Bureau of Customs offers over 1k jobs

The Bureau of Customs is offering some 1,000 jobs in its efforts to fill up the lack of manpower and further improve the agency's service.

BOC Commissioner John Sevilla said the job openings include 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. On the average, we have over 3,000 entries and over 6,000 individual items being imported every day. Around 4,000 containers arrive in the country everyday that we need to inspect,” he said in a statement.

"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 added.

Available job positions include:

Applicants may visit www.customs.gov.ph to download the details and documents required for their applications, fill out the application form and submit it, together with the following supporting documents:


Applicants must submit their applications either personally or by mail to the BOC office located along 16th Street, Port Area South Harbor, Manila.

A special booth will be set up at the lobby of the Office of the Commissioner building to receive applications from Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Provincial applicants may also send their applications via courier.

Deadline for the submission of application is on August 6, 2014.

Applicants with relatives in the BOC of up to the 4th degree of consanguinity are barred from applying for any position in the bureau.

The complete list of job vacancies as well as the application procedure is available at the BOC website at www.customs.gov.ph. — LBG, GMA News