Senior Trade Compliance Specialist

Position Title: Senior Trade Compliance Specialist (STCA)
Reports To: Contracts & Compliance Manager

Job Summary
The Senior Trade Compliance Specialist is responsible for site export and import compliance programs and implements, and improves on policies and procedures for Trade Compliance. As a STCS, you are the main focal for all Trade Compliance matters. The STCS is also responsible for handling complex export and/or import situations with guidance from Senior Corporate Trade Compliance personnel.
Primary Responsibilities
Essential functions of the position include, but are not limited to:
 

• Coordinate with all necessary departments to perform transaction processing and transaction due diligence, analysis of red flags, complex troubleshooting, develop and modify training and procedure writing, and management of trade compliance recordkeeping systems ensuring consistency standardization, and coordination with business partners, freight forwarders and customs brokers and various internal departments.
• Serves as the primary focal point for license generation and administration, including technical assistance, manufacturing and distribution agreements. This person is responsible for the development, submittal, monitoring, execution, and tracking of these agreements as assigned.
• Prepare complex license or permit applications, and other international business documents for review and approval by corporate trade compliance and/or compliance manager as necessary.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in trade compliance. Continuously increase knowledge and understanding of the export compliance arena. Remain aware of and communicate changes in policies.
• Transact records in trade compliance information systems (e.g OCR).
• Perform and analyze transactions for which due diligence indicates potential risk.
• Prepare, review and approve technology control plans, and provide technology transfer oversight (including visits and travel).
• Has the independent authority to enquire into any aspect of a proposed export or import, verify its legality and the accuracy of the information to be submitted, and stop any site transaction
• Work pro-actively with departments to prevent trade disruptions.
• Collaboratively with all departments to ensure they have implemented effective compliance internal controls into their procedures and work instructions, and providing trade compliance training.
• Advise the management and senior staff about trade compliance matters, providing trade compliance oversight to all site activities.
• Perform analysis review on commodity and technical information for government jurisdiction and classification.
• 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 with affected internal departments including Sales, Contracts, Purchasing, Logistics, Returns, and Production Control.
• Analyze and interpret export and import regulations and maintain current knowledge of changes.
• Support special projects and complete other responsibilities associated with the position
• Maintain the highest ethical standards, even when challenged from above.
• Understand and live by the Company’s ethics and business policies.
• Demonstrates leadership behaviors and attributes, and is a role model for others in the organization.
• Embodies Palomar’s three value drivers (Profitable new business, Value Price and Productivity).

Qualifications

• Excellent communication, writing and presentation skills
• Strongly motivated, engaged and self-driven
• Proven good judgment, organizational and problem-solving skills

• Experience with international business transactions and shipping documents.
• Experience with the OCR EASE trade compliance information system highly desired
• Capable of working independently on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors
• Ability to prepare and review international shipping documents such as commercial invoice, packing list, air waybill, and export license; including consignee information, INCOTERMS, harmonized tariff code and nomenclature, country of origin, customs value, export classification, and license data
• Ability to work calmly under pressure and with frequent interruptions.
• Be an Empowered Official or must have all required training to qualify of being an Empowered Official
• Demonstrate knowledge of US export/import regulations including ITAR, EAR, OFAC
• Must be a US citizen

Education/Previous Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or a related field
• At least six years of experience of Trade Compliance in the Aerospace Industry
• Six years of experience with export and/or import regulatory compliance
• 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).

Salary Range: $110k - $140k