Legislation Engineer in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire

Location: Cottingham, East Yorkshire
Salary: £48,516 - £56,238
Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time

Prestige Recruitment Specialists are working in partnership with a leading UK leisure vehicle manufacturer to recruit an experienced Legislation Engineer to join its Engineering team based in Cottingham.

This is a key technical position, reporting directly to the Engineering Director, with responsibility for maintaining legislative and regulatory compliance across three product areas: touring caravans, motorhomes and holiday homes.

You will play an important role in translating UK and European legislation into practical engineering requirements, ensuring products meet the necessary safety and regulatory standards and securing the approvals required for products to be manufactured and sold.

With the continued growth in popularity of the UK staycation market, this is an exciting opportunity to join an established manufacturer in a fast-paced, modern and dynamic engineering environment.

As Legislation Engineer, you will take ownership of product compliance, vehicle type approvals and regulatory requirements across the business.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Preparing and managing UK and EU whole vehicle type approvals for touring caravans and motorhomes.

• Managing approval documentation, technical information, product variants, extensions and the wider approval portfolio.

• Acting as the main point of contact with approval authorities, including VCA, SNCH and appointed technical services.

• Ensuring holiday homes and lodges comply with relevant BS 3632 and EN 1647 standards, including associated gas, electrical and fire safety requirements.

• Reviewing and approving compliance evidence at New Product Introduction (NPI) stage gates, ensuring all regulatory requirements are satisfied before products progress.

• Authorising the release of Certificates of Conformity and statutory identification plates.

• Maintaining accurate, version-controlled registers of applicable legislation, standards, clauses and supporting test evidence.

• Supporting the planning, budgeting and management of annual product testing programmes with external laboratories and technical services.

• Monitoring changes in UK, European and international legislation and assessing their impact on product design, manufacturing and commercial operations.

• Supporting energy efficiency assessments for holiday home products, maintaining competence as a BS 3632 NCC approved inspector and energy assessor.

• Representing the business at relevant industry working groups and supporting responses to government and regulatory consultations.

• Working with suppliers to verify component approvals and declarations of conformity, including UNECE regulations, EMC, UKCA, CE marking, RoHS and REACH.

• Maintaining conformity of production arrangements and supporting internal and external audits.

• Supporting technical investigations into product compliance issues, including safety defects and potential product recalls.

• Providing technical guidance and support to internal departments, including Customer Experience.

We are looking for someone with a strong technical engineering background and demonstrable experience working within a regulated product environment.

You will ideally have:

• A degree in Engineering or Applied Science, or equivalent experience within a regulated manufacturing environment.

• Working knowledge of UK and EU whole vehicle type approval requirements.

• Knowledge of UNECE regulations, Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) and national small series approval routes.

• Practical experience preparing technical approval documentation and dealing directly with approval authorities or technical services.

• The ability to interpret legislation and technical standards and translate them into clear engineering and design requirements.

• Experience reviewing test plans, technical reports and compliance evidence.

• Excellent technical writing and documentation skills.

• Strong attention to detail and a disciplined approach to maintaining technical records.

• The confidence to challenge compliance evidence and make sound technical decisions.

• A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel to suppliers, test facilities and industry meetings.

Experience or knowledge in any of the following areas would be advantageous:

• Leisure vehicles, automotive, trailers, vehicle body building or other low-volume, high-variant manufacturing environments.

• BS and EN standards relating to caravans, motorhomes and holiday homes.

• Habitation gas systems, 12V and 230V electrical systems and fire performance requirements.

• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems such as PTC Windchill.

• ERP systems such as Microsoft Dynamics 365.

• Industry technical committees and standards organisations, including NCC, BSI or CEN.

• Internal auditing and conformity of production processes.

This is a particularly important role within the Engineering function, with responsibility for ensuring regulatory compliance across a diverse product portfolio.

You will have the opportunity to influence new product development, work with external regulatory bodies and technical specialists, and help shape how future legislative changes are implemented across the business.

The role offers the chance to develop your expertise within a specialist manufacturing environment where technical compliance is fundamental to product design, safety and successful market launch.

If you have experience in engineering legislation, product compliance, vehicle type approval or regulatory affairs and are looking for your next challenge, we would like to hear from you.

Apply today with your CV and a member of the Prestige Recruitment Specialists team will be in touch to discuss the opportunity further.

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