Sr Regulatory Engineer

Milwaukee Tool•Brookfield, WI

About The Position

Under the direction of Product Safety and Regulatory leadership, you will serve as a senior technical resource responsible for evaluating and managing product safety and regulatory compliance risks throughout the product lifecycle. You will lead hazard analysis activities, provide regulatory guidance to cross-functional teams, support global compliance strategies, and mentor developing engineers while ensuring products meet applicable safety, regulatory, and certification requirements.

Requirements

Requires a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Biomedical, or related field preferred) or technical equivalent.
5+ years of experience in product safety, regulatory compliance, certification, reliability, quality, design engineering, testing, or related technical risk assessment activities, preferably involving personal protective equipment (PPE), fall protection, power tools, lithium-ion batteries, charging systems, outdoor power equipment, accessories, or consumer products.
Possess strong verbal, written and organizational skills essential to professional communication.
Experience influencing cross-functional teams and communicating complex technical requirements to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Show an emphasis on and adherence to schedule and attention to detail.
Ability to travel both domestically and internationally, as necessary.

Responsibilities

Evaluate information and render opinion as to the safety of a concept, design, or product.
Serve as the technical product safety lead for assigned product categories, platforms, or complex programs, utilizing hazard-based analysis techniques to develop safety opinions and recommendations regarding the safety of product concepts, designs, and proposed changes.
Advise Project Leaders, Engineers and Designers regarding safety requirements including tests and design constraints to minimize risk of injury and/or property damage.
Communicate with external customers regarding product safety matters.
Coordinate with cross-functional teams to incorporate relevant standards, regulations, and internal safety expectations into product safety analyses, and clearly communicate the requirements to technical and non-technical cross-functional stakeholders.
Supervise product safety testing, including preparation of test sample(s), execution of the test(s), test reporting and data analysis.
Resolve ambiguous or higher-risk safety questions by applying engineering judgment, standards knowledge, field experience, test evidence, and consultation with appropriate internal or external authorities.
Incorporate lessons learned from post-sale safety feedback, field issues, claims, incidents, quality data, and corrective action activity into new product/project reviews.
Mentor and onboard other engineers by coaching technical judgment, facilitation skills, documentation quality, escalation discipline, and cross-functional communication.
Review and provide feedback for operator's manuals and on-product markings.
Assist the Department Director in the execution of recalls.
Be conversant with the latest OSHA requirements and industry safety standards, rules or regulations. Where requirements are unclear, assist in obtaining an interpretation from the appropriate authority.