Product Safety Regulatory Compliance Principal Engineer

Johnson Controls

Principal Engineer leading product safety compliance at Johnson Controls. Evaluating risks and ensuring safety regulations across engineering projects.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeRemote • Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $126,000 - $189,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Evaluate and mitigate potential safety liability risks for the JCI product portfolio
Lead and conduct risk assessments as well as conduct manufacturing audits to verify safety and regulatory compliance
Lead process improvements to drive proactive and sustained compliance in the product line
Work on safety reviews of DFMEA/PFMEA/Control Plan
Perform root cause analysis, risk assessment, resolution, and field communications
Conduct product safety audits at the manufacturing sites
Ensure global safety standards and city, state, country or province codes are met

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical or chemical engineering discipline
A minimum 8+ years of extensive demonstrated experience and knowledge of Product Safety Compliance to UL, CSA, IEC, EN, etc. standards for commercial and/or industrial products
Demonstrated high level Project Management, leadership and mentoring skills
Demonstrated track record of achieving successful product safety compliance outcomes, remediating compliance issues, and supporting regulatory inspections
Ability to interpret technical safety and regulatory requirements and work well with safety agencies and regulatory authorities
Ability to build partnerships, handle complex situations, mediate issues and build consensus
Travel up to 20%, typically North America based (possibly some future international travel)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive benefits package

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Hard Skills & Tools

risk assessmentmanufacturing auditsroot cause analysisDFMEAPFMEAControl Planproduct safety complianceregulatory complianceproject managementsafety audits

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationproblem-solvingpartnership buildingconflict mediationconsensus building