Shipping and Compliance Controller

Job Description

Job Title: Shipping and Compliance Controller

Working Pattern: 37hours/week Monday to Friday (with potential for on call support, subject to business requirements)

Working location: Bristol onsite with opportunity for hybrid working once trained (3 days/week onsite)

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We have an exciting opportunity for a Shipping and Compliance Controller to join our Defence Logistics team in Bristol. As a Shipping and Compliance controller you will be responsible for the generation of compliant shipping paperwork to enable Rolls-Royce Defence to ship our products all over the globe. This is a business-critical role and is the final point of contact for our customers prior to receiving their products.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

As a Shipping & Compliance Controller you will be responsible for the generation of compliant shipping paperwork to enable Rolls-Royce Defence to ship our products all over the globe.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

This role will require an individual to operate the shipping process ensuring compliance with agreed service levels, metrics and behaviours, including controlling service provision from our external logistics partners where appropriate. The successful candidate would be expected to operate and improve the services which support shipping operations to ensure full compliance to all procedures and processes that support Export Control, Customs/Tax, Airworthiness & Quality functions.

What We Offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What You Will Be Doing

With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:

• Adherence to Shipping KPIs – Understanding, measuring and reporting service provision performance against defined service level, cost and behavioural standards. (Global / Regional vendor code responsibility)
• Shipping SME – be a subject matter expert on the shipping processes and share that knowledge with others within the company an externally.
• Business Criticality Understanding – Have full understanding of shipping demand and capacity for operational service lines & service lines in development.
• Communicate demand to logistics service providers, both internal & 3rd Party Logistics (3PL)
• Export and Import trade compliance

Who We’re Looking For

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

To be successful in this role you will need to:

• An awareness of the regulatory requirements involved in the shipping processes
• Attention to detail and a good understanding of ERP systems (i.e. SAP)
• Has external track record of controlling logistics services in a 3PL environment (desirable)
• Has external track record of freight management and shipping (desirable)
• (Or) Has completed Rolls-Royce Supply Chain Planning & Controls Graduate Training Scheme with attachment in Global Physical Logistics

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Closing date: 13/07/25

For more information: Chris Jefferies

Job Category

Supply Chain Planning & Control

Posting Date

30 Jul 2025; 00:07

Posting End Date

12 Aug 2025 #J-18808-Ljbffr