Product Compliance Engineer III

Company: Laird Connectivity
Location: Cedarburg
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

With general directions, the Product Compliance Engineer III is responsible for the statutory and regulatory aspects of Laird Connectivity's wireless product portfolio. This includes ensuring compliant products during new product development, managing and maintaining product compliance after launch, ensuring accurate, up-to-date product documentation, and providing internal and external guidance and support on compliance related inquires related to the product line.This is a remote position anywhere in the US.
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Facilitates/coordinates and manages the compliance aspects of the wireless product portfolio, acting as project interface to test labs, regulatory bodies, and countries.
• Plays an active role in the development team to ensure the compliance effort remains on schedule and within budget.
• Obtains and maintains records of testing, safety accreditation, CB Scheme, country licenses, etc.
• Manages the ongoing regulatory compliance of Laird products through-out their life cycle by involvement with sustaining engineering projects.
• Ensures compliant products, product documentation and processes for new products and existing product portfolio.
• Specifies, reviews, and approves regulatory compliance requirements, product information and documentation.
• Provides support for compliance-related customer inquiries.
• Ensures handling of region-specific compliance matters, registrations, and approvals.
• Drafts and provides declaration/confirmation of country-specific documents and achieve market approval.
• Monitors applicable regulation and standard changes (FCC, IEC, ETSI, CISPR, IEEE, ANSI, UL, CSA, etc.), identifies actions and generates impact assessments and business cases.
• Coordinates and manages compliance related initiatives, such as product regulatory renewals, between internal and external resources.
• Organizes and maintains product compliance documentation such as the Technical Construction File, including test reports, Certificates of Compliance, User Manuals, Test Setup Instructions, etc.
• Conducts internal audits and support external audits for compliance related matters. REQUIREMENTS
  • Working knowledge of regulatory requirements and industry standards.
  • Hands-on experience on EMC/EMI testing.
  • Good understanding of global consumer electronics EMC/EMI standards such as, FCC, CE, CISPR, RED, etc.
  • Able to write technical documents clearly and concisely.
  • May require knowledge of local certification processes and ability to interact with local certification authorities.
  • Exposure and working knowledge of wireless technologies such as WIFI, Zigbee and Bluetooth along with an understanding of networking systems is highly desirable.
  • Understanding of environmental / sustainability requirements such as Prop 65, RoHS, Reach, Energy efficiency etc. is desirable. EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE
    • Bachelors degree in engineering or technical field or equivalent experience.
    • Five to eight years of related experience; preferably with electromechanical components.

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