Job Description

Execute and manage import/export trade compliance activities across all John Crane sites in Mexico, ensuring full adherence to Mexican customs regulations while supporting John Crane’s general duty mitigation progamme and operational efficiency.

Strategy and Governance

•Help coordinate cross functional execution in Mexico to drive appropriately embedded and operationalized changes, as needed, to John Crane’s trade compliance function in Mexico.

•Help align day to day operational processes in Mexico with corporate governance policies, controls, and ethics standards from Smiths Group.

•Actively monitor, through effective processes, changes in the geopolitical climate impacting Mexico in order to help advise senior leadership on regulatory risks and mitigation strategies.

Compliance Operations

•Serve as a subject matter expert providing clear compliance advice on international trade activity matters relating to Mexico.

•Be accountable for the controls, operational processes and frameworks required to ensure John Crane meets its export control and sanctions, customs, and antiboycott compliance obligations, as applicable, in Mexico and ensure such items are firmly embedded within our Mexico operations. Actively monitor regulatory changes to ensure any warranted changes to the same are made as appropriate / required.

•Manage and assist with, as required, John Crane’s global trade compliance activities, including product classifications, export licensing, import permitting and customs clearing, restricted party screening, recordkeeping, and self-assessments, done by the business units in Mexico, and track completion of corrective measures, if any.

•Help conduct audits,



investigations and remediation activities in Mexico to support Internal Audit and Ethics & Compliance.

•Monitor, measure and report on John Crane business units’ adherence to applicable laws, regulations and procedures in the conduct of trade activity in Mexico.

Tariff Mitigation

•Help devise strategy and coordinate cross functional teams to reduce current cost and risk exposure to US and other applicable tariffs in Mexico.

•Help deliver tariff modelling, forecasting and scenario planning.

•Help drive free trade zone and free trade agreement (including USMCA) utilisation and duty recovery initiatives.

Digital and Process Transformation

•Help implement the automation of classification, transaction screening and documentation workflows.

•Help implement enhanced governance for classification (export and import) and country of origin assignment and traceability in Mexico.

Risk Management and Assurance

•Assess and continuously monitor our trade compliance risk profile in Mexico and ensure its controls, processes, and frameworks to mitigate the risks are effective and fit for purpose.

•Ensure audit readiness and regulatory adherence.

•Help investigate potential compliance failures relating to Mexico, as applicable, and implement corrective actions as appropriate/required.

Stakeholder Engagement and Capability Building

•Directly report to John Crane’s Senior Regional Trade Compliance Manager, Americas, and work with a global network of other trade compliance managers and specialists.

•Help drive training, upskilling capability, tools and standardized ways of working in Mexico.

•Partner with Finance, Legal, Data, Commercial, Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Supply Chain, and, as needed, external advisors.

📌 Import/Export Specialist (Cuautitlán Izcalli)
🏢 John Crane
📍 Cuautitlán Izcalli