About this role
<div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Position Summary</b></H2> </div><div><p><strong>Location:</strong> Based in Deeside, Flintshire. Full time onsite position <br><strong>Travel:</strong> Approximately 10% travel to France and Germany and travel between business sites, customer and supplier locations as required</p> <p> </p> <p>Lead International Trade Compliance across UK/EU operations, ensuring adherence to export controls, sanctions, and customs requirements, including EU level regulations, national German and French controls, UK and IOM requirements, and extraterritorial US ITAR/EAR rules. Serve as the regional subject matter expert, embedding effective controls, supporting business operations, and managing trade compliance risk, with a direct management of a trade compliance Analyst in the UK and indirect oversight over designated trade compliance leads at the EU sites.</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Essential Duties and Responsibilities</b></H2> </div><div><p>• Act as the UK/EU subject matter expert and escalation authority for complex and high-risk trade compliance matters.<br>• Act as the primary trade compliance contact for UK/IOM, with functional responsibility across France and Germany.<br>• Own and deliver day-to-day trade compliance activities while defining and embedding scalable processes and controls across UK/EU sites.<br>• Collaborate with key stakeholders across Legal, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain and Commercial teams to ensure trade compliance is integrated into business processes and decision making.<br>• Drive alignment of trade compliance practices across sites, balancing regulatory requirements with operational practicality and varying levels of site capability.<br>• Maintain and update Trade Compliance policies, procedures and resources.<br>• Ensure compliance with UK export controls, EU regulations (including German and French national controls), and extraterritorial US ITAR/EAR requirements.<br>• Own and execute export licensing activities for UK/IOM (OGEL, SIEL, F680, ITAR, EAR), while providing oversight and support for licensing in Germany and France.<br>• Own export control classification for goods, technology and software, and maintain robust classification processes across supported sites.<br>• Oversee cross-border shipments, transfers and access to controlled technology, ensuring compliant movement and handling<br>• Provide expert guidance on sanctions, embargoes and trade restrictions, supporting business decision-making.<br>• Lead tariff classification and customs compliance for UK/IOM, providing guidance and operational support to EU sites on valuation, origin and simplified procedures.<br>• Oversee courier approvals, logistics processes, customs spend reviews and continuous improvement initiatives (for UK/IOM sites).<br>• Identify, assess and mitigate trade compliance risks, supporting investigations, corrective actions and voluntary disclosures where required.<br>• Conduct monitoring activities, internal compliance checks and support internal/external audits, ensuring timely closure of corrective actions.<br>• Conduct third-party screening and approvals in line with site requirements.<br>• Manage business travel and visitor approval processes in line with UK and US regulatory requirements. <br>• Deliver training, guidance and day-to-day support to engineering, operations, supply chain and commercial teams.<br>• Manage and develop the UK Import/Export Administrator and provide operational cover where required.</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b> Job Requirements</b></H2> </div><div><p><strong> Job Requirements, Desired Knowledge, Skills & Abilities</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>• Knowledge of Trade Compliance laws, regulations and ISO requirements with demonstrable experience and knowledge of export and customs compliance<br>• Experience in a similar role with a medium/ large-scale Defence/Aerospace business<br>• Proactive, results focused and demonstrated ability to meet deadlines <br>• A ‘hands-on, can-do approach’, coupled with excellent attention to detail, organisational, and problem-solving skills <br>• Broad understanding of business processes and methods (e.g. Supplier/ Manufacturing/ Quality means and methods, capabilities and constraints)<br>• Excellent communication and written skills; with ability to influence and resolve conflict as required<br>• Able to communicate and work effectively with all levels of management/ non-management including within the company, external customer organisations and authorities<br>• Previous experience in design and delivery of staff training is desirable<br>• Excellent IT and system skills – including MS Office, SharePoint, database and ERP systems. </p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b> Position Details </b></H2> </div><div><p>• Reports to the Triumph Group Senior Manager of International Trade Compliance with matrix to Site Leader UK & IOM .<br>• Member of Group/COE structure with regional responsibility across UK/EU sites.<br>• Amalgam role with primary UK base and EU site engagement.<br>• 37 Hours Per Week, Full time onsite at Triumph’s UK – Deeside location.<br>• Travel required within UK, IOM and EU as required.</p></div></div></div>