Associate Principal Product Compliance Engineer

Job Description

Solutions Driven is hiring on behalf of our client, who operate in the Appliances, Electronic, and Electrical Manufacturing space, for a Head of Product Compliance.

We are looking for a recognised product compliance expert that will be the driving force behind ensuring our products are compliant. As an Associate Principal Product Compliance Engineer you will be responsible for leading the resolution of compliance issues as they arise and proactively improving product compliance processes.

You will communicate effectively with all business functions, ensuring non-technical functions correctly understand the impact of compliance and approvals issues and work autonomously with minimal support or guidance.

The Role:

You will be a part of the Compliance and Approval team working in the wider New Product Development Team. We work to make sure our products access the markets we sell in by demonstrating compliance with regulations and standards. We are active across the whole product development process, specifying design requirements, testing and verifying compliance.

We are responsible for ensuring that all products comply with all relevant regulations, standards and legislation in all the countries we sell. This covers, but is not limited to, the following areas:

Food Contact Materials,
Banned and Restricted Substances,
Gas appliance safety,
Electrical appliance safety,
Radio approvals.

Responsibilities
Ensure that the knowledge on technical requirements and standards within their own disciplines is obtained, evaluated and maintained
Ensure that the compliance requirements within their own projects and disciplines are verified as correct and accurate
Feed into the process of making available such information in a timely manner and agreed format
Support the goals of the Product Compliance Team in collaboration with the senior members of the team
Understand and manage the risks associated with product compliance or approvals
May have a direct and decisive influence in international standards making activities within own disciplines
Identify and/or evaluate areas for improvement in the Product Compliance activities
May have or be developing an understanding of quality systems and assurance

Please note it is required to go into the Edinburgh office 4-5 days a week.

We’re looking for...

Desirable
Experience working with EU SCIP
Experience of Food Contact Materials testing
Experience of maintaining supply chain compliance with respect to banned and restricted substances
Familiarity with International standards, conformity assessment, approvals certification processes and associated legislation.
Extensive understanding of different avenues of intelligence gathering and intelligence services providers and ability at merging them to provide a comprehensive compliance strategy
Experience with the following will be beneficial: EN 498-1, ANSI Z21.89 / CSA 1.18, EN/IEC 60335-1.

Essential
Excellent knowledge of regulatory and technical standards principles
Excellent knowledge and understanding of relevant technical disciplines
Proven ability to communicate unambiguous regulatory concepts to the broader business
Experience of specifying requirements and then assessing that they have been met
through testing, inspection and documentation
The ability to communicate complex technical information simply
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
Able and confident at influencing and motivating others
Ability to work at all levels and to share knowledge
Demonstration of company values: Passion, Rigour, Innovation, Ambition and Kindness.