Responsibilities:
- Ensuring site compliance with internal requirements (manuals, policies, and procedures) and in accordance with domestic and foreign import and export laws and regulations.
- Ensure legal compliance with relevant export regulations associated with trading export-controlled products.
- Maintain Customs & Export compliance procedures and program documentation, including import and export instructions, documentation; trade data points such as HTS classification, country of origin, broker management; record keeping; audits and training.
- Act as a site trade compliance point of contact for local organisation.
- Review Customs entries for accuracy and compliance with customs regulations and CITC policies and procedures.
- Provide relevant trade compliance data to UK Customs & Exports Compliance Leads and CITC.
- Support regular Customs/Export compliance training for senior management, engineers, shipping logistics, sales and marketing and other functions involved in import and exporting, as required.
- Support periodic audits and self-audits and implement corrective action, as required.
- Liaise with internal customers: provide Trade Compliance support to the customer service & logistics departments.
- Organise proficient record keeping of export authorisation documentation, maintain updated databases, track in-process and pending licenses applications and use.
- Assist with the implementation and maintenance of internal Trade Compliance policies and procedures.
- Perform denied party screening.
- Support site management accountability and responsibility for import and export compliance.
- Assists UK Country Export Lead in export licensing process.
- Assist the Trade Compliance Lead in conducting periodic audits and self-audits and implementing corrective action, as required**.**
About you:
- Advanced knowledge of UK and US import and export regulations or willingness to undertake the training required.
- Experience in managing export licenses or willingness to undertake the training required.
- Excellent communication skills (verbal, written and presentation);
- Problem solver- Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner and can interpret a variety of instructions.
- Able to constructively work under stress and pressure when faced with high workloads and deadlines; able to make sound and timely business decisions.