Job Title: Compliance Officer
Location: Chester
Salary: £28,000
Description:
Our client based in Chester are on the look out for a Compliance Officer to join their team.
Salary: £25,000 - £28,000 pa depending on experience.
Holiday: 25 days (increases with service up to 30 days)
Benefits: Death in Service at x3 Salary, Auto-enrolment Pension (4% Employee, 8% Employer), Friends and Family discount on products.
The Compliance Officer will be supporting the Compliance Manager, ensuring the business meets all its compliance obligations across all areas of its operation. For example, Timber has its own compliance regulations (since 2013) requiring all wood products to be due diligence assessed to ensure all risk of illegally importing wood are minimised. Additionally, sustainable sourcing, transportation, packaging, chemical treatment, labour (slavery etc) and the mattress/headboard/fabric sides of the business has fire compliance also have to be covered. Health & Safety is covered by another area of the business.
In addition, all manufacturing facilities, both owned and partnered, must undergo regular ethical and technical audits to ensure that national and international standards are adhered to in a range of operating areas.
The company's customers have strict audit compliance criteria across their supplier chains and this role works closely with our customer to ensure the business complies with these standards and information is recorded on their bespoke system in a timely and accurate manner. This role will be primarily keeping these systems to date and ensure that the correct information is collated and input to the compliance systems. Additionally, ensuring new products are set up within the infrastructure and all deadlines are met. This will involve frequent contact with the factory base in the UK and its overseas supply base.
In addition, this role will ensure that all aspects of product compliance standards are kept up to date regarding flammability and performance testing.
The successful candidate will need to have a good attention to detail, and they need someone who can assimilate data quickly and who has solid MS Excel skills. Full training will be provided.
Ideally the candidate would be a graduate with an environmental/forest stewardship/geography degree but again this is not essential for the right candidate.
Unfortunately, due to time restrictions we cannot respond to every applicant, in the event that we haven't contacted you within 48 hours please take it you have not been successful for this particular role, but your details will be kept on file and considered for all future vacancies.
We are an equal opportunities agency and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
We are acting on behalf of the client as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.