Senior International Trade Officer
Pitstone, Tring, Hertfordshire
£ Competitive
Benefits: 8% Bonus, Excellent Pension, 33 Days Holiday, Dental, BUPA, Workplace nursery scheme, Midday finish on Fridays, Enhanced family friendly policies, Wellbeing programme, Employee assistance programme including health and finance, Onsite subsidised canteen
Skills: ITAR, EAR, SAP, Import & Export, UK & EU control regulations knowledge, Analytical, Trade compliance
At Safran Electrical & Power, we recognise that aviation needs to innovate and change in order to protect our environment. We believe that future aircraft power systems will be hybrid-electric or full-electric, which is why we are working to develop and deliver advanced electrical solutions to help decarbonise flight.
The UK Safran Electrical & Power team has expertise in designing and developing electrical systems comprising generators, power conversion, distribution and control, with developing expertise in electric motors for aircraft propulsion.
If you want to help deliver this future, we are looking for enthusiastic and creative people to join our team.
The Role
As a Senior International Trade Officer at Safran Electrical & Power you will maintain the trade and export compliance of the company. You will use your innovative and analytical skills to produce effective solutions to ensure compliance to ITAR, EAR and HMRC Import regulations. With support from a Trade Officer, you will coordinate internal audit processes and implement improvement actions to optimise performance as directed by the Trade Compliance Manager.
- Actively engage with all aspects of the business to ensure the business is compliant with all relevant regulations
- Manage day-to-day activities including Daily Block Report circulation and ensuring invoice approvals are accurate
- Coordinate the business internal export audit processes, continuously improving actions to enhance performance and efficiency
- Coordinate all exports, application and reporting requirements of required licenses to maintain compliance with all applicable export legislation
- Ensure new starters with the business maintain export compliance
- Support the Trade Compliance Manager as required
Desirable Experience
We are looking for candidates with a range of skills and experience, but we're also keen to help people grow and develop in this role. If you have some or all of the following, we'd love to hear from you:
- Detailed knowledge of import and export compliance regulations, including ITAR & EAR
- Comfortable interfacing with all stakeholders including customs brokers, forwarders and suppliers.
- Aptitude to learn how to use in-house business systems efficiently
- Knowledge of aerospace or manufacturing beneficial
- Excellent analytical skills
- Evidence of written English at interview stage.
Get involved:
We also have a number of groups and forums onsite that you can get involved with, including Women at Safran, STEM ambassadors, employee forum, charity partnerships and wellbeing programme.
Our Wellbeing Programme in Pitstone aims to place employee wellbeing at the heart of our business, and we integrate it within all that we do. The programme is made up of four wellbeing committees; Healthy Minds, Physical, Social & Financial. Our enhanced family friendly policies re-enforce our commitment to providing a workplace that is both diverse and inclusive.