Job Description
Interns gain hands-on experience moving freight, handling customs tasks, and managing information in a fast-paced logistics environment that teaches trade processes. Working alongside professionals helps build skills in consolidation, forwarding, and order management, preparing new graduates for careers in international-trade logistics.
Expeditors functions as a Fortune 500 company with more than 18,000 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 300 locations across six continents, providing customized solutions for international trade needs including freight consolidation, customs brokerage, and logistics services.
Interns handle a variety of customers, learn process terminology, work independently and on teams, organize tasks with timeliness, pitch in on projects, communicate verbally and written effectively. They operate in office settings with desks, phones, computers, performing tasks like data entry, filing, routing shipments using shipment tracking systems, and assisting in vendor consolidation or inventory management. The internship demands a strong work ethic, adaptability, self-starting attitude, in-person collaboration, and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
The program offers structured experience with hourly compensation from $18 to $22, focused on local Seattle area positions, requiring a college or university student status, completion of company-defined background check; benefits include sick time, dependent care flexible spending account, commuter benefit, employee assistance program, training and personal development program, 401(k) retirement plan if age 18 or older; schedule allows for academic flexibility.
Responsibilities
- Work side-by-side with employees learning freight processes, terminology, skills
- Handle a variety of customers
- Assist in consolidation and forwarding of air or ocean freight
- Support customs brokerage, vendor consolidation tasks
- Help with order management, warehousing, distribution
- Pitch in on projects or assist team members
Requirements
- Strong work ethic, reliable, professional attitude
- Sense of urgency, adaptable, self-starter
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Ability to interact professionally with various people
- Work independently and with a team in fast-paced environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Fully qualified and experienced in Microsoft Office Suite
- Local applicants only
- Must pass company's defined background check