[Hiring] Senior Manager, Compliance @ATS Automation

Role Description

Industrial Automation (IA) is seeking a Senior Compliance Leader to design, lead, and operate a comprehensive global compliance program supporting regulated, high-consequence customer environments across the United States, Canada, and international operations.

Reporting directly to the Global Vice President, Technology, this role is a key member of the Leadership Team and is structured as a remote position. The successful candidate may work remotely from anywhere within North America, with periodic travel as required to support business operations, customer engagements, leadership meetings, audits, and regulatory activities.

This role owns IA’s end-to-end compliance framework, including:

• Export controls
• Regulatory risk management
• Third-party compliance
• Training
• Investigations
• Internal controls

Ultimately, the role is responsible for ensuring IA maintains a scalable, enterprise-grade compliance program aligned with global regulatory requirements, customer expectations, and business growth objectives.

As IA’s senior compliance authority, the role partners closely with:

• Legal
• Engineering
• Operations
• Quality
• IT
• HR
• Supply Chain
• Executive leadership

The position provides strategic guidance to leadership while enabling compliant growth, supporting innovation, strengthening customer trust, and ensuring IA can confidently pursue opportunities in highly regulated industries and government-supported programs worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum 8+ years of progressive experience in compliance, export controls, trade compliance, or regulated industry risk management, preferably in industrial manufacturing, advanced technology such as aerospace, energy, or nuclear adjacent sectors.
• Experience with Quality Assurance Systems (ISO 9001, AS9100, NQA-1) and Lean Manufacturing is a plus.
• Demonstrated experience building, leading, and operating compliance programs in complex, global organizations.
• Direct experience supporting nuclear or other highly regulated industrial environments, including export-controlled technical data, licensing and authorization processes, and related operational controls; experience with nuclear-controlled requirements and/or ITAR-regulated activities would be an asset.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and work effectively across functions and geographies.
• Strong judgment, independence, and ability to balance compliance rigor with commercial realities.
• This position requires access to export-controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must be a U.S. national also defined as: (i) U.S. citizen (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8U.S.C. § 1158.

Requirements

• Experience supporting both U.S. and Canadian operations.
• Experience operating in cross border or multinational environments.
• Background in environments involving government customers, sensitive technologies, or regulated infrastructure.

Benefits

• Competitive starting salaries
• Overtime pay eligibility
• Paid vacation
• Company paid short- and long-term disability and life insurance
• Comprehensive health benefits
• 401K matching program
• Employee Incentive Bonus program
• Optional Employee Share Purchase Program
• Flexible work schedules
• Employee events
• Free coffee beverages
• Employee referral program
• Safety shoe programs