What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Compliance Engineer position at Hitachi?
Location :
Michigan City, Indiana, United States
Job ID : R0052436
Date Posted : 2024-05-17
Company Name :
HITACHI GLOBAL AIR POWER US, LLC
Profession (Job Category) :
Engineering & Science
Job Schedule : Full time
Remote : Job Description :
Summary of the position :
The Senior Product Compliance Engineer is responsible and accountable for ensuring that products are designed and manufactured in full compliance with all applicable directives, regulations, and legislative requirements, both domestic and international.
This position reports to the Director, Global Product Lifecyle Management, and will involve extensive cross-functional interaction, particularly with engineering, manufacturing, quality, sales, and marketing and at all stages of product development from research and pre-development through to post manufacturing support. The role involves being a key and influential member of the business with the prime focus of ensuring that current and future products are designed and manufactured in full compliance with applicable standards, directives, regulations, and legislative requirements.
Duties and responsibilities :
- Determine regulatory and compliance requirements of new products being developed and engineered orders based on where Hitachi Global Air Power intends to sell the products.
- Verify, review, and maintain all existing and emerging company and Government regulatory policies, standard work and procedures that have been documented, implemented, and communicated.
- Provide training and disseminate written policies and standard work on new and current product development projects to ensure compliance.
- Interpret regulatory rules or rule changes and ensure that they are communicated through corporate policies and standard work.
- Participate on Standards and Regulatory Committees.
- Assist with and provide technical input into new product and component development for the purposes of ensuring compliance.
- Conduct product safety reviews.
- Work with engineering, manufacturing, and quality engineers to conduct periodic internal audits to ensure compliance with regulations and standard work.
- Conduct or direct the internal investigation of product compliance issues; identify compliance issues that require follow-up or further investigation.
- Serve as a point of contact for communication with management to seek clarification on issues or report irregularities.
- Provide sales support during customer meetings and visits when required.
- Provide technical writing and review of data or reports that will be incorporated into regulatory submissions to assure rigor, accuracy, and clarity.
- Review product promotional materials, labeling, specification sheets or test methods for compliance with applicable regulations and policies.
- File appropriate compliance reports with regulatory agencies.
- Report violations of compliance or regulatory standards to duly authorized enforcement agencies as appropriate or required.
- Prepare and present the Company's ability to ensure all controls are in place for all product lines.
- Oversee all product certification audits and shall work with other departments to ensure audit success.
- Responsible for working with third-party agencies and government agencies to ensure that products are being certified on time and on budget
Qualifications : Education :
Professional experience :
Key behaviors :
The successful candidate is responsible for complying with Hitachi Global Air Power US Code of Ethics and related policies. In performing the job, the incumbent shall take all steps necessary to comply with our safety rules and requirements and must actively support the organization's efforts to meet and exceed its goals of creating and maintaining a safe workplace.
This description is to serve as a guide. It is intended to be flexible and will continue to evolve over time with business needs and demands and may be updated periodically and at the Company's discretion.
Hitachi Global Air Power US is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate based on race, religion, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, physical or mental disability, or other protected categories under applicable law, whether in recruitment, employment, promotion, transfer, compensation, or other conditions of employment.
