Product Sustainability Engineer

Sustainability Domain

Own the technical compliance perspective for the Ecodesign / Sustainable Design domain and provide clear guidance that product development teams can implement.

Ensure Sustainability requirements that cut across commodities and product categories are consistently interpreted and communicated as engineering requirements.

Translate Regulations into Engineering Requirements (Design Impactful Focus)

• Distill complex regulatory requirements into clear engineering expectations and design guidance, including examples such as: minimum recycled content requirements, design for recyclability, performance criteria, design for reusability, minimization of packaging empty space (void space), user replaceability requirements (e.g., batteries).
• Identify deltas between current product/packaging designs and emerging requirements and translate those deltas into actionable inputs for programs.

Cross Discipline Integration (Systems Thinking as the Method)

• Integrate Sustainability requirements across engineering functions and existing compliance domains so obligations do not fall through gaps when requirements span safety, materials, energy efficiency, packaging, serviceability, documentation, or labeling.
• Partner with domain owners to ensure Sustainability-related requirements are clearly defined and appropriately owned for execution.
• Partner with Legal on Monitoring and Interpretation.

Enable Execution Through Clear Inputs

• Provide the technical requirements, artifacts, and guidance needed for compliance execution teams to support certification/registration and compliance documentation activities when Sustainable requirements drive new documentation/labeling obligations.

Domain Development and Continuous Improvement

• Develop and maintain Sustainability requirements, technical guidance, and frameworks to enable consistent application across programs.
• Partner with domain engineers and program teams to ensure consistent interpretation and implementation of Sustainability requirements across product development efforts.
• Clarify complex or ambiguous cross-domain topics where requirements are not yet fully defined or operationalized.
• Continuously evolve the Sustainability compliance domain based on regulatory developments, implementation experience, and lessons learned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field
• 5-10 years of experience in product compliance, engineering, or related technical roles
• Domain ownership with systems thinking
• Ability to lead a cross-disciplinary compliance domain that inherently spans multiple engineering areas
• Regulatory interpretation to technical translation
• Ability to work with Legal to extract technical obligations from complex requirements and express them as clear engineering requirements
• Cross-functional influence
• Ability to align engineering, packaging, sourcing, service, and compliance stakeholders without direct authority
• Clarity and precision
• Ability to distill complex inputs into crisp guidance, requirements, and decision support artifacts
• Proactive mindset
• Ability to operate with long lead time awareness so design impactful requirements are integrated early enough to avoid late churn