Product Certifications and Marking Co-Op

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Job Description

Product Certifications and Marking Co-Op

About the Role

At Bose, we're passionate about launching innovative, compliant, and certified products that enhance the lives of our customers worldwide. We're looking for a highly motivated junior-level engineering co-op to join our Product Certification and Markings team and play a key role in organizing, documenting, and improving certification processes across global markets.

This position offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of engineering, project management, compliance, and global product certification. You'll support the team by helping to organize, document, and improve processes that ensure Bose products meet certification requirements across different regions and markets.

You will gain exposure to cross-functional collaboration, regulatory systems, tools like Smartsheet, Confluence, and Jira, and play a meaningful role in aligning stakeholders and enabling process automation. You will also have the opportunity to perform hands-on testing and teardown of products in the lab.

Key Responsibilities

As a core team member, you'll be supporting workstreams that are critical to improving the effectiveness and scalability of our product safety and certification processes such as :

Certification Process Documentation & Alignment

• Continue the process of documenting and mapping country-specific certification processes.
• Work directly with engineers, compliance leads, and regional experts to collect and organize example submission documents and collateral by region.
• Maintain up-to-date lists of country-specific contacts and signatories.
• Coordinate with cross-functional partners to align on a unified, documented certification process.
• Document the approval and signatory process for each region and update the product certification website to allow process partners to access information easily.
• Continue to develop and implement process for automated document access between tools

Document Logistics & Partner Access

• Update and document the process for certification documentation to be stored, retained, and accessed.
• Help establish and manage access control structures based on user roles.
• Build guidance and draft work instructions for how internal partners can find and use certification-related documents.

Tools and Process Improvement

• Continue the development of a process and dashboard to monitor certification expirations and renewals.
• Propose additional solutions to improve current tracking and collaboration processes.

Support Lab Improvement Objectives

• Work with Lab Engineers to improve lab test tools and software to improve lab throughput and accuracy for mechanical test systems
• Review and update lab test methods to support Requirements driven testing initiative
• Perform role of test engineer for specific collaboration programs, including reviewing and accepting requests, performing testing and analysis and writing the report to the requesting engineer

Additional Responsibilities

• Participate in team meetings, process reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Help prepare documentation or communications related to certification rollout or change management.
• Engage with global stakeholders and gain exposure to international compliance requirements.

Who You Are

You are a junior-level undergraduate student pursuing a degree in engineering, systems engineering, industrial engineering, or a related field, with an interest in project management, systems thinking, and cross-functional collaboration.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong organizational and communication skills and interest in systems thinking
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize effectively, and meet deadlines; works independently while collaborating across technical and non-technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exposure to systems engineering concepts such as requirements based design, complexity reduction and systems integration to deliver optimized solutions.
• Able to utilize AI tools to drive efficiencies in product documentation and analysis
• Familiarity with JAMA or other requirements management tool.
• Familiarity with process mapping and documentation tools (e.g., Visio, Lucidchart, or similar).
• Working knowledge or interest in tools like Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, or SharePoint.
• Comfortable working with stakeholders across engineering, compliance, legal, and operations.
• Able to balance structured work with initiative - you ask questions and propose ideas.

Why This Role Stands Out

This co-op gives you the opportunity to:

• Impact projects that enable Bose's ability to launch products globally
• Exposure to regulatory compliance and product certification in a global company.
• Build skills in project management, documentation, stakeholder engagement, and tool integration
• Work directly with experienced engineers, compliance leads, and cross-functional teams

At Bose, you're inspired to be and do your best and are rewarded for your unique talents! Our compensation is thoughtfully tailored to your skills, experience, education, and location, and goes beyond base salary. The hiring range for this position in the primary work location of Framingham, Massachusetts is: $22.00-$31.75 per hour.The hiring range for other Bose work locations may vary. In addition to competitive base pay we offer rewards including bonus programs, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, plus exclusive perks designed to support your wellbeing, and a generous employee discount where you can immerse yourself in our products and experiences. We are a proudly independent company-driven by purpose, guided by our values, and united by a belief in the power of sound. As the world leader in audio experiences, we're creating what's next-pushing boundaries and delivering transformative sound experiences for people everywhere. Join us and make your next career move a mic-drop. Let's Make Waves.

Bose is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. The EEOC's "Know Your Rights: Workplace discrimination is illegal" Poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf. Bose is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to applicant_disability_accommodationrequest@bose.com. Please include \"Application Accommodation Request\" in the subject of the email.

Our goal is to create an atmosphere where every candidate feels supported and empowered in the interviewing process. Diversity and inclusion are integral to our success, and we believe that providing reasonable accommodation is not only a legal obligation but also a fundamental aspect of our commitment to being an employer of choice. We recognize that individuals may have different needs and requirements based on their abilities, and we provide reasonable accommodations to ensure ideal conditions are met during the application process.