Customs has over 1,000 job vacancies

Bureau of Customs. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines—The Bureau of Customs has over 1,000 job vacancies in first and second level positions for the agency’s various groups, offices, and collection districts across the country.

“By filling up these vacancies, we will be able to provide a faster and better standard of service for importers, exporters and the public dealing with Customs,” said Customs Commissioner John P. Sevilla.

There are 1,056 jobs up for grabs.

Available job positions include: Customs Operations Officer (COPO) I, II, III, and IV, (Salary Grade [SG] 10, 11, 13, 16, and 18 respectively); and Administrative Officer (ADOF) I, II, III, IV, and V (SG 10, 11, 15, and 18 respectively). The complete list of job vacancies as well as the application procedure is available at the BOC website at www.customs.gov.ph.

“On the average, we have over 3,000 entries and over 6,000 individual items being imported every day,” Sevilla said. “Around 4,000 containers arrive in the country everyday that we need to inspect. In order to facilitate these transactions we need additional manpower.”

“Right now, there are only 3,600 employees in BOC tasked to do a lot of mandates. The lack of manpower is further aggravated by natural attrition due to retirement, resignation, death, as well as dropping from the rolls, and dismissal from service,” Sevilla said.