John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a general leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies.
We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. 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 global duty mitigation progamme and operational efficiency.
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. 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.
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 enhanced governance for classification (export and import) and country of origin assignment and traceability in Mexico.
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.
Help investigate potential compliance failures relating to Mexico, as applicable, and implement corrective actions as appropriate/required.
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.
Must be able to speak, read and write fluently in English and Spanish.
Significant experience with trade compliance responsibilities with a company with Mexican operations.
Significant experience in managing international trade issues relating to Mexico within a complex global supply chain environment.
Experience in developing and implementing compliance policies, processes and procedures.
Experience with ERP systems. Experience with SAP ERP and SAP GTS and also QAD ERP, beneficial. Experience with export and import controls, economic sanctions, anti‐bribery/anti‐corruption and other trade laws, regulations and requirements, as applicable, administered by Mexico.
Experience with export and import controls, economic sanctions, anti‐bribery/anti‐corruption, and other trade laws, regulations and requirements applicable in Mexico that are administered by jurisdictions outside of Mexico (e.g., Experience helping conduct compliance audits and drafting reports.
Experience assisting with internal investigations of potential non‐compliance.
Experience explaining complex regulations to non‐expert stakeholders in a clear and understandable manner and helping turn the requirements into business actions.
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📌 Import/Export Specialist (Ciudad de México)
🏢 Smiths Group
📍 Ciudad de México