or another regulated industry.
- Expert knowledge of UK CDS, strong working understanding of UCC, NCTS, Rules of Origin, customs valuation, and Incoterms® 2020.
- Proven experience managing ATA Carnets across non‑EU borders.
- Experience with UK/EU export controls, licensing, end‑use/end‑user checks, and sanctions screening.
- Familiarity with dangerous goods regulations (IATA/ICAO, ADR).
- Proficiency with ERP, TMS, WMS, and Global Trade Management systems; advanced Excel skills.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate regulatory requirements into operational guidance.
- Legal right to work in the UK and willingness to travel within EMEA (approximately 15–25%).
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
- Professional certifications (UK Customs Practitioner, ICC/ICS Carnet, IATA DG Cat 6, CILT).
- Experience supporting AEO programs.
- Exposure to ITAR/EAR re‑export and technical data controls.
- Experience with MoD, government programs, or prime defense contractors.
Our Firmware
At Metrea, our single core value, Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes—Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.
Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.
Benefits
Private Medical Insurance
Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub
Electric Car scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Salary sacrificed pension scheme
Free lunch on office days
Enhanced Parental Leave
30 days annual PTO plus b/h
Bonus Scheme
Personal development opportunities
Right to Work
The employee will have the legal right to work in the (relevant country) and will be able to produce right to work documentation.
Equal Opportunities Statement
Metrea Management Limited (MAM) (edit as per capability) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work (please verify the below)
This is a full-time non-exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs. Exempt Employees must have the ability to be on-call and available, as business needs require. Non-Exempt employees may be required to work over 40 hours per week with approval from the department manager.
Work Location
London, UK
Work Environment
This job operates in an office setting with occasional visits to warehouses and hangers
Travel
Up to 25% of travel, including international travel
