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- Compliance Engineer - to oversee legislative compliance and product safety
- Electronics / Electrical Engineering Background
- Legal and compliance Audit management
- Implementation and management of an effective legal compliance program – focusing on international safety standards relating to machinery equipment.
- Act as the technical authority for legislative compliance and product safety, resolving employee concerns and educating the team on the latest regulations and associated design philosophies.
- Balance demand with cost, to implement and offer best value proposition to a compliance requirement.
- Carry out detailed testing on all new products and existing products where required and generate reports for use in manuals and other documentation.
- Carry out inspections and analysis of products in accordance with the appropriate global legal safety requirements to enable product certification.
- Ensure all parts used within products are compliant with the relevant directives and standards such as RoHS, REACH, TSCA etc.
- Maintain a working knowledge of current worldwide compliance regulations
- Assume responsibility for UL/METlabs inspections and approvals, and carry out corrective actions where required
- Produce product level risk assessments to ISO 12100
- Regularly audit company procedures, practices, and documents to identify possible weaknesses or risk.
- Support continual improvement of compliance delivery with regard to time, cost and quality
- Conduct training as required, to achieve compliance with the relevant directives and standards.
- A formal qualification in Electrical / Electronic Engineering would be ideal for this role, but not essential if relevant and transferable experience can be demonstrated.
- A good understanding of Health & Safety standards, with particular focus on electronics and electrical installations
- Ability to understand schematic diagrams and electronic component function
- Understanding of machinery directives
- Ability to take ownership of the Compliance Engineer’s position, with confidence.
- Document writing and reporting experience - essential
- PAT and Flash testing experience - essential
- General electrics (including 3 phase systems) – essential
- IEC Standards (Ideally electrical safety) would be ideal.
- Certificates of conformance would be ideal but not essential
- Meticulous, methodical approach to work is essential
- Technically minded, analytical and logical, with strong communication skills
