At Volution Ventilation UK, our purpose is to provide healthy indoor air, sustainably.
Job profile
As the Product Compliance & Validation Manager, you will work within the Volution Ventilation Group Technical Team, to identify, manage and complete test programs for product reliability, safety and other regulatory requirements for all new product developments and in-market product changes.
You will be responsible for resource planning and line management of 4 test engineers and 1 Approvals Manager, supporting continuous improvement, training and mentoring.
You'll prepare and continuously support the product Technical Files to ensure compliance and traceability to enable the Technical Director to sign off the Declaration of Conformity documents.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design specification and ongoing project process to identify risks, test requirements and lab resource allocation.
- Working with the design team to develop methodical test plans for all aspects of product design – from mechanical through to electronics, firmware and mobile apps. Ensuring products are released on time, on budget and fulfil our customer expectations.
- Identify current and future regulatory requirements for all VVG markets, working with local teams to ensure product compliance, including performance, safety and energy related products directive.
- Estimate and track resource and external test costs for budgetary purposes.
- Generate monthly product reliability reports and contribute to our continuous improvement objectives.
- Identifying areas of improvement through methodical FMEA or similar process.
- Work towards continuously improving our product development process to improve efficiency and prevent delays.
To be successful in this role you will need
- Minimum 5 years experience working within either of the following:
- Product design and manufacturing company for domestic and/or commercial appliances.
- Product compliance environment.
- Familiar working with CE, LVD and EMC directives including safety standards.
- Application of relevant tools to perform risk analysis and identify test requirements, fault analysis for preventative and corrective actions; for process, part or product improvement.
- Experience in writing and implementing test plans.
- Pragmatic and be adept at prioritizing: you understand the trade-off between velocity and perfection.
- Understand and manage risks appropriate to the business and associated product.
- Good MS Office knowledge, in particular Excel.
- Strong written, verbal, communication and interpersonal skills.
What we can offer you
- Salary dependent on experience
- Private Health
- Annual leave – 25 days and bank holidays
- Company Pension
- Life Assurance
- Health Assured - Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Referral Scheme
- Quarterly Employee Awards
- Ongoing training & development
You can learn more about us here; https://www.volutiongroupplc.com/
Equal opportunities
All current employees and potential employees are provided equal employment opportunities by Volution Group Plc
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