Compliance Engineer

Shirley Parsons are working with a a global market leader in reversing safety and all-round visibility for commercial vehicles. They are looking to hire a Compliance Engineer to join their team, base for this position will in the new state of the art facility in Dartford and may require occasional travel to support manufacturing partners.

Compliance Engineer Responsibilities:

• Support assembly plant clearances and management of any changes to the value stream impacting type approval and conformity of production
• Support product and project teams with new type approvals, type approval extensions, regulation revisions and cessation of production.
• Support the Quality Assurance function in undertaking all Conformity of Production (CoP) requirements throughout the supply chain.
• Support the organisation in raising competencies and awareness of the type approval, conformity of production and homologation processes both internally and externally.
• Taking ownership and responsibility of the organisation’s documented type approval, conformity of production and product conformance processes and procedures.
• Supporting the procurement department to ensure that the value stream is fully compliant with respect to assembly plant clearances and post product release continuing conformity of production. Supporting product managers and their respective new product and project management teams to ensure that new type approvals, extension to scope and cessation of production records are maintained.
• To liaise with and be the representative for the organisation in communications to test services and the respective authorities.

Compliance Engineer Skills:

• At least three years’ relevant industry experience within customer and supplier facing role.
• Experienced in working within the automotive supply chain (Prime, Tier 1 or OEM) or an industry aligned/allied with the industry
• Conformity of Production (CoP),Type Approval, Homologation, CE, UKCA, FCC, IC, RoHS, REACH, WEEE, International Material Data System (IMDS),Supplier Auditing & IATF 16949:2016