Senior Principal Engineer - Safety Compliance - Remote, US

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What we offer

Competitive salary and bonus

Paid vacation/holidays/sick time

Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care – available day one

Encouraging and collaborative team environment

Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy

What you will do

The Global Product Safety Compliance Senior Principal Engineer

Johnson Controls has an exciting Global Product Safety Compliance Senior Principal Engineer opportunity within the Global Products organization.

We’re looking for a Senior Principle Engineer to join the Global Quality team within JCI’s Global Products and lead the Safety and Regulatory Compliance projects, regulatory evaluations and Strategic Initiatives.

You will partner closely with Johnson Controls Quality and Legal Departments to assure compliance programs are appropriately implemented, monitored, and maintained. This position will also collaborate with customers, supply chain, external alliance partners, engineering, and various functional business unit stakeholders.

The position is fully remote with travel.

What You Will Do

The Global Product Safety Compliance (PSC) Senior Principal Engineer under the guidance of the Global Product Safety Compliance Director is accountable for safety regulatory compliance process improvements, and execution of key compliance programs to drive proactive and sustained compliance in lifecycle management of the product line, from new product introduction (NPI) through end of life (EOL), to enable delivery of business needs. 

The Global PSC Senior Principle Engineer must have a good understanding and experience in regional and global safety standards to lead the Product Safety team. The Product Safety team works with the new product development teams on core safety DFMEA/PFMEA/Control Plan templates for the Global Products and will ensure lessons learned (safety related field campaigns, warranty, etc.) are rolled back into safety templates, and NPI. 

The Global PSC Senior Principle Engineer will lead and advise on potential product safety issues and lead efforts to determine root cause analysis, risk assessment, resolution and field communications driving these issues to completion and implementing preventative actions. 

You will ensure global safety standards and city, state, country or province codes are met. He or she must also have a good understanding of technical interpretation of safety standards and support regional branch and field code compliance questions from customers or Authorities having Jurisdiction. 

How You Will Do It

•    Define and drive product segment strategies to implement a prioritized roadmap for NPI.
•    Manage and be the senior technical reviewer for complex product safety and regulatory code projects. 
•    Serve as an expert regulatory compliance advisor and Subject Matter Expert on key strategic and critical compliance issues.
•    Provide compliance expertise and global compliance perspective in the development of risk mitigation strategies.
•    Understand product and process risk profiles, proactively identify and prioritize risks. Partner with stakeholders to escalate critical risks to the appropriate level of management.
•    Partners with Supplier Quality leadership to provide compliance oversight and execute compliance programs to ensure compliance with all voluntary, regulatory and statutory standards.
•    Represent Regulatory Compliance in applicable forums and councils.
•    Execute follow ups to audits, significant regulatory inspections, and regulatory actions. Partner with stakeholders to drive effective, sustainable action against associated action plans.
•    Manage the relationship and be an active participant in different norms and standards committees (i.e: UL, EN, ASTM, etc).
•    Maintain knowledge and application of the product