Certification Engineer - Kempton Park at Schauenburg Systems

Job Purpose

• Drives the required certifications and approvals necessary for Schauenburg Systems to deliver products to their intended markets. Supports and coaches Engineering Project managers, System Engineers and Product Managers in the requirements and best methods to achieve international certifications and approvals. Contribute to the overall engineering activities related to the delegated tasks, draft and present for review relevant engineering documentation in accordance with delegated tasks.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in electronic / computer engineering
• 3-5 years’ experience in the electronic, engineering field
• Hardware and software R&D experience
• Experience in formal testing, certification and approval techniques (non-negotiable)
• Experience in working in a multi-disciplinary environment (advantages)
• Schauenburg Systems is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities. We strongly encourage EE candidates and individuals with disabilities to submit their applications.

Responsibilities

Certification Management

• Contribute and actively participate in all certification activities (meetings, discussions, activities, laboratory testing, specifications, report submission, documentation generation, etc)
• Actively participate in and contribute towards engineering reviews, including documentation reviews and project reviews.
• Ensure that all products are aligned to achieve local and international certification
• Ensure that all products are aligned to achieve local and international certification
• Provide recommendations for the certification and approval process.

Elicitation

• Identify certification and approval standards, stakeholders, testing laboratories and approval authorities.
• Ensure that we have the current certification and approval standards and are aware of pending changes to these standards.

Requirement, architecture and design validation

• Actively participate in reviews of requirements, architectures and designs
• Comply with established standards and best operating practice
• Identify related problems before resources are committed to addressing designs and architectures

Architecture and design validation

• Actively participate in reviews of requirements, architectures and designs
• Comply with established standards and best operating practice
• Identify related problems before resources are committed to addressing designs and architectures

Testing

• Perform appropriate engineering and environmental testing
• Manage the submission of products to testing and approval.
• Facilitate the testing and approval of products, systems and sub-systems.
• Ensure traceability is maintained
• Maintain test records

Configuration

• All documentation to be configured in accordance with internal configuration management policies and procedures
• Issue tracking to be conducted in accordance with established standards and procedures
• Preservation of the integrity and traceability of approval and certification throughout the system life cycle

Budget and project inputs

• Provide inputs required for certification and approval scoping (work breakdown, resourcing and coordination)
• Provide cost and duration inputs for certification and approval
• Identify assumptions and potential risks to be considered during testing and approval
• Manage the issues and risks involved with certification and approval
• Identify opportunities for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of certification and approval
• Support for internal clients

Provide cooperation and support for:

• Engineering Project management
• System engineers
• Design engineers
• External technology partners /sub-contractors
• Facilitate liaising with customers concerning the appropriate certification and approval methods.

Support for external clients

• Provide cooperation and support for:
• External technology partners /sub-contractors
• Facilitate liaising with customers concerning the appropriate certification and approval methods.

Required Competences

• Knowledge of the local land internal testing, certification and approval process and methods relating to:
• Gas instrumentation
• Collison avoidance systems
• Light current mining elections
• Vehicle control systems.
• Experienced with support ticketing systems and life cycle management.
• Well versed in communication techniques and technologies.
• Strong written and oral communications skills.

Bonus Skills

• Demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to other engineers effectively.
• Intrinsic Safety experience beneficial
• Familiar with certification procedures at SABS, MSHA, ATEx, ANZEx, IECEx, MOSH, CE, FCC, ICASA
• Experience in heavy engineering or mining environments

Competencies (Skills, Knowledge, Attributes) Required:

• Self-motivated and self-starter
• The ability to create and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues and customers
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Must have the ability and mind-set to think from a developer’s point of view.
• Efficiently manage time and prioritize tasks to meet project deadlines and maintain productivity in a fast-paced environment. Communicate concerns or challenges with any of the project timelines to your peers, line manager or project manager
• Communicate concerns or challenges with any of the project deliverables to your peers, line manager or project manager.
• Willingness to keep up to date with developments in new technology
• Willingness to travel.
• Must be flexible and able to handle multiple simultaneous tasks
• Embrace the fact that the quality of your work could have serious implications leading to loss of life, injury or commercial impact for our end users