Compliance Engineer

East Midlands Source: WhatJobs

£50,000–£70,000

As Compliance Engineer, you will be part of a global compliance team reporting to the Global Hardware Safety and Product Compliance Manager.

You will be a driver of regulatory activities and procedures for the Product Division, overseeing core certifications for all new and existing products, and acting as a link between R&D, external stakeholders and the wider global compliance team.

You will work closely with the local R&D organization as well as other regulatory compliance experts around the word and 3rd party laboratories for testing purposes, participating in and/or leading cross-functional projects for new product development and current product lifecycle maintenance.

Key Responsibilities

The Compliance Engineer ensures product compliance with regulatory requirements in key markets (Europe, USA/Canada). You’ll focus on regulatory domains concerned around safety, electromagnetic compatibility and radio spectrum.

Participate in Thermal Transfer Overprint and Print & Apply new product development projects, including hardware regulatory certifications for Europe, USA, and Canada.
Plan and estimate compliance activities, providing pre compliance guidelines and organising pre compliance tests in safety and EMC during product design and development.
Update products or certification to ensure ongoing compliance, including ongoing compliance and certification of the TTO and P&A product portfolio over the full product lifecycle, planning recertification work ahead of time and providing compliance input for any proposed product modifications.
Proactively stay up to date on the standards, directives, and regulations applicable to your products to ensure conformity of our product ranges.
Assist the regional customer services or trade/importation services to support our global customer-base.
Ensure/maintain the safety and conformity of products, by supporting inspection audits at factory or processes audits (ISO9001) in product compliance.
Build good relationships with third-party laboratories and maintain an efficient customer/supplier collaboration (responsiveness, cost, delivery quality), seeking reliable new partners as required.
Proactively propose improvements to certification scope, processes and partnerships to increase customer satisfaction and reduce time to market.

What You Need To Have

BSc in Electrical / Mechanical Engineering, or other relevant scientific discipline
Knowledge of certifications for Safety, EMC standards/directives, Radio domains, and mechanisms of certification.
Good knowledge of CE, NRTL, FCC, IC regulations, including Machinery Directive, Low voltage directive, EMC Directive, RED Directive.
Knowledge of EMC testing including EMC pre-compliance during product development, EMC testing at external labs, and EMC mitigation would be advantageous
Understanding of compliance assessment of industrial machines or industrial installations.
Ability to interpret/analyze mechanical and electrical drawings, schematics, diagrams
Ability to work in international cross functional teams
Rigorous attention to detail, with the capacity to adapt and curiosity to learn