Trade Controls Specialist

Location: UK, Flexible + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Help enable global defence programmes through expert compliance and regulatory guidance. At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Trade Controls Specialist supporting our Land Sector business across multiple UK locations.

The role:

As a Trade Controls Specialist, you'll play a vital role in helping Babcock deliver and grow complex defence and international programmes. Working with stakeholders across the business, you'll provide expert advice on trade controls, export compliance, licensing and regulatory requirements, ensuring projects are delivered compliantly while supporting strategic growth. This is an opportunity to join a specialist team at the heart of programme delivery, where your expertise will help protect the business from regulatory risk while enabling the movement of products, technology, software and information across global markets.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Providing specialist trade controls and export compliance advice to project teams and business functions.
• Managing import, export, transfer and licensing activities in line with regulatory requirements.
• Identifying and supporting the management of trade controls risks, sanctions and due diligence obligations.
• Supporting bids and business development activities by identifying compliance requirements early in the process.
• Maintaining compliance records, supporting audits and delivering guidance and awareness training across the business.

This role is full time working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Hybrid working patterns are available. Regular travel to Babcock sites including Andover, Bovington, Bristol, Plymouth and Walsall will be expected.

Essential experience:

• Experience within Trade Controls, Export Controls, Customs Compliance or a related compliance and governance discipline.
• Working knowledge of UK Export Control legislation and licensing requirements.
• Ability to interpret legislation, policy and regulatory requirements and translate them into practical business solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to engage confidently across all levels of an organisation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify practical solutions to complex challenges.

Qualifications:

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

What we offer:

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.

Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance. We call that lifetime engineering. Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 01/09/2026