Product Safety Compliance Principal Engineer – EMEA Region

Are you dedicated to product safety and interested in being part of a global company that prioritizes sustainability and diversity? If so, we are looking for a person with experience and knowledge in risk assessment, directives, regulations, and associated standards, including Notify Bodies approvals for products and production.

Look at this unique opportunity, where you can join our Product Safety Compliance team at Johnson Controls.

What You Will Do

• Overall responsibility for ensuring that our products sold in the EMEA area comply with all applicable regulations under the mentorship of the Product Safety Compliance Director in the US.
  
• Support product lifecycle management in the area of safety compliance during the new product development process
• Execution of key compliance programs and initiatives to drive proactive and sustained compliance to meet business needs.
  
• Lead team projects in the area of core safety and risk analysis to ensure design-in safety and regulatory compliance.
  
• Represent JCI and influence standards on key IEC technical committees.
  

How You Will Do It

• Serve as an experienced regulatory compliance advisor and authority on key strategic and critical compliance issues.
  
• Lead problem-solving activities on critical product safety compliance investigations.
  
• Provide compliance expertise in the development of risk mitigation strategies in the product development cycle.
  
• Understand product and process risk profiles, proactively identifying and prioritizing risks.
  Partner with others to escalate critical risks to the appropriate level of management.
  
• Partner with stakeholders to provide compliance oversight and implement compliance programs to ensure adherence to all voluntary, regulatory, and statutory standards.
  
• Partner with stakeholders to identify critical safety compliance areas for improvements in the product to assure continuous improvement.
  

What We Look For

• A university degree in a technical field.
  
• Demonstrated experience in driving product safety and regulatory compliance.
  
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in the related fields of product safety and/or risk analysis compliance.
  
• Excellent project management skills.
  
• Demonstrated leader.
  
• Ability to work independently as well as with cross-functional teams.
  
• Ability to balance technical understanding of products and processes with a compliance perspective.
  
• Demonstrate strategic agility when facing difficult situations without a clear near-term path.
  
• Travel may be required up to 10% - 15% for project support, factory, customer site, and field visits.
  
• Working knowledge of English - written and verbal.
  

What we offer

• Attractive salary package, optional benefits program, and health insurance
• 10% paid pension
• Employment in a growth company with a history that started more than 130 years ago
• Be part of the green energy-efficient cooling and heat pump industry
• In house production
• Good canteen and exercise facilities
• Well-established employee associations
• Flexible working hours
• Good opportunities for education and different career paths (incl.
  5000 e-learning programs)
• Good maternity/paternity benefits and the child's first sick day (as well as a global network for parents with young children)
• High security requirements (We work with high performance teams)

As a performance-oriented company, we strive to always recruit the best person for the job - regardless of gender, age, nationality, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs.
We are proud of our diversity and inclusion agenda and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high-performing teams.

If you have been reading so far, we're glad to see you are interested.
If you could see yourself in this role, we look forward to hearing from you!

The position is on-site at our office in Aarhus, Denmark.

We are interviewing on an ongoing basis and therefore encourage you to send us your CV as soon as possible.
If you wish to include a cover letter, please attach it to your CV as a single PDF.
For further information about the role, please contact Lynn Garcia (Global Director, Product Safety Compliance) at

Johnson Controls is a global organization - spanning 2.000 locations and with more than 130.000 employees worldwide who are dedicated to creating a world that is safe, comfortable, and sustainable through innovative, intelligent and integrated building solutions, technologies and infrastructure.

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