International Trade & Compliance Specialist
Prescott, AZ
Full Time
Trade Compliance
Experienced
Position Summary:
The International Trade & Compliance Specialist is responsible for handling
complex international trade compliance situations with oversight and guidance
from senior staff. Responsibilities include coordination with staff that
performs transaction processing and transaction due diligence, complex
troubleshooting, assisting with training and procedure writing, and management
of ITC recordkeeping systems.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Administer the company site export and import compliance programs,
including acting as corporate liaison or contact.
- Stay current with local, regional, and corporate trade compliance
regulations; report changes that may impact the trade compliance program.
- Provide advice for product, destination, or re-export license
determination and technology screening.
- Performs transactional due diligence for external visitors (vendors,
contractors, etc.)
- Prepare and analyze transactions for which due diligence indicates
potential risk.
- Prepare complex license or permit applications, ATA Carnets, and other
international business documents for review and approval by an ITC manager.
Assist in managing government authorizations throughout their life cycle.
- Work pro-actively with departments to prevent trade disruptions.
- Coordinates with internal and external customers on license statuses.
- Resolves Trade Compliance issues, ensuring approval of a license to
support business needs.
- Review customer's specs and ensure that all our specs are up to date.
- Work with engineering to determine EAR/ECCN/ITAR classification for new
products.
- Perform calculations for preferential treatment under Free Trade
Agreements.
- Place and release the export hold on transactions.
- Analyze contracts and identify trade compliance issues.
- Performs document control activities, including review and release of
document revisions, ensuring accurate documentation is managed and tracked.
- Partners with Engineering to ensure product manufacturing and product
design documentation is current and refreshed.
- Monitor and manage ITC recordkeeping.
- Assist site leadership with analysis of export and import regulations
and tracking of changes.
- Prepare and provide annual Trade Compliance training to company
employees.
- Maintain trade compliance repository and records to ensure consistency
and standardization.
- Prepare and verify export shipping documentation for ad-hoc and other
non-routine shipments.
- Process and validate non-routine import shipping documentation.
- Troubleshoot, track and trace domestic and international shipments,
coordinate shipments with freight forwarders and customs brokers, and with
customers or suppliers.
- Perform other related duties as directed.
- Participate in Training as directed.
- Domestic and international travel required; up to 10%.
Job Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Current familiarity with the International Traffic in Arms Regulations
(ITAR), Export Administration Regulations (EAR) including anti-boycott
regulations, sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control
(OFAC), Customs Regulations (CR), and the Foreign Trade Regulations (FTR).
- Familiarity with national customs requirements, export licensing,
economic sanctions and arms embargos, re-export, and retransfer requirements
under the U.S.
- Familiar with International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and
Export Administration Regulations (EAR), U.S. sanctions administered by the
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and U.S. anti-boycott regulations.
- Strong computer skills including the ability to research orders and
prepare reports in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Manufacturing
Resource Planning (MRP) information systems
- Ability to perform spreadsheet calculations, and quickly learn new
software tools.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to
prepare business letters and complete forms.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain rigorous
accuracy/quality standards.
- Capable of working with little day-to-day instruction on complex issues
where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of
variable factors.
- Ability to work calmly under pressure and with frequent interruptions.
- Strong analytical skills. Must be data-driven and have computer skills
in word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and interaction with customer
portals.
- Ability to work independently and resolve practical problems.
Qualifications & Experience:
- BA or BS degree in Business Administration, Law, or related discipline
required.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience with export and/or import regulatory
compliance and with international business transactions and shipping
documents.
- Additional professional-level experience may substitute for the
degree, as appropriate.
- At least 2 years of experience working with business, customer, or
supplier contracts and program milestones.
- At least two years of experience working with ITC information systems or
platforms.
- Experience with the OCR EASE ITC information system.
- To conform with US export regulations and ITAR 120.15 and EAR Part 772,
incumbents for this role should be eligible for any required authorizations
from the US government.
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