R&D Compliance Lead — Hybrid, Audits & Documentation

Alfen B.V.; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

27 vacation days + 13 ADV (additional)

Hybrid working

Company laptop

Online learning platform

Employee associations AlFun and Young/

Pension with PME

Travel allowance

Job summary

Alfen B.V. is seeking an experienced Compliance & Regulatory Governance expert for its R&D team in EV charging.

You will ensure development and testing activities meet regulations, quality frameworks and certification requirements, while supporting engineering teams with compliance questions and coordinating external audits. You will collaborate with Product, Platform, and discipline experts, maintain documentation integrity, monitor KPIs, and drive improvements to strengthen product quality and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics or Technical Informatics.
• 3–5+ years of experience in R&D, compliance, testing, certification, quality or multidisciplinary product development.
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks, quality systems and engineering processes.
• VCA certification; VP LS/VP HS qualifications are an advantage.
• Strong communication skills and stakeholder collaboration abilities.
• Proficiency in Dutch and English, spoken and written.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring that development and testing activities comply with regulations, standards and certification requirements.
• Coordinating external auditors, certification bodies and technical experts.
• Monitoring compliance risks and supporting mitigation actions.
• Maintaining complete, traceable documentation of development and testing activities.
• Supporting the introduction of new tools and methods to enhance compliance in engineering.
• Monitoring and reporting KPIs such as quality, hours, issues and deviations.
• Maintaining competency frameworks and identifying training needs within R&D.
• Acting as sparring partner for engineers and team leads on compliance, safety and standards.
• Ensuring alignment between R&D, Test, Product Development and external partners.
• Supporting teams in resolving quality or compliance issues, including root cause analysis.
• Contributing to design reviews and evaluations to verify technical and compliance quality.
• Analyzing R&D workflows to identify compliance risks.
• Recommending improvements to strengthen product quality, efficiency and cost effectiveness.
• Supporting implementation of process improvements and new work methods.
• Embedding lessons learned from audits, deviations or evaluations into structural improvements.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical/Electrical/Electronics/Technical Informatics

Job description

Alfen B.V. is seeking an experienced Compliance & Regulatory Governance expert for its R&D team in EV charging.

You will ensure development and testing activities meet regulations, quality frameworks and certification requirements, while supporting engineering teams with compliance questions and coordinating external audits. You will collaborate with Product, Platform, and discipline experts, maintain documentation integrity, monitor KPIs, and drive improvements to strengthen product quality and