Apple's Environmental Technologies team is seeing a highly motivated, hands-on, and detail oriented Environmental Compliance Engineer. you will drive product-level compliance for world-class hardware products during their development. Your work requires you to closely partner with product development teams to implement worldwide environmental compliance requirements and standards, initiatives on energy efficiency, sustainable materials, design for environment, and utilization of safer materials. This is an opportunity to learn the full breadth of product environmental compliance, build relationships across engineering and operations, and see your work reflected in products that customers use every day.
If you love collaborating with a wide range of people and are excited to grow your expertise in the rapidly developing regulatory environment, we would love to have you. This position is offered in Apples Environmental Technologies group within Apples Hardware Engineering division. Our mission is to deliver world-leading programs to address the impacts of climate change, conserve resources, and utilize safer materials in our products. The ideal candidate will establish strong relationships with partners from engineering, design, marketing and operations teams to establish ambitious environmental objectives beyond compliance for the product.You will be responsible for driving Apple's environmental compliance on hardware products through the full development cycle. You will need to engage with product development teams to inform and execute against environmental goals and targets, closely track progress during the definition and concept phases of hardware development. You will also need to thrive in solving for solutions to complex problems.
Youll partner with hardware, software, mechanical, packaging, and operations teams to translate regulations and environmental requirements into clear, actionable product requirements. Youll plan and oversee compliance testing at Apple and partner labs, review measurement and material declaration data, and document conformity for internal review and external certification. Youll contribute to Apples Product Environmental Reports and to the data that underpins Apples 2030 carbon-neutral commitment.Bachelors or Masters in engineering or science, or related field 1-3 years of experience driving regulatory compliance projects and/or validation efforts to ensure product compliance Project management experience - managing, organizing and driving deliverables of complex projects with tight timelines Strong technical communication and documentation skills - written and verbal with diverse audiences Knowledge of consumer electronic product-related environmental regulations and standards Thrives in fast-paced environments where attention to detail is required Self-starter with high integrity, sharp attention to detail, passion for environmental compliance and to enhance Apples environmental mission Comfortable participating in design reviews to advise on applicable product compliance requirements Ability to lead regulatory compliance projects with agencies and test labs, including preparing and filing compliance documentation Experience engaging directly with R&D teams, operations, marketing on complex projects Comfortable in environments that depend on influence to drive outcomes Prior experience in test plan development and execution with a hands-on approach to troubleshooting and working cross-functionally to mitigate potential compliance risks Ability to work with multiple external lab partners to setup, execute, and monitor testing Strong foundation in Environmental regulations and standards e.g. EU RoHS, REACH, Energy-related Product framework directive, Eco Design, Energy Star, Dept. of Energy energy efficiency requirements
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