Trade Control Officer

**Trade Control Officer**:

- Location: Bristol, GB, BS3 2HQ- Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid**Job Title: Trade Control Officer**
**Location: Bristol, UK - working from home options available**
**Compensation: Competitive salary + benefits**
**Role Type: Full time / Permanent**
**Role ID: SF49878**

**It starts with you**

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Trade Control Officer at our Ashton Vale site.

As an international defence company, we support and enhance our customers’ defence and security capabilities and critical assets, meeting their requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.

**Mission Systems**

The Trade Control Officer role is based within our Mission Systems business area.

Babcock is a trusted provider of integrated solutions for global defence and security. We have a wide portfolio of best-in-class intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance solutions, communications, and weapons launch and handling solutions across all domains, integrating the best of industry to meet our customers’ needs.

**The role**

**The difference our new Trade Control Officer will make**

As a Trade Control Officer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be working in a small but highly effective team that is responsible for managing Trade Control compliance. You will be providing leadership and maintaining an environment that promotes compliance with applicable trade control laws and regulations of the UK, US, EU, and others as applicable, managing all trade compliance requirements on behalf of the company.

Day to day, you'll ensure that employees have received the appropriate trade controls training and facilitating signing of authorisation packages and other trade control required documentation, ensuring investigations of non-compliance and validation of classifications of products. You'll also work with the Trade Control Team at both a Sector and Group level to ensure continual review and improvement to policy and procedure in pursuit of operational excellence. You will be required to manage business demand and obtain all necessary permissions and licences through the UK’s SPIRE portal as well as enabling the granting of internationally originating permissions and licences through strategic collaboration with external stakeholders.

At Babcock, we have a history of helping talent go far. With our track record of innovation, you’ll continually develop your knowledge and expertise.

We offer flexible working to give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met. This role provides hybrid working arrangements with 1 day in the office/onsite and 4 days working from home.

**Essential experience**
- Degree qualified or equivalent experience
- A strong level of experience within the trade compliance domain
- Knowledge of legislative and regulatory requirements (UK/EEC and US ITAR/EAR) relevant to the industry across various businesses
- You are someone for whom collaboration and working in partnership comes naturally. You will bring ideas and solve complex problems with simple and elegant solutions. We’re looking for someone who can hit the ground running in a fast-paced environment
- You must be able to achieve SC clearance

**What we offer**

Generous benefits including:

- Generous holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays
- Reservist in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
- Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
- Our Big Benefit Platform allows you to make your money go further, with discounts from over 850 retailers.
- Employee Share Plan
- Professional memberships, personal development training an opportunities
- STEM ambassador training and volunteering opportunities
- Working from home and flexible work patterns
- Employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
- Flexible benefits, including cycle to work scheme, discounts and our Share Ownership Scheme
- Autonomy. Trusted and empowered to be at your best

**Babcock International**

For over 130 years, we have helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. Change begins with our people and our shared Principles**: be curious; be courageous; own **and **deliver; think: outcomes; collaborate; **and **be kind**. These values not only guide the way we work, but also our efforts to reach net-zero carbon. Yes, our ambitions are big, but together, we can achieve them.

**Armed Forces Covenant**

We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant. If you are a reservist in the armed forces, we provide up to ten days special paid leave in support of your training commitments.

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