- Salary: £30,000 - £40,000
- Full Time
- Permanent
Who we are: SubSea Craft is a fast growing, privately-funded, UK-based innovative maritime technology company specialising in next-generation, high-performance watercraft and systems. We operate at the intersection of advanced engineering, cutting-edge design, and user-centric innovation, delivering safe, effective, and enabling solutions for both commercial and defence applications.
What we offer:
- Annual Leave – Entitlement to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- Wellbeing Day - An additional Wellbeing Day each year to focus on personal health and wellbeing.
- Private Healthcare – Access to comprehensive private healthcare coverage to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
- Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover – Comprehensive protection including Life Assurance (4x salary) and Critical Illness Cover for added financial security.
- Family Leave – Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Christmas Leave – A Christmas shutdown is typically observed.
- Professional Development – Commitment to ongoing learning and career growth, supported by training programmes and access to LinkedIn Learning.
- Pension Contribution – pension scheme with the option to contribute via salary sacrifice
- Flexible Working – Opportunities for flexible working arrangements to promote work–life balance.
- Inclusive Culture – A professional environment that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration.
- Offsite Parking available.
Role Overview
The primary goals of the trade compliance department are twofold: to safeguard the company and its staff by ensuring full compliance with international trade laws; and to support the company's strategic efforts by streamlining cross-border operations, broadening market opportunities, and facilitating global growth initiatives. This position will play a vital role in these objectives, applying your expertise in international trade to establish robust compliance procedures, advise the business, and leverage trade compliance as a strategic asset to drive success.
Responsibilities will include:
- Perform accurate, robust export classification (military, and dual use) of goods, software, and technology at component, system, and platform levels – and manage the classification entries of all items within the company’s ERP system
- Identify the need for export licensing and apply/obtain as necessary to enable business transactions and overseas activities, including the utilisation of licence exceptions and exemptions as an advantage.
- Provide direct support to the company Logistics function for all national and international shipping operations, ensuring all export licensing, customs, and destination-country entry requirements are met.
- Manage all trade compliance recordkeeping to meet regulatory obligations and maintain a high level of audit readiness
- Champion the company's compliance mission by promoting awareness and driving a culture of ethical behaviour across the business.
- Collaborate closely with other teams such as Supply Chain, Security, and Engineering, to ensure compliance requirements are embedded across company operations and processes.
- Act as a trusted and reliable contact point across the business for all compliance related queries to support business operations.
- Proactively engage with departments such as Business Development, Engineering, and Trials, to identify business activities requiring Trade Compliance support and remedy as required.
Qualifications and Experience:
Experience:
- 2-5
years’ experience in a
trade compliance, export controls, customs/logistics, or similar role
(defence/maritime-specific experience an advantage)
- Strong understanding and experience complying with UK export controls including classification and licensing
- Experience in US export controls (ITAR/EAR)
preferred but not mandatory.
- International shipping/logistics/customs experience an advantage.
Skills:
- Excellent stakeholder management: ability to gain buy-in from departments, articulate compliance requirements coherently, and build strong levels of trust
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to pass information clearly and accurately.
- Ability to take complex regulatory information and present it in an accessible and relevant manner for internal departments.
- Strong ethical attitude, comfortable setting boundaries and the confidence to challenge or stop non-compliant activities
- Proactive ability to take initiative - gathering information, finding solutions, without guidance and instruction
Note: Due to the nature of work undertaken at SubSea Craft, the selected candidate must be capable of meeting the security requirements of the position, which would include as a minimum Existing right to live and work in the UK, Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), with Security Check likely for specific projects.*
Values: Our people are our greatest asset, we continually strive to provide an excellent working environment to enable our team to do their best work. We have an agile professional workforce: we are founded on the belief that our people are valued and our business is trusted, inclusive and commercially-adept.
What we expect from you:
- Teamwork, mutual respect and collaboration
- Initiative and independent working
- Honesty and integrity
- Business and commercial awareness
- Agility, adaptability and continuous development
We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know.
- Please note that all offers of employment are conditional and subject to satisfactory DBS, driving licence and reference checks. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify candidates from employment. We will consider criminal record information alongside the wider range of evidence gathered at the application, interview, and pre-employment checking stages.
Due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to respond to everyone. If you are shortlisted, we will aim to contact you within 14 days of your application or the closing date (if stated). We may retain your details for future suitable roles unless you advise us otherwise.
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