Engineering Compliance Manager - North America

Shape the future of product compliance at Silent-Aire/Johnson Controls!

The Engineering Compliance Manager will lead and scale product compliance across North America (USA, Canada, and Mexico) at Silent-Aire / Johnson Controls. The North American Engineering Compliance Manager is responsible for leading and evolving the enterprise compliance strategy across the North American product portfolio. This role ensures that designs, processes, and engineering changes consistently meet regulatory, safety, certification, and professional practice requirements across all applicable jurisdictions.

Why Join Us

At Silent-Aire / Johnson Controls, we create safe, sustainable, and innovative environments. In this role, you will have a direct impact on shaping compliance strategies that influence both our products and our customers’ success.

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation aligned with the scope and impact of the role.
• Growing Industry: Silent-Aire serves the rapidly expanding data center market, with strong partnerships across leading hyperscale technology companies.
• Executive Visibility: Direct reporting to the Executive Director of Engineering with regular interaction with senior leadership.
• Strategic Impact: Ownership of regulatory programs that directly influence product innovation, certification, and market access.
• Innovation & Sustainability: Join an organization committed to advancing safer, smarter, and more sustainable building technologies.

Key Responsibilities

Compliance Strategy & Leadership:

• Define and lead a scalable compliance strategy across North America
• Develop and lead a team of regional Engineering Compliance Officers
• Standardize governance, processes, and tools across product lines

Regulatory & Standards Compliance:

• Maintain expertise in UL, CSA, NEC, NFPA, ASME, ASHRAE, ISO, IEC, NOM, and other applicable standards
• Translate regulatory requirements into actionable engineering expectations
• Monitor regulatory changes and drive integration

Product Certification & External Engagement:

• Lead certification strategies and submissions (UL/CSA/NOM)
• Interface with certification bodies, clients, and AHJs
• Manage audits, findings, and corrective actions

Professional Engineering Compliance:

• Ensure compliance with APEGA, U.S. PE and Mexican frameworks
• Govern stamping and professional accountability
• Lead compliance audits

Risk & Design Assurance:

• Integrate compliance in DFMEA and risk processes
• Drive design for compliance practices

Cross-Functional Integration:

• Partner across Engineering, Quality, Operations and Supply Chain
• Support supplier compliance

Monitoring and Reporting:

• Establish KPIs, dashboards, and executive updates
• Monitor regulatory changes and assess impacts to existing and in-development products, ensuring timely communication and rapid integration of updated requirements into engineering and product development processes.

Required Qualifications

• College or university degree, preferably in a related technical or engineering discipline.
• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience leading compliance programs or teams.
• Strong knowledge of North American regulatory frameworks and certification processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineering (P.Eng.), Professional Licensee – Engineering (P.L.Eng.), or Technologist (C.E.T.).
• Experience with HVAC Products, Data Center infrastructure, industrial equipment, or power systems.
• Prior experience supporting audits or working directly with third-party certification bodies.
  

HIRING SALARY RANGE: $110,000-$165,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.) This position includes a competitive benefits package. The posted salary range reflects the target compensation for this role. However, we recognize that exceptional candidates may bring unique skills and experiences that exceed the typical profile. If you believe your
background warrants consideration beyond the stated range, we encourage you to apply. To support an efficient and fair hiring process, we may use technology assisted tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to help identify and evaluate candidates. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by human reviewers. For details, please visit the About Us tab on the Johnson Controls Careers site at