Principal Compliance and Approvals Engineer, Spokes

About the Role

The role is responsible for understanding & defining the regulatory requirements within the ASEAN region and feeding those requirements into the overall product requirements. The role is also responsible for ensuring delivery of local approvals of the products within the various markets within the region.

Internally, the role interfaces on a day-to-day basis with category & engineering teams, and with the C&A teams within UK and SEA. The role also includes extensive contact with regional regulators, certification bodies, testing laboratories, industry associations and standards bodies.

Responsibilities

• Research, identify and document the local regulatory requirements for proposed products and feed these requirements into the C&A process.
• Maintain a close understanding of the regional regulatory landscape to identify potential changes, threats & opportunities coming from the regulatory environment.
• Maintain a good understanding of the potential technology direction of Dyson in order to understand threats & opportunities within the regulations.
• Manage & optimize the local approvals processes to ensure the smooth and predictable clearance of Dyson products.
• Support local approvals testing activities to resolve any issues that might arise.
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with the key players in the local approvals landscape, including: regulatory bodies, certification bodies, testing laboratories and others involved in the approvals process.
• Engage, where appropriate, with the local industry bodies and standardization committees to understand local trends and influence where possible.
• Collaborate with other Dyson teams to continuously improve the speed and effectiveness of the approvals processes.
• Act as a mentor for local C&A engineers, sharing knowledge and developing technical capability.

About You

• Broad expertise in compliance and approvals processes with the region for consumer products (or similar)
• Experience of product approvals, testing and registration for ASEAN markets
• Excellent knowledge of the local regulatory authorities and their processes
• An expert in understanding and interpreting industry standards.
• Excellent creative problem-solving and project management skills
• 10 years + experience of product approvals
• Degree in a science or engineering.
• Excellent communication in English and the local language(s) (both written and verbal).

Skills

• Technical, personal and business credibility to work effectively with cross functional teams and at different levels inside the organisation.
• Excellent creative problem solving skills.
• Ability to adapt plans to changing environments.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Detail orientated.
• Excellent collaboration skills.

Competencies

• Accountability – demonstrated through ownership and continuous achievement of ambitious goals.
• Disciplined problem solver.
• Collaborates across engineering, global and organisation teams.
• Perseveres to get the best result. Has a passion for success and overcoming obstacles.
• Has excellent influencing capability – especially with external bodies.

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.