Certification Specialist

Title: Certification Specialist
Location: Mundelein, IL
Duration: Permanent Hire
Reports to: Engineering Director

Job Description:
Certification Specialist Food safety & Electrical safety of the products. This person serves as a central touch point for product compliance and certification. Responsible for new product development and existing product certifications.

Essential duties and responsibilities: Efficiently manages certification projects concurrently and ensures completion within time frames and cost deadlines. Evaluates products against requirements of national / international standards and precedent decisions. Makes technical decisions. Work closely with Engineering team on new product Agency requirement. Implementation and controlling of Agency control system. Monitor and analyze Agency performance and project status. Able to consistently maintain very high productivity while managing multiple projects with on-time and on-budget. Acts as a Notified Body representative or Reviewer to support Certification Decision or issuance of Approvals. Keeps the Product Manager / Lead or Assistant Operations Manager informed of project status as required, pointing out major problems and noncompliance. Collaborate with multi-disciplinary engineering teams, and work with vendors and contractors to achieve the certification of products. Work with external agency certification bogies to get the certification of products. Audit the production line units, and make sure the products meet the internal Agency standards or any customer specific standards. Bachelor's degree or equivalent amount of Agency Engineering or Agency Management experience required.
Education Qualifications Associates (Required) Bachelor (Preferred)
Knowledge & Skills That Enable Success: + years of work experience in similar industry Knowledge of UL, NSF & IEC standards; variety of test procedures Leadership and management skills Computer proficiency, MS-office tools Strong problem-solving ability; detail-oriented Strong organizational, time, and project management skills Ability to work unsupervised High level of communication skills (verbal and written)

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