Product Compliance Manager

Product Compliance Manager role based in Haslingden, Lancashire. Senior Management role working for an electronic manufacturing company

Client Details

Our client is a market leading manufacturing company based in Haslingden

Description

We are seeking a Product Compliance Manager to oversee and streamline the process of achieving and maintaining product compliance and certifications across a range of geographies, industries, and product types (covering both physical product and software / cloud services). Reporting to the Technical Director, this is a key position to ensure that our client can get products to market quickly and efficiently within a highly regulated environment.

As the Product Compliance Manager your role will encompass:

* Facilitate ongoing product audits of the sites, as well as routine product inspections, from various approvals bodies. Ensure expiring certificates are renewed ahead of time to avoid compliance gaps. Stay involved in industry groups and standards committees relevant to the business, in order to give advance notice of any changes to compliance requirements, and to represent our interests in those groups.

* Create project plans for obtaining certifications on new products and services, ensuring the test, audit, and certification requirements are communicated to all stakeholders, along with expected timelines and costs, and any prerequisites for compliance.

* Work with the wider R&D / Engineering team to create test samples suitable for testing by approvals bodies. Educate the R&D / Engineering team on updates to standards and new test requirements. Support the Quality and H&S teams with their ongoing efforts to improve quality and safety within the business. Work with the Quality / Test teams to ensure the right products are tested in the right way during internal product auditing.

* Continuously strive for ways to improve the operation of the Compliance department, be that through increased use of technology (where appropriate), better ways to communicate, alternative suppliers or approvals bodies, or any other areas that can be improved, and work with the Quality and Production teams to improve operational processes such as labelling etc

Profile

YOU WILL BE A SUCCESSFUL PRODUCT COMPLIANCE OR DEVELOPEMNT MANAGER WITHIN THE ELECTONICS SECTOR WITH THE FOLLOWING EXPERTISE.

* Technical Expertise: A degree OR EQUIVALENT EXPERIENCE in a relevant engineering field, as well as detailed knowledge of relevant regulations (e.g. CE and UKCA marking, etc.) and testing (e.g. EMC and RF testing, environmental testing, safety testing, etc.), an understanding of the process of certification (e.g. test, paperwork, audits, etc.), and a thorough understanding of the obligations of the manufacturer (and other economic operators in the supply chain) in all scenarios.

* Communication: The ability to translate very technical regulations and standards into concise and pertinent points that can be disseminated to a wide team, as well as being able to professionally communicate with external stakeholders (both suppliers and customers).

* Leadership: The capability to lead teams of people and to delegate responsibilities in a reasoned manner to ensure projects are completed efficiently and promptly, while balancing workloads and matching tasks to skills.

* Resilience and Decisiveness: As an important gatekeeper in new product introductions or product change processes, the ability to work well under pressure and to make challenging business decisions based on robust evidence is essential. The following additional skills would be beneficial:

* Industry Experience: A proven track experience in the fire and/or security sector, or in a similarly regulated industry where similarities can be demonstrated, and skills and knowledge would be easily transferable. Experience with industry-specific certifications such as INCERT or VdS would be beneficial.

* Digital Skills: Confidence in using the full Microsoft Office package, good knowledge of VBA and SQL scripting, experience using PowerBI, and experience in using DesignDataManager would all be useful.

Job Offer

£60,000 plus benefits