Product Compliance Specialist
- Ottawa, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Med-Eng* products are trusted in over 100 countries worldwide. It offers the leading brand of Explosive Ordnance Disposal protective equipment, including suits and helmets for EOD, bomb disposal and tactical teams. In addition to its bomb disposal equipment, its product line includes a vast array of specialized tools for unexploded ordnance, high risk search and demining operations. Med-Eng crew survivability blast attenuation seats and thermal management’s solutions protect military vehicle occupants and their mission critical electronics from the blast effects of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and heat stress. Med-Eng is world-renowned for its aggressive Research & Development programs and collaborative approach to meeting customer requirements.
Reporting to the Quality Assurance Manager, the Product Compliance Specialist is responsible for leading and coordinating Med-Eng's product compliance, conformity, and quality assurance activities throughout the product lifecycle.
Acting as the primary subject matter expert and partnering with Supply Chain and Operations, the role ensures that products meet the applicable regulatory, certification, customer, and contractual requirements while maintaining access to global markets.
The Specialist develops and maintains compliance frameworks, certification programs, product data integrity, labeling controls, and technical documentation. Working closely with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Product Management, Procurement, and external stakeholders, the role ensures compliance requirements are integrated into product development, sourcing, production, and post-market activities.
Duties & Responsibilities
Med-Eng* products are trusted in over 100 countries worldwide. It offers the leading brand of Explosive Ordnance Disposal protective equipment, including suits and helmets for EOD, bomb disposal and tactical teams. In addition to its bomb disposal equipment, its product line includes a vast array of specialized tools for unexploded ordnance, high risk search and demining operations. Med-Eng crew survivability blast attenuation seats and thermal management’s solutions protect military vehicle occupants and their mission critical electronics from the blast effects of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and heat stress. Med-Eng is world-renowned for its aggressive Research & Development programs and collaborative approach to meeting customer requirements.
Reporting to the Quality Assurance Manager, the Product Compliance Specialist is responsible for leading and coordinating Med-Eng's product compliance, conformity, and quality assurance activities throughout the product lifecycle.
Acting as the primary subject matter expert and partnering with Supply Chain and Operations, the role ensures that products meet the applicable regulatory, certification, customer, and contractual requirements while maintaining access to global markets.
The Specialist develops and maintains compliance frameworks, certification programs, product data integrity, labeling controls, and technical documentation. Working closely with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Product Management, Procurement, and external stakeholders, the role ensures compliance requirements are integrated into product development, sourcing, production, and post-market activities.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Own and maintain the product compliance framework, ensuring accurate, current, traceable, and audit-ready compliance status across all target markets.
- Monitor global regulatory requirements, assess business impacts, and lead compliance gap assessments and corrective actions.
- Identify, prioritize, escalate, and track regulatory, supplier, and product conformity risks through resolution.
- Integrate compliance requirements into product development, NPI, sourcing, change management, manufacturing, quality, and product lifecycle processes.
- Lead product compliance programs related to REACH, RoHS, PFAS, TSCA, California Proposition 65, Conflict Minerals, Counterfeit (GIDEP), and other applicable regulations.
- Coordinate supplier declarations, material disclosures, test reports, and supporting documentation to ensure supplier and material compliance.
- Partner with Engineering and Supply Chain to support compliant material selection, substitutions, continuity of supply, and environmental compliance requirements, including PPWR and EUDR where applicable.
- Coordinate product certification and conformity activities, including CE marking, safety certifications, customer approvals, regulatory submissions, and recertification requirements.
- Maintain technical files, declarations of conformity, certification records, test reports, and other documentation required to demonstrate compliance and market access.
- Review and approve compliance-related labels, markings, warnings, technical documentation, certificates, declarations, manuals, and customer communications.
- Provide compliance support for bids, tenders, customer submissions, audits, regulatory assessments, and government quality assurance activities.
- Govern product compliance master data within ERP and related systems, ensuring the accuracy of compliance records, certifications, declarations, restrictions, and expiry dates.
- Develop and maintain data standards, validation controls, reporting tools, and audit-ready records that provide visibility to product compliance status.
- Support risk-based quality and conformity planning through participation in DFMEA, PFMEA, control plans, inspection processes, traceability programs, and supplier readiness activities.
- Serve as the primary compliance liaison for internal and external stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, certification bodies, testing laboratories, and regulatory agencies, while maintaining readiness for customer, regulatory, internal, and third-party audits.
- University degree, college diploma, or equivalent post-secondary education in Engineering, Science, Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, Supply Chain Management, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
- Five (5) to Seven (7) years more years of progressive experience in product compliance, conformity, quality, engineering, manufacturing or supply-chain compliance, including experience leading cross-functional programs.
- Experience in defence, aerospace, personal protective equipment, industrial safety, electronics or another highly regulated product environment is strongly preferred.
- Working knowledge of global chemical, material, packaging, environmental and product conformity obligations, including Assent, REACH, RoHS, PFAS, Proposition 65, CE marking, PPWR and EUDR applicability assessment.
- Experience with ERP management, ISO 9001-based quality systems, risk management tools, internal and external audits, nonconformance and corrective-action methods;
- Ability to interpret regulations, standards, contracts, drawings, specifications, test reports and technical documentation.
- Strong written and verbal communication, organization, judgment, stakeholder leadership and project management skills.
- ASQ Certified Quality Engineer and / or Auditor preferred
- Work cooperatively with others to achieve individual, team and departmental goals
- Strong organizational skills with a good work ethic and the ability to work independently
- Must be able to travel internationally and have a valid driver’s license
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain registration under Canada's Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and successfully complete any required security screenings as a condition of employment.
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Responsibilities
Lead product compliance, conformity, and quality assurance activities throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring products meet regulatory, certification, customer, and contractual requirements across target markets. Maintain compliance programs, supplier and product records, certifications, technical documentation, labeling controls, and audit readiness while coordinating with internal teams and external stakeholders.
Requirements
Requires post-secondary education or equivalent experience in a relevant technical or business discipline and five to seven or more years of progressive experience in product compliance, quality, engineering, manufacturing, or supply-chain compliance. Candidates should have knowledge of global product and environmental regulations, ERP and quality systems, risk management, audits, and technical documentation; experience in a regulated industry and ASQ certification are preferred.
Skills
- Product Compliance
- Regulatory Compliance
- Product Conformity
- Quality Assurance
- Global Regulatory Monitoring
- Supplier Compliance
- Chemical and Material Compliance
- Product Certification
- Technical Documentation
- ERP Data Management
- Risk Management
- Audit Readiness
- Corrective Action
- Cross-Functional Program Leadership
- Stakeholder Communication
- Project Management
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Categories
- Manufacturing
- Engineering
- Legal
- Environmental & Sustainability
- Management & Leadership
Keywords
- REACH
- RoHS
- PFAS
- TSCA
- California Proposition 65
- Conflict Minerals
- GIDEP
- CE Marking
- PPWR
- EUDR
- Assent
- ISO 9001
- ERP
- DFMEA
- PFMEA
- Control Plans
- Supplier Declarations
- Material Disclosures
- Declarations of Conformity
- Technical Files
- Product Certification
- Regulatory Submissions
- Corrective Actions
- Nonconformance
- Audit Readiness
- Risk Management
- Controlled Goods Program
- Defence
- Personal Protective Equipment
- ASQ Certified Quality Engineer