Role: Compliance Engineer
Location: Smithville, Tennessee 37166
Experience Required: 7+ years
Travel: Up to 20%
Let’s Create Our Future Together at The AES Group
The AES Group is a technology and engineering consulting company with more than 20 years of experience connecting businesses with skilled professionals and innovative solutions.
Why Join This Opportunity?
- Long-term contract of 12 months or more
- High-visibility global compliance role
- Cross-functional exposure to Engineering, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, and Product Development
- Ownership of domestic and international product certifications
- Hands-on involvement across the complete product lifecycle
- Collaborative office, laboratory, and manufacturing environment
Position Overview
The AES Group Inc. is seeking an experienced Compliance Engineer to support one of our clients with product certification and regulatory compliance.
This role will lead compliance activities from product design through production and market release, ensuring products meet applicable safety, environmental, regulatory, and certification requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead compliance activities for new and existing products.
- Manage certifications and approvals, including UL, ETL, CSA, CE, UKCA, IEC, and FCC.
- Coordinate with certification agencies, regulatory authorities, and third-party laboratories.
- Interpret electrical safety, mechanical safety, EMC, environmental, and energy-efficiency standards.
- Participate in product design reviews and identify compliance risks early.
- Coordinate testing, samples, technical documentation, corrective actions, and follow-up evaluations.
- Perform and document product safety risk assessments.
- Maintain technical files, declarations of conformity, test reports, and certification records.
- Monitor regulatory changes and assess their impact on products.
- Support production changes, component substitutions, audits, inspections, and supplier transitions.
- Provide compliance guidance and training to internal teams.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.
- At least 7 years of experience in product compliance, certification, or regulatory engineering.
- Strong knowledge of North American and international product safety standards.
- Experience working with certification bodies and testing laboratories.
- Ability to interpret technical standards, regulations, and certification requirements.
- Experience with electrical safety, mechanical safety, EMC, environmental, or energy-efficiency compliance.
- Strong communication, documentation, organization, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with commercial equipment, appliances, industrial products, or electromechanical systems.
- Knowledge of CE marking, LVD, EMC, and RoHS requirements.
- Experience managing UL or equivalent certification programs.
- Familiarity with international market-access requirements and quality systems.
- Experience in manufacturing, laboratory, or product development environments.
Working Requirements
This role is primarily office-based with occasional work in laboratory and manufacturing settings. Candidates must be able to travel up to 20% and occasionally lift equipment or materials weighing up to 30 pounds.
Ready to make an impact? Apply now and join us on our journey!
AES is a premier technology consulting company that brings together businesses and talent to deliver the most innovative technology solutions that create the most positive impact to society.
In the last 20 years, we have developed innovative best-in-class technology solutions to the world’s forward-thinking companies on four key service areas:
- Customer Experience: engaging customers with differentiating digital experiences to sustain
business relevance
- Employee Experience: enabling employees to learn, collaborate, and grow to sustain business
performance
- Business Solutions: transforming and optimizing business operations to sustain business resilience
- Emerging Technology: exploring and adopting emerging technology to transform business model
Our team ensures that your favorite coffee shop has the right amount of people serving you at any given time. Our team ensures that the governance board of a global company has the right ESG insights to make the most sensible actions for the world. The list goes on and on. At the core of
what we do is creating the future that is right for everyone, with the right technology, and with the right talent.