compliance officer Huddersfield, England
Job description
We are looking for an Export Control & Compliance Manager to join our Quality department. The role is a permanent position, based at Reliance Precision Limited (Huddersfield, West Yorkshire) with occasional travel to our sister company’s manufacturing site in Southern Ireland.
Reporting to the Head of Quality the successful candidate will ensure compliance with Export and Import Control, Trade, Security and other Compliance related legislation as it applies to Reliance’s activities across our sites and departments.
Responsibilities include the following but not limited to:
- Generation of compliance policies and procedures
- Maintain and update compliance policies and procedures
- Day-to-day compliance responsibility with support from key functions
- Drive improvements in process and to the company’s IT system
- Ensure records are maintained in electronic and/or hard copy form as necessary
- Develop and roll out training and associated training records
- Monitor and implement impact from legislative and regulatory changes
- Support regulatory audits, including by HMRC, the UK Export Control Joint Unit, customers and the Irish Trade Licensing and Control Unit
- Conduct internal compliance audits
- Act as UK Data Protection Officer for the Reliance group of companies (light-touch)
Accountabilities
Export licensing for controlled goods and technology
- Regulatory regimes include: UK, EU, US EAR & EAR 600 series
- Scope includes: inter-company, customers, supply chain and staff operating abroad
- Classification of goods and technology
- Control of goods and technology (military and duel-use)
- Licencing (OGEL, SIEL, OIEL etc)
- Customer undertakings (end use, stocklist, etc) maintaining undertakings
- Control of technology via company travel
- Denied party screening
General trade and export compliance
- · Regulatory regimes include: EU, Ireland, UK
- · Scope includes: inter-company, customers, supply chain
- · Tariff classification, commodity codes and description of goods (HTS, ECCNs)
- · Origin, Trade Agreements and preference classification
- · Supplier declarations
- · Import and export paperwork compliant with HMRC & Revenues requirements
- · Reconciling information with HMRC & Revenue data
- · Intercompany price agreement and exports
- · Incoterms
- · Inwards Processing Relief (IPR) & Outwards Processing Relief (OPR)
Skills and Qualifications
Essential:
- Degree, HNC/HND in Engineering or similar subject
- Experience in export and customs operations
- IT literate, including willingness to adapt to bespoke sales management and order processing system
- Exceptional attention to detail, and talent for accuracy and precision
- Critical thinking skills and the ability to research and understand legal and financial implications
- Strong process ownership and stakeholder management, in order to manage colleague expectations of the need for robust compliance
Desirable:
- Knowledge and experience within an aerospace manufacturing environment
- Knowledge of materials and substances compliance (ie. REACH, RoHS, Conflict Minerals)
- US ITAR
- UK CA and EU CE marking experience
Personal Attributes
- A self-starter, capable of delivering high quality, complex work with minimum supervision
- Act with integrity as a guiding principle
- A keen eye for detail
- A dynamic, but calm, individual able to deal with complex and sometimes pressured work in a measured way
- Rapid assimilator of information in order to get up to speed with Reliance’s business environment, and those of its customers
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £30,000.00-£43,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Canteen
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Huddersfield, HD8 0LE: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:
- Diploma of Higher Education (preferred)
Experience:
- export control: 2 years (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 14/07/2023
