Maritime Compliance Officer

• Regulatory Compliance Management: Ensure the company complies with federal, state, local, and tribal regulations relating to our vessel and fishing operations, including but not limited to fishing licenses, permits, vessel registration, fishing operations, and environmental standards.
• Tracking and Reporting: Continuously assess the company’s operations to ensure compliance with relevant laws and work with company operations to ensure timely, complete, and accurate reporting as required by regulatory bodies and internal controls.
• Keep Current: Stay abreast of current laws, rules, and regulations to ensure ongoing compliance. Modify internal processes and reporting to maintain compliance.
• Training and Awareness: Work closely with HR to ensure vessel crew and other employees receive proper training on relevant compliance areas. Engage directly with vessel crew and other employees to maintain open communication related to compliance.
• Audit and Risk Management: Lead internal and external audits to assess compliance levels. Identify potential risks in maritime operations and recommend solutions to mitigate risks.
• Liaise with Regulatory Authorities: Serve as primary point of contact between the company and relevant regulatory bodies. Work to ensure appropriate lines of communication and rapport with regulatory agents and representatives.
• Documentation: Maintain impeccable written compliance records. Work closely with legal department to maintain complete, accurate, and timely records.
• Vessel Resource: Serve as a cross-functional resource on company documentation, compliance, process management. Assist on system implementation as necessary.
• Response: Work closely with legal department to appropriately respond to compliance related enforcement actions.
• Miscellaneous: Assist legal and operations departments on other projects and priorities as necessary.

• Impeccable record keeping and detail orientation required.
• Process orientation with experience documenting and rolling out standard operating procedures.
• Experience implementing compliance software solutions valued.

• Minimum 6 years of relevant maritime or fishing related compliance education and/or work experience. Maritime academy and/or relevant military or government agency experience valued. With this as a minimum, will consider appropriate candidates with significantly more experience.
• Must have record of successful compliance program management and familiarity with relevant regulations;
• Must have experience responding to compliance related enforcement actions.
• Must work well in both corporate and vessel environments and understand the challenges inherent in commercial vessel/fishing operations.

Anticipated hours are: Monday – Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Seattle, WA, based position with occasional travel to Bellingham and/or Alaska to attend to vessels in person.

Overtime and irregular hours are occasionally required depending on vessel operations and schedules.

Position requires in-person attendance.

Work will take place primarily in an office setting and occasionally and as needed at vessel locations.

Benefits: Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision coverage, Life Insurance, Accidental Death and Disability coverage, company paid Family/Medical Leave, Long term Disability, generous commute subsidy, 401K plan with employer match, paid time off, 12 company holidays and annual bonus opportunity

Salary Range: $125,000 - $175,000/annual