Export Compliance Lead

Fusion Energy Base; Abingdon; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

UK Atomic Energy Authority is seeking an Export Compliance Lead to drive export control compliance across projects. You will act as SME for regulatory obligations, supporting export/import arrangements and advising on the transfer of controlled items and technology within UKAEA.

The role reports to the Transport Manager in the Transport Team at UKAEA. This full-time position requires SC clearance eligibility and a DBS check, with onsite work at Culham, Oxfordshire.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent business experience.
• ITAR/EAR export control knowledge with ECOP certificates or equivalent.
• Experience with export control laws and regulations.
• Proven ability to conduct investigations and audits.
• Subject matter expert for export control enquiries.

Responsibilities

• Navigate UK Strategic Export Control Lists to determine if exports require a licence.
• Provide authoritative advice to projects on transport and import/export.
• Support interface with regulators or external authorities.
• Prepare export licence applications and apply licence conditions.
• Assure transport arrangements via audits, inspections and self-assessments.
• Communicate export control and dangerous goods transport across UKAEA; deliver CBT training and maintain related sections on Nucleus.

Skills

Export control knowledge

Investigations & audits

Regulator liaison

Computer literacy

Education

Degree or equivalent

Job description

Export Compliance Lead

Onsite working is expected for 3 days each week, however we actively support requests for flexible working. This role can be based at any of the following sites: Culham, Oxfordshire. This role requires employees to be eligible for SC Clearance (must have resided in the UK for the last 5 years), including the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.

We invite you to join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Export Compliance Lead, you will play a pivotal role in understanding, applying and implementing Export Control compliance obligations at business level as the subject matter expert (SME) supporting these exciting programmes within UKAEA. You will report to the Transport Manager within the Transport Team at UKAEA. The job holder will also support the implementation of import/export arrangements at UKAEA, providing advice on the regulatory aspects of the transfer of controlled items/technology and overseeing consignments to and from the site. This role offers an opportunity to bring your export control knowledge to an established and growing team and support the business as we move towards project delivery.

Salary

£51,317 + excellent benefits including outstanding pension

Key Responsibilities

• Navigate The UK Strategic Export Control Lists to form the basis of determining whether any products, software or technology that you intend to export are ‘controlled’ and therefore require an export licence.
• Provide authoritative advice to projects and managers on transport and import/export.
• Support the interface with the relevant Regulators or external authorities.
• Make export licence applications (applications and applying licence conditions).
• Provide assurance of the adequacy of transport arrangements through overview of audits, inspections, investigation of events and self-assessment reviews.
• Ensure effective communication with respect to export control and transport of dangerous goods across UKAEA to include the delivery of training (Radioactive Materials Co-Ordinator, Export Control and the creation of CBT packages) and the maintenance of the transport of dangerous goods and export control sections on Nucleus.

Programme

Department: Risk and Assurance

Discipline: Quality Assurance

Site Location: UKAEA Culham, Oxfordshire

Type of Employment: Full-time

Reference Number: REF4450Z

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent business experience.
• ITAR Export Control Regulation – ECOP Certificate – Formal Professional qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience with a view to undertaking certification.
• EAR Export Control Regulations – ECOP Certificate - Formal Professional qualification to be resat every 2 years or demonstrable equivalent experience with a view to undertaking certification.
• Detailed experience of export control laws and regulations.
• Experience of conducting effective investigations and audits.
• Be a subject matter expert to support and advise on export control enquiries in a timely manner.
• Acquire a thorough knowledge of Government policy and concerns relevant to import-export and export control.
• High degree of computer literacy.

Additional Information

A full list of our benefits can be found here.

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