Senior Manager, Compliance

Role Overview

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, and internal controls. While the role’s mandate is broader than any one regulatory area, it will have an important near-term focus on supporting our business growth in highly regulated customer and technology environments, including export controlled technology such as nuclear and aerospace. 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, and executive leadership to embed compliance directly into IA’s operating model. 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.

Specific Responsibilities

Global Compliance Program Leadership
• Design, implement, and continuously enhance IA’s global compliance program, ensuring alignment with applicable U.S., Canadian, and international regulatory requirements, with particular focus on operationalizing requirements for controlled data, technology transfers, licensing, reporting, and cross-border collaboration.
• Establish a cohesive compliance framework covering policies, procedures, governance, training, monitoring, and escalation.
• Serve as the primary compliance leader for IA, providing clear direction, prioritization, and risk based decision making.
Regulated Programs & Export Controls
• Lead IA’s compliance approach for highly regulated customer and technology environments, including U.S. export controls and nuclear regulatory regimes.
• Oversee compliance with applicable export control laws and regulations, including ITAR, EAR, CGP, and nuclear related requirements, across global operations.
• Provide practical, business oriented guidance on controlled data, technology transfers, cross border activities, and supplier engagement.
Operational Integration
• Embed compliance requirements into engineering, manufacturing, IT, supply chain, and program execution, ensuring compliance is effectively and cohesively operationalized.
• Partner with IT to define and maintain technical and physical controls for sensitive or controlled data.
• Collaborate with the Corporate Compliance Centre of Excellence to ensure alignment with ATS Corporation’s global compliance frameworks, standards, and enterprise programs. 
Governance, Risk & Oversight
• Develop and maintain IA specific compliance policies, standards, and procedures consistent with corporate requirements.
• Conduct risk assessments, internal reviews, and compliance testing; identify gaps and lead remediation efforts.
• Establish metrics and reporting to provide senior leadership with clear visibility into compliance risk, trends, and program effectiveness.
Training & Culture
• Design and deliver targeted compliance training for leadership, engineering, operations, supply chain, and support teams.
• Promote a strong compliance culture grounded in accountability, transparency, and practical problem solving.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders on navigating complex regulatory requirements.

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.

Preferred

• 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.

Commitment to Health & Safety

• Demonstrate leadership in Health, Safety and Environment compliance.
• Hold team members accountable for health, safety and environmental compliance as part of the annual performance review process.
• Ensure that the requirements of the health, safety and environment management system are implemented and maintained.
• Carry out hazard assessments, inspections, and audits as required by legislative framework and/or corporate requirements.
• Implement appropriate corrective measures for unsafe conditions and unsafe acts.
• Ensure that appropriate equipment, materials and protective devices are provided and maintained in safe condition.
• Attend HSE Due Diligence for Management training sessions.

Join our globally growing team at ATS Industrial Automation where we create complex automation solutions at the highest level that sustainably impact lives around the world. 

At ATS, a publicly traded global company with a proud 40-year history, we help drive the future with our factory-wide automation solutions. At ATS Industrial Automation, what we do matters - both to our customers and to their customers. With 600 skilled employees around the world, we design, build and service mission-critical automated assembly and test solutions for mobility, nuclear and specialty automation. Our customers are leaders in their industries and rely on us to deliver what we promise - on time and on budget. Combined with our broad product portfolio, financial strength and global presence, we provide our customers with the best automation solutions wherever and whenever they need them. 

Join our ATS Industrial Automation Team because:

• We VALUE our People : The foundation of a great company is having the best team which is why we continuously work to develop, engage, empower, and energize our people.
• We’ve got GREAT Work Perks : We provide a variety of perks to our employees. Make sure you ask more about our flexible work schedules, employee events, free coffee beverages, employee referral program and safety shoe programs. 
• We offer COMPETITIVE Total Rewards: 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 and optional Employee Share Purchase Program. 
• We support internal GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT : ATS Automation offers endless opportunities for professional growth and development, including tuition reimbursement programs and our commitment to promoting from within.