OPEN JOB: Senior Specialist, Trade Compliance LOCATION: Arlington Virginia
***This is a fully onsite position ***Relocation Assistance Available SALARY: $84,000 to $156,000 JOB DETAILS: Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off
INDUSTRY: Aerospace / Aviation / Defense IDEAL CANDIDATE - The ideal candidate will have experience in Trade Compliance within the Aerospace and Defense industry, OCR EASE experience.
- ITAR experience is required.
DETAILS: - A Senior Specialist has the responsibility for assisting the Empowered Official (EO) to meet their goals of developing, implementing and managing export/import compliance and controls, including but not limited to the specific responsibilities as defined in Corporate Policy.
- The Sr. Specialist must be able to work effectively with a cross-functional team to keep the company in compliance with U.S. trade regulations while also helping to foster international growth within the business.
Essential Functions: - Determine U.S. Government requirements for situations related to daily export/imports activities to support the objectives or our locations goals.
- Process shipment paperwork using EASE for all exports of hardware
- Submit to GTG (Global Trade Group) initial drafts and final license, agreement, and general correspondence, allowing adequate time for corporate and government review.
- Ensure compliance with approved license applications, agreements, general correspondence, and permits/licenses with limitations, provisos and requirements.
- In conjunction with the EO, simultaneously notify the company's Division/Subsidiary legal counsel and the Segment Trade Director when any violation or potential for a violation has been identified which could lead to a fine, penalty, seizure, and/or disciplinary action is, or has the potential to be, imposed upon the Corporation by the U.S. or foreign government for non-compliance with export/import requirements. Provide technical and other assistance necessary to support investigation and disclosure of potential violations.
- Support investigation and give other assistance necessary to address a potential or actual violation.
- Develop and conduct export/import and ITAR training consistent with corporate guidance, and that specific to this the company's location regarding its products and services.
- Review export/import activities to determine if action needs to be directed to specific departments or individuals for potential inaccurate transactions associated to the company's activities. Self-audits will be conducted as required by corporate procedures to ensure those actions have been taken and are consistent.
- Works directly with shipping carriers and brokers to give direction on export/import clearances.
- Ensure that the export of controlled technical data via electronic means, e.g. e-mail, facsimile or internet, has been approved for export under U.S. Government laws and regulations
- Ensure all commercial exports for hardware, software and technical data has an official Jurisdiction Classification (JC) completed via segment Technical Specialist (TS)
- Reviews visitor requests to determine necessary course of action if the visitor is a Foreign National or other US Persons.
- Review all employee foreign travel, business or personal.
- The ECC per GTG policy must attend at least one internal Export/Import & Compliance Training Seminar and one external Export/Import & Compliance Training Seminar.
- The ECC per GTG policy must attend Annual International Licensing Conference in order to remain current with the company's Policies and U.S. Government Export/Import Laws and Regulations and maintain this appointment.
- Complete GTG Practitioner training suite within 6 months of employment.
Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree with 9 years prior experience, Graduate Degree with 7 years prior experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
- Minimum 1 year experience with US trade regulations (ITAR, EAR) in a professional role
Preferred Additional Skills: - Prior Empowered Official (EO) experience
- Ability to learn different products groups and their related capabilities for the specific location from which they work.
- The ability to effectively coordinate simultaneous activities, and successfully prioritize multiple tasks with good judgment while working independently.
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to interface with personnel at all levels, both verbally and in writing.
- Exhibits a high level of integrity and discretion.
- Adept with utilizing computer software applications, e.g. Adobe, Web-based applications, MS Excel, MS Word.
- Experience with Team Center, EASE is helpful - or ability to quickly learn systems.
If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please respond back and include the following:
- MS WORD Resume
- required compensation.
- Contact information.
- Availability
Upon receipt, one of our managers will contact you to discuss the position in full detail.
STEPHEN FLEISCHNER Recruiting Manager INTERMEDIA GROUP, INC. EMAIL: sfleischner@intermediagroup.com