Looking to build your career with a company that values innovation, stability, and people? Join our dedicated team as a Regulatory Compliance Specialist in Bridgeton, MO.
Since 1946, Hunter Engineering has been aligning cutting-edge technology with a strong commitment to quality. As a family-owned, American-made company, Hunter is the global leader in automotive service equipment, with our products used in over 130 countries by top vehicle manufacturers, tire companies, and service centers.
We’re proud to be recognized as a Best Places to Work finalist by the St. Louis Business Journal for five consecutive years (2022 – 2026) – a testament to our commitment to our people. Here, employees are supported, challenged, and take pride in their work. We offer exceptional benefits, a healthy work-life balance, and meaningful opportunities for professional growth.
If you’re ready to join a team that’s shaping the future of automotive service, read on.
As a Specialist, Regulatory Compliance, you will support Hunter’s product compliance, regulatory approvals, certification programs, risk management activities, and compliance testing efforts. You will work cross-functionally with Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and external regulatory entities to ensure products meet applicable domestic and international regulatory standards.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop and execute global product compliance, certification, and market access strategies.
- Define regulatory requirements and certification roadmaps for new product programs
- Embed compliance-by-design practices into product planning, design reviews, risk assessments, verification, validation, and launch decisions
- Manage certification testing, submissions, approvals, renewals, listings, audits, and factory inspections.
- Coordinate work and communication with regulatory agencies, certification bodies, notified bodies, consultants, and test laboratories
- Own sustained compliance for released products; including regulatory changes, engineering changes, supplier changes, and component obsolescence.
- Maintain technical files, declarations, certificates, test reports, product reports, labels, manuals, and other compliance records.
- Lead audit readiness, responses to findings, and regulatory corrective actions.
- Coordinate product certification activities with ETL, UL, international safety and compliance organizations, and foreign regulatory and certification agencies.
- Monitor emerging global requirements and provide leadership with clear visibility to mitigate compliance risks, schedules, investment needs, and market impacts.
- Additional duties as assigned
What You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Regulatory Compliance, Business Administration, or related discipline.
- 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in product compliance, certification, product safety, regulatory affairs, quality engineering, or a related field.
- Experience managing several relevant certifications or approvals, i.e. CE, UL, ETL, FCC, FDA/CDRH, laser compliance, ALI, CSA, EAC/EAEU, or other international requirements.
- Experience working with certification bodies, regulatory agencies, consultants, and independent laboratories.
- Experience leading or supporting product certification audits, surveillance activities, or factory inspections.
- Strong product management, technical documentation, cross-functional leadership, and communication skills with internal teams and external organizations are essential.
- The ability to interpret complex requirements and translate them into practical products and process actions.
- Knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 17025, IEC standards, machinery regulations, environmental substance requirements, or functional safety standards.
- Professional certifications preferred
What We Offer:
- Industry-Leading Healthcare Coverage
- Profit-Sharing Plan with Safe Harbor Contribution
- Generous Paid Time Off & Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- Free Onsite Fitness & Recreation Center
Join us in our mission to ‘Align People and Innovation to Drive Excellence!’
- Make Lives Better Together
- Take Pride in the Extraordinary
- Define the Standard
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Regulatory Compliance, Business Administration, or a related discipline
- At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in product compliance, certification, product safety, regulatory affairs, quality engineering, or a related field
- Experience managing certifications or approvals such as CE, UL, ETL, FCC, FDA/CDRH, laser compliance, ALI, CSA, or EAC/EAEU
- Experience working with certification bodies, regulatory agencies, consultants, and independent laboratories
- Experience leading or supporting product certification audits, surveillance activities, or factory inspections
- Strong product management, technical documentation, cross-functional leadership, and communication skills
- Ability to interpret complex requirements and translate them into practical product and process actions
- Knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 17025, IEC standards, machinery regulations, environmental substance requirements, or functional safety standards
- Professional certifications
Hunter Engineering Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hunter Engineering Company and has not been reviewed or approved by Hunter Engineering Company.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many salaried and plant roles, with consistent descriptions of good pay and fair compensation. Earning potential can be notably strong in consultative field roles when performance and territory align.
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Retirement Support — A Safe Harbor 401(k) with an automatic company contribution is paired with a separate profit‑sharing plan. Plan specifics include immediate vesting for Safe Harbor funds and a defined vesting timeline for profit sharing.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation that scales with tenure, personal days, and a broad paid holiday schedule are described. Parental and adoption leave complement the package, with paid volunteer time also noted.
Hunter Engineering Company Insights
What We Do
Hunter Engineering Company is a global leader in automotive service equipment, offering state-of-the-art wheel alignment systems, wheel balancers, tire changers, vehicle inspection equipment, brake lathes and more. Since 1946, when Automotive Hall of Fame inductee Lee Hunter founded Hunter Engineering, the company has built a reputation for innovation and visionary leadership in the application of the newest technologies to automotive undercar service. Hunter's award-winning research and development team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers are responsible for hundreds of patented and exclusive features that make Hunter products the most productive undercar service equipment available. Hunter has a total of over 350 awarded patents while releasing an average of 7-10 new patents each year. Hunter fields the largest dedicated sales and service force in the undercar service industry with approximately 390+ sales representatives and 410+ independent service representatives throughout the United States.
