Fisheries Technical Officer - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - LRQA group

LRQA group

Verified Company

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job ID:38983

Location:
Edinburgh : 6 Redheughs Rigg

Position Category:
Technical

Position Type:
Employee Regular

Who are LRQA?
LRQA stands for dedication to clients, market firsts, and deep expertise in risk management.

We've grown to become a leading global assurance provider, bringing together outstanding expertise in certification, customised assurance, cybersecurity, inspection and training.

While we're proud of our heritage, it's who we are today that really matters, because that's what shapes who we and our clients can become tomorrow.

By staying true to our shared values and combining decades of collective experience, we support our clients in building a safer and more sustainable future.

LRQA currently operates across 50 countries, has more than 2,500 colleagues, generates £315m in revenue, and supports more than 60,000 clients across a diverse range of sectors and markets.

Role Purpose
As members of LRQA's Fisheries Team, Fisheries Technical Officers report to the Fisheries Manager.

The role's core responsibilities relate primarily to managing a portfolio of fisheries or schemes, including project managing and coordinating any related assessments, and technically reviewing assessment reports whilst being the primary point of contact for fisheries clients and/or scheme owners within their portfolio.

It is expected that Fisheries Technical Officers will be assigned primary responsibility for fisheries commensurate with their level of experience whereby newer or less experienced team members will be assigned lower risk or less complicated fisheries while more complicated items are assigned to more experienced team members.

Fisheries Technical Officers are also expected to support LRQA's Quality Team and Fishery Manager in ensuring that documentation, control manuals and operating procedures related to fisheries schemes are fit for purpose and comply with accreditation body and scheme owner requirements where these responsibilities extend to contributing to internal and external audit and review processes as required.

The Fisheries Technical Officer role is intended to be useful in gaining experience in area of fisheries assessment and certification and provide a pathway to Senior Fisheries Technical Officer.

It is further intended that Senior Fisheries Technical Officers continue to grow in their role and, once they meet relevant competence requirements, become qualified Fishery Assessors (akin to Auditor) and latterly Lead Assessors (akin to Lead Auditor).

Once qualified, Senior Fisheries Technical Officers are expected to spend an agreed portion of their time as Assessors and/or Lead Assessors as appropriate where the agreed portion will depend on the needs and balance of the Fishery Team and LRQA's fishery portfolio at a given time.

In this way, the Fisheries Technical Officer role is intended to provide a pathway to Fishery Assessor and Lead Assessor.

Key Responsibilities

Gain and maintain an accurate understanding of relevant certification scheme standards and requirements.
Maintain a good level of knowledge of international fisheries and impact on fisheries schemes.
Support the running of fisheries schemes including participating in meetings and providing communications with clients, assessors/auditors and stakeholders.
Manage a portfolio of fisheries including coordinating (project managing) relevant assessments.
Provide technical input and reviews of fisheries reports.
Assist the Fisheries Manager in ensuring that contractors/team members contracted to carry out fishery assessment duties are competent to carry out the functions they are contracted to perform.
Contribute to the maintenance of standard operating procedures, guidance documents and systems as required to ensure compliance with all relevant requirements.
Input to all stages of the certification process from tender through to certification of fisheries applicants as well as all stages of the surveillance and reassessment process for relevant projects.
Participate in internal and external audits as required, including reviewing and responding to audit findings to ensure that they are addressed in a timely manner.
Working with relevant administrators to maintain and keep up to date company systems and assist in ensuring the accuracy and completeness of client data in relevant internal and external databases.
Actively contribute to team meetings and maintain good relationships with LRQA staff and standard holders.
Pursue Continuing Professional Development and maintain a high degree of discipline knowledge and awareness.
Knowledge of seafood, marine or fisheries industries and international fisheries issues.
A very good level of spoken and written English.
Experience in accredited certification schemes and auditing.
Project management experience or experience managing a project.
Analytical approach to work and attention to detail.
Excellent communication and