Technical Compliance Engineer

Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. is seeking a Technical Compliance Engineer in Atlanta to drive regulatory compliance for private brand and imported products. You will coordinate with engineering, labs, and suppliers to ensure protocols, BOMs and cost targets meet safety and regulatory requirements.

You will lead cross-functional teams on projects, perform cost and value analyses, and resolve product performance concerns while guiding engineering decisions to support private brand initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field.
• 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• MBA preferred.
• Mechanical or Electrical engineering background.
• Experience in manufacturing/product development.
• Costing knowledge and BOM understanding.
• Experience working with OEM suppliers.

Responsibilities

• 30% Engineering project management including product requirement development and test protocol development.
• 20% Conduct financial and value-based calculations and present findings to stakeholders.
• 40% Complete resolution of product performance concerns.
• 10% Provide general engineering guidance to deliver short-term business goals.

Skills

Engineering project management

Financial analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory knowledge

Communication

Manufacturing knowledge

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

MBA (preferred)

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Quorum

Confluence

Smartsheet

Google BigQuery

Tableau

Job description

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose:

The Technical Compliance Engineer is responsible for ensuring the compliance of regulatory and legal to sell requirements for private branded or imported products and is a business partner to the engineering team managing and supporting private brands compliance projects. They will keep track of new and updated regulations that may affect Private Brand product categories and monitor projects to ensure products sold meet these regulations. They will work with 3rd party test laboratories to write, review and update protocols to ensure safety and regulatory requirements are met through the onboarding process. The Engineer will work to align cross functional teams for new and existing processes across business units.

Key Responsibilities:

• 30% Engineering project management including product requirement development, and test protocol development
• 20% Conduct financial and value based calculations, summarize the findings for the business in presentation quality format and communicate findings to key stakeholders
• 40% Complete resolution of product performance concerns
• 10% Provide general product Engineering guidance and knowledge or evaluations as required to deliver short term business goals

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position reports to Manager
• This position has no Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most all of the time is spent sitting in the same position or standing/walking or there is some requirement to lift or handle material or equipment of moderate weight (8-20 pounds).

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or equivalent in a field of study related to the job
• Masters of Business Administration
• Product costing experience
• Extensive understanding of Bills of Materials
• Knowledge of Merchandising Financial terms
• Knowledge of INCO shipping terms
• Experience working in a manufacturing and/or product development environment including design for reduced Manufacturing and Assembly costs
• Experience working with OEM suppliers through the product development cycle
• Experience working with vertically integrated manufacturers
• Business acumen and understanding of Merchandising
• Ability to use costing software such as Boothroyd Dewhurst DFM/DFMA

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 2

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work in cross-functional team environment
• Business acumen and understanding of Merchandising
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Familiarity with Software programs such as Quorum, Confluence and smartsheet .
• Familiarity with project management and data analytic techniques ( Google BigQuery , Tableau,etc )
• Demonstrated manufacturing knowledge in areas such as plastics, metals, glass, wood, textiles and Printed Circuit boards