Product Compliance Engineer

Welcome to the Traegerhood:

Our business is BBQ, and business tastes good. Traeger invented the wood pellet grill over 30 years ago, and we've been revolutionizing outdoor cooking ever since. We're a team of disruptors, innovators, problem solvers, and food fanatics who are dedicated to bringing people together to create a more flavorful world. From our headquarters in Salt Lake City and beyond, we work tirelessly to provide a world-class experience to our customers, retailers, and especially our employees. If you're a team player who's dedicated to delivering top-quality results every day, then we want you to come cook with us!

The Product Compliance Engineer is responsible for supporting regulatory compliance for all Traeger products. The Product Compliance Engineer will support project teams and develop, implement and maintain material, environmental, regulatory, and safety compliance requirements, certifications and guidelines for all company products. In addition, this role is responsible for providing education to team members and the development of data systems and requirements to insure Traeger products remain in compliance within markets served, support records development, and product tracking.

What You'll Do:

• Project team member responsible for assuring new/modified product meets both material regulation and product certification requirements
• Responsible for researching, understanding and properly applying regulatory and industry objectives for product sustainability programs (e.g., environmental compliance, PFAS, RoHS, REACH, Prop 65, TSCA, other materials compliance, Declarations of Conformity, sustainable product initiatives, etc)
• Develop a self-sustaining system to provide material/product declarations of conformity and compliance certificates on demand
• Support project meetings, Design Reviews, FMEA's, and Hazard Reviews to define material and/or testing protocols for product certifications

Key Skills:

• Must have 5 or more years' experience in compliance, PFAS, RoHS, REACH, Prop 65, AB1200, TSCA, materials compliance, food contact, Product Declarations of Conformity and sustainable product initiatives.
• Experience with product life management systems
• Ability to write DOC's
• Ability to build requirements for design teams
• Experience working with retailer auditors
• Research, identify, interpret and apply relevant standards, regulations and requirements for new products for intended markets (domestic and international)
• Conduct material and product regulatory and compliance risk assessments and develop risk mitigation strategies/plans to ensure business continuity and support growth initiatives.
• Act as primary liaison between project team, certification organizations and testing agencies to achieve regulatory certification compliance. This includes but is not limited to organizations such as: UL, CSA, TUV, Intertek, IEC, VDE, ANSI, and US state driven regulations.
• Help develop compliance tools for domestic and international regulations such as ROHS, Reach, California Proposition 65, AB1200 and packaging/transportation requirements
• Maintain proficiency of worldwide material and product regulations through research, development of network, and ongoing education

What You Need To Win:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Chemical Engineering or equivalent preferred; 5+ additional years of experience in lieu of a degree
• A minimum of 5 years of combined experience in product safety, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance is a must
• Experience working with various international organizations such as: UL, CSA and IEC is a must
• Experience with compliance legislation and regulations in USA, CAN, EU, NZ/AUS and UAE
• Experience with PFAS is a must
• Experience with food contact regulations is a must
• Product development experience is preferred
• Requirement systems development and management experience is preferred
• Ability to work with part numbers and build BOMs for database tracking
• Able to complete responsibilities in a timely, professional and quality manner
• Solve problems analytically; search out relevant information and gauge its importance when making decisions
• Effective written and oral communication skills; able to express oneself clearly and in technical and non-technical terms
• Collaborative and effective team player and able to work with teams who are globally dispersed