ETC is a global leader in lighting, rigging, and power control solutions is seeking a Compliance Engineer to join our team in Middleton. ETC products are used in theaters, concert venues, schools, attractions, houses of worship, and architectural spaces around the world. For more than 50 years, we've combined the resources of a global company with an employee-focused culture that puts people first. As a 100% employee-owned company, we all share in our success and are committed to building innovative products and exceptional customer experiences.
What You'll Be Doing
As a Compliance Engineer, you'll play a key role in ensuring our products meet global regulatory and safety requirements throughout the product development lifecycle. This position will primarily support our HES product lines, including development efforts for our Hog product line, automated lighting, and fixture products, with opportunities to assist our LED product group as business needs allow.
In a typical day, you'll collaborate with engineering teams to review product designs, identify potential compliance concerns, and develop testing strategies. You'll attend project meetings, provide guidance on applicable regulatory requirements, create and coordinate compliance test plans, perform pre-compliance troubleshooting and testing, and work closely with external testing laboratories to achieve product certifications. This is a highly collaborative, hands-on role that combines technical problem-solving, product development support, and regulatory compliance expertise.
What We're Looking For
The ideal candidate is organized, adaptable, and comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously. Strong troubleshooting and critical thinking skills are essential, as this role requires evaluating product designs, interpreting regulatory requirements, and balancing input from a variety of stakeholders.
Key qualifications include:
Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field, with Electrical Engineering preferred
Technical aptitude with strong problem-solving and investigative skills
Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities effectively
Strong communication skills and the ability to present recommendations and adapt plans based on stakeholder feedback
Experience working within a product development environment
Familiarity with product safety compliance standards; EMC compliance experience is a plus
Candidates with experience in product compliance, product safety testing, such as automotive, appliance, or other regulated industries will be especially well-positioned for success.
Travel & Work Environment
This position is primarily onsite in Middleton. Limited travel may be required to support testing activities, product builds, or visits to testing laboratories.
Questions? Contact Katie Barreau at 608-824-5329 or [email protected].
Representative Responsibilities:
• Assumes design responsibility for portions of project
• Makes design modifications or improvements to development projects
• Maintains project reference documentation
• Develops test and verification procedures
• Analyzes project problems to determine probable cause and potential solutions
• Conducts necessary investigative work pertinent to designs
• May be involved in the compilation of project schedules, specifications, test plans, equipment purchases, and release related documentation
• May be involved in departmental process and quality programs
• Have a working knowledge of global regulatory standards for a specific product or product family
• Focus on product safety evaluations
• Researching and identifying applicable global regulatory, industry compliance standards and codes for a specific product or product family. Develop a compliance program based on these standards
• Identifying new test equipment to increase regulatory compliance testing capabilities
• Prevents compliance issues by collaborating with engineering teams, reviewing designs, identifying and resolving compliance issues in products
• Determine compliance by establishing compliance test standards, performing diagnostic tests to analyze failures and help make corrections to solve the issue.
• Have a strong understanding of emission, immunity, and product safety tests for global regulatory standards.
• Design immunity tests setup for product operation verification. Communicate test setups to final test house
• Organizes compliance program by preparing timetables, cost estimates and required resources including test laboratories and equipment
• Documents compliance by completing approval applications, recording tests results, and maintaining a compliance database for each product or product family
• May be involved in continuation engineering maintenance and manufacturing floor support of existing products
• Schedules and attends identified training classes
• Participates as a team member, works effectively in a team environment
• Becomes familiar with tools and applications utilized by department
• Learns department and corporate policies, procedures and plans
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Completes special projects and assignments in a positive and timely manner
• Ability to travel
Minimum Qualifications:
• Technical Bachelor’s Degree
• All levels of previous job-related experience will be considered
• Good group interaction skills
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrates thorough documentation skills in the development of materials used within the department or division
• Demonstrates ability to dissect problems and assignments into manageable tasks
• Demonstrates ability to make independent decisions
• Demonstrates ability to systematically solve problems of moderate scope and perform root cause analysis
• Contributes to the creation of new solutions
• Identifies problems and begins to determine alternatives
• Ability to accurately estimate time required to complete tasks
• Understands and applies accepted engineering principles and practices
• Performs design or modification of a product, service, or process
• Familiar with the application of company and industry design standards
• General knowledge of EMC standards is a plus
Skills Required
- Technical bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field
- Experience working within a product development environment
- Technical aptitude and strong problem-solving, investigative, and root-cause-analysis skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities
- Strong written, oral, and group communication skills
- Strong documentation skills
- Ability to make independent decisions and systematically solve problems
- Knowledge of accepted engineering principles and practices
- Familiarity with company and industry design standards
- Familiarity with product safety compliance standards
- Electrical engineering background
- EMC compliance experience or knowledge of EMC standards
- Product compliance or product safety testing experience in automotive, appliance, or other regulated industries
- Ability to travel as needed
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What We Do
A global leader in the manufacturing of lighting and rigging technology, ETC employs nearly 1400 people in 13 corporate offices around the world. ETC is proud of its industry reputation for unmatched technical and customer service, 24/7/365. And with a family of over 300 authorized service centers throughout the world, staffed by hundreds of certified technicians, customers are never far from an ETC resource with a face and a name. ETC develops professional tools and makes them accessible to everyone. Their products are found in small and large venues worldwide, such as theatres, churches, restaurants, hotels, schools, television studios, casinos, theme parks, and opera houses. Founded in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1975, ETC was begun with the passionate belief that there was a better way to make a lighting control console. A small group of university students challenged themselves by creating a microprocessor-based console that outdid other boards on the market at the time. That entrepreneurial spirit grew into an award-winning business. To learn more about ETC and our history of innovation, visit www.etcconnect.com.
