Lead – Regulatory Compliance

At a Glance

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Lead - Regulatory Compliance to join the Lighting Sector Focal Point Team in Chicago, IL. The Lead – Regulatory & Compliance is responsible for ensuring that all product designs and engineering changes meet both in-house and regulatory requirements. Specifically, he or she will oversee test lab personnel who run projects ensuring product life-safety compliance with UL and other certifying bodies, compliance testing for Energy Star, photometric validation, warranty testing. As Focal Point is a certified UL DAP lab, the successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring continued certification as well as explore adding additional in-house certified testing capabilities. This position reports to the Engineering Manager.

What Will You Do?

Specific Job Responsibilities:

• Increase gross revenue for the company, by ensuring faster speed to market through successful management of vertically integrated test labs. Ensure product compliance for life safety, risk of shock, risk of fire and mechanical hazard.
• Lead efforts to maintain test lab certification (per UL DAP). Serve as Point of contact for monthly UL inspections and quarterly ETL inspection.
• Lead and train Technicians in all aspects of performing and reporting product safety and performance testing. Ensure adherence to UL1598, UL924, and UL2108 standards. This includes normal temperature, abnormal temperature, sprinkler, load, torque, goniophotometer, integrating sphere, and other electrical and mechanical testing.
• Manage UL projects for products requiring UL listing or similar certification. UL Authorized Signatory, including sign-off on UL project datasheets.
• Report on duration and cost of projects. Identify and implement process improvements to reduce lead-time and overall project expense.
• Define and create modular safety certification procedures, to ensure optimal testing requirements across the widest range of cataloged products.
• Manage/create database for Technical Inquiries to UL.
• Maintain and supervise Focal Point product labeling process.
• Stay current with codes and regulations. Ensure Sales, Engineering and Customer Service have pertinent code interpretations proactively and as needed reactively to support field requests.

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Partner with project leaders to ensure strong collaboration exists between testing team and product development teams.
• Assigning goals and metrics for Regulatory Compliance direct reports.
• Approve test plans using scientific methods and recommend best practices from UL.
• Create training plans with effectiveness measures to raise acumen specific to each internal customer function within Focal Point.
• Develop the technical and leadership skills of team members.

Required Skills

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Electrical, Technology or equivalent Engineering preferred. Associate in applied sciences in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing, Technology or equivalent Engineering with relevant experience is considered.
• 10+ years of experience in either lighting, laboratory, safety, or test labs.
• At least two years of experience managing 3rd party safety certification projects.
• Demonstrated experience of training test technicians.
• Take ownership of projects and sets direction for successful on-time completion.
• Ability to establish and meet goals.
• Team player with a demonstrated history of building rapport throughout the organization.
• Effective communication and listening skills (written and oral).
• Effective time management and organizational skills; can set priorities and meet deadlines.

About Legrand

Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Our comprehensive offering of solutions for residential, commercial, and data center markets makes us a benchmark for customers worldwide. We harness technological and societal trends with lasting impacts on buildings with the purpose of improving life by transforming the spaces where people live, work, and meet with electrical and digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative, and sustainable. Legrand is a global, publicly traded company listed on the Euronext (Legrand SA EPA: LR). For more information, visit www.legrandgroup.com/en

About Legrand North and Central America

Legrand, North & Central America (LNCA) is a leader in the AV, Lighting & Controls, Electrical, and Data Center markets. LNCA offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as distinctive benefits like a high employer 401K match, paid time off (PTO) and holiday pay, short-term and long-term disability benefit plans, above-benchmark paid maternity and parental leave, bonus opportunities in accordance with the Company’s incentive plans, paid time off to volunteer, and an active/growing Employee Resource Group network. For more information, visit legrand.us 

About Legrand’s Lighting Sector

Legrand’s Lighting Sector consists of five lighting brands; Pinnacle, Finelite, Focal Point, and OCL which focus on architectural, decorative, and downlighting and Kenall which focuses on lighting for demanding environments.  We employ a talented group of employees that love lighting to design and manufacture high performance, energy efficient LED lighting solutions for applications in commercial, educational, healthcare, as well as challenging environments such as tunnels and correctional facilities.  With an eye toward sustainable design, our focus is on specification-oriented products and solutions that meet the functional needs of spaces while working in harmony with the designer’s vision for those spaces. We work with architects, engineers, and contractors to supply lighting built specifically for their client’s projects.   

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