Export Control Manager (820165)

Salary range: £59,966 - £67,468 per annum

FTE: 1

Term: Open-ended

Closing Date: 23 June 2026

Location: NMIS, Renfrew

The University of Strathclyde has a long history of working with industry to deliver strong business growth from access to research and innovation expertise. The latest major initiative continuing to deliver on this track record is through the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS).

As a magnet for innovation in advanced manufacturing, the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) group of specialist R&D centres, supports manufacturing, engineering and associated tech businesses of all sizes, to thrive domestically and internationally through accelerating productivity, embracing new digital technologies and achieving net-zero targets.

We turn smart ideas into reality and deliver ground-breaking research.

Coming from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, our passionate team works alongside industry, academia, and the public sector to solve problems, train the workforce of the future and generate the creative ideas that will transform manufacturing.

Ultimately, we are growing the economy, developing a vibrant and skilled talent pool and helping create prosperous, sustainable communities.

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to join the NMIS Operations Team, leading compliance to export control legislation and relevant sanctions imposed, ensuring relevant activities are carried out with the highest degree of integrity. You will also be working to ensure appropriate due diligence is carried out on the partners, customers and members we work with. This is to help us meet the growing demand for international collaborations and the expansion of technology areas we work in within NMIS.

The successful candidate will play a leading role in enhancing current export control, sanctions and due diligence processes, boosting the knowledge and skills of our workforce in relation to these areas and in the provision of expert advice where needed enabling compliant delivery of our projects to partners and customers wherever they are in the world.

Due to the nature of the work the candidate will be involved in, security vetting may be required and as such, it is essential that the candidate is able to gain UK security clearance at the level deemed appropriate by the organisation (this could be DV, SC or BPSS clearance).