Product Certification Specialist
About The Position
The Product Certification Specialist owns the full lifecycle of product certification and compliance for Lab37’s robotic food-production systems. This role develops and maintains the company’s compliance strategy across sanitation, electrical safety, and operator safety, translating national standards, local health-code requirements, and business needs into practical product requirements and internal processes. The Product Certification Specialist works closely with Engineering, Product, Manufacturing, Operations, certification bodies, and local regulators to ensure products are designed, documented, tested, manufactured, and deployed in accordance with applicable requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, food science, regulatory affairs, quality, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 7+ years of professional experience in product certification, regulatory compliance, quality, verification and validation, or product safety for electromechanical equipment.
- Experience working with NSF, an NRTL, or another third-party certification organization, including managing testing, documentation, findings, and certification activities.
- Ability to interpret sanitation, electrical, operator-safety, and food-code requirements and translate them into practical product, testing, manufacturing, and documentation requirements.
- Strong program-management, auditing, documentation, and cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to maintain accurate records and drive multiple compliance activities to completion.
- A hands-on, detail-oriented approach and willingness to travel to production and deployment sites and support prototype field evaluations as needed.
Responsibilities
- Manage the full certification lifecycle for NSF sanitation, electrical safety, and operator-safety requirements, including certification planning, third-party evaluations, testing, findings resolution, approval, and ongoing maintenance.
- Review and update the company’s compliance approach by combining business and product needs with applicable national standards, certification requirements, customer expectations, and local health codes.
- Convert regulatory and certification requirements into clear engineering requirements, design-review criteria, verification plans, acceptance criteria, and certification evidence.
- Develop practical processes for compliance documentation, material and component records, supplier certifications, change control, testing evidence, and traceability without creating unnecessary administrative burden.
- Develop and perform internal product, documentation, and production audits; identify gaps; manage corrective actions; and maintain readiness for certification-body, customer, production, and regulatory reviews.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (multiple plans, incl. HSA options).
- Company-paid life and disability insurance (short- and long-term).
- Voluntary insurance: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity.
- Optional supplemental life insurance for self, spouse, and children.
- Pet insurance discount.
- 401(k).
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
- Discretionary vacation days
- 8 paid holidays per year
- Paid sick time
- Paid Bereavement leave
- Paid Parental Leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
