Technical Compliance Engineer

Position Purpose:

The Technical Compliance Engineer is responsible for ensuring the compliance of regulatory and legal to sell requirements for private branded or imported products and is a business partner to the engineering team managing and supporting private brands compliance projects. They will keep track of new and updated regulations that may affect Private Brand product categories and monitor projects to ensure products sold meet these regulations. They will work with 3rd party test laboratories to write, review and update protocols to ensure safety and regulatory requirements are met through the onboarding process. The Engineer will work to align cross functional teams for new and existing processes across business units.

Key Responsibilities:

30% Engineering project management including product requirement development, and test protocol development
20% Conduct financial and value based calculations, summarize the findings for the business in presentation quality format and communicate findings to key stakeholders
40% Complete resolution of product performance concerns
10% Provide general product Engineering guidance and knowledge or evaluations as required to deliver short term business goals

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

This position reports to Manager
This position has no Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

Most all of the time is spent sitting in the same position or standing/walking or there is some requirement to lift or handle material or equipment of moderate weight (8-20 pounds).

Working Conditions:

Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or equivalent in a field of study related to the job
Masters of Business Administration
Product costing experience
Extensive understanding of Bills of Materials
Knowledge of Merchandising Financial terms
Knowledge of INCO shipping terms
Experience working in a manufacturing and/or product development environment including design for reduced Manufacturing and Assembly costs
Experience working with OEM suppliers through the product development cycle
Experience working with vertically integrated manufacturers
Business acumen and understanding of Merchandising
Ability to use costing software such as Boothroyd Dewhurst DFM/DFMA

Minimum Education:

The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

2

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

None

Certifications:

None

Competencies:

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work in cross-functional team environment

Business acumen and understanding of Merchandising

Proficient with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

Familiarity with Software programs such as Quorum, Confluence and smartsheet.

Familiarity with project management and data analytic techniques (Google BigQuery, Tableau,etc)

Demonstrated manufacturing knowledge in areas such as plastics, metals, glass, wood, textiles and Printed Circuit boards