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:
Criminal history check
Education verification
Professional references
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 ProgramBecoming 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).
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