Senior Compliance Engineer

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Summary of Position Purpose:

• Implementation and management of an effective legal compliance program – focusing on global safety standards and directives relating to machinery equipment.
• Act as the company expert, resolving employee concerns and educating the team on the latest regulations and associated design philosophies.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Act as the technical authority for all legislative compliance and product safety.
• Balance demand with cost to implement and offer the 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.
• Actively maintain and update approvals / certifications on units to latest relevant standards
• Carry out inspections and analysis of products in accordance with the appropriate global legal safety requirements to enable product certification.
• Maintain a product compliance database which supports the business’s needs.
• Participate in the design of new products in order to ensure compliance with the required certifications
• Technical file creation maintenance and ownership
• 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 and directives
• Act as P.O.C for all external compliance testing (e.g. EMC, IP etc.)
• Ensure that all technical manuals and product documents are correct and in accordance with the relevant directives and standards
• Act as P.O.C for UL/METlabs inspections and approvals, and carry out corrective actions where required
• Support product classification levels
• Produce product level risk assessments to ISO 12100
• Development and maintenance of relevant procedures
• 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.
• Carry out other associated duties as may arise, develop or be assigned in line with the broad remit of the post
• Regularly audit company procedures, practices, and documents to identify possible weaknesses or risk.

Person Specification:

Knowledge

Essential

• Health & Safety, especially in relation to electronics and electrical installations
• Ability to understand schematic diagrams and electronic component function
• Ability to research information and self-learn in fulfilment of above duties
• Understanding of machinery directives

Desirable

• IEC standards (ideally Electrical Safety)

Experience

Essential

• Professional document writing
• Reporting
• PAT and Flash (Hi-pot) testing
• General electrics including 3 phase systems

Desirable

• Certificates of conformance
• Electrical experience from within a manufacturing environment
• Quality or inspection experience

Aptitudes, Abilities and Behaviours

Essential

• Meticulous and accurate documentation skills
• Methodical
• Ability to take ownership and responsibility
• Passion to learn and develop with a growing company
• Work to a high professional standard
• Technical, analytical and able to pick up new technologies
• Ability to adapt to changes in testing project requirements
• Excellent communication skills

Desirable

• Formal Qualification in Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Other information

• Office based role

At Donaldson BOFA we believe in fostering an inclusive environment where the employees voice is valued and respected. We prioritise and invest in the wellbeing of our employees and offer benefits, such as an Employee Assistance Program to support you and your family in all aspects of both personal and professional life including mental, physical and financial wellbeing.

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