Senior Technical Regulatory Compliance Engineer

Job Title: Electrification Compliance – Engineer

Salary/Grade: £57,737 - £86,605 (depending on experience)

Location: Peterborough, UK

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Up to 12% bonus

• Contributory pension scheme - Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution up to 10%.

• Contributory share scheme - Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee's contribution.

• Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase.

This position is currently full time in-office work model, requiring a 5-day weekly office presence onsite at our (Peterborough) office.

About E+ES

Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.

Caterpillar’s Electrification + Energy Solutions (E+ES) division focuses on delivering advanced electrified power train, zero-emissions products/technologies, and the solutions and services associated with these technologies. Focus areas include batteries, fuel cells, motors, inverters, micro grid controllers, charging, energy storage systems, lifecycle solutions/services and integration of components for ePowertrain solutions across industries.

We are looking for top talent to build and scale the next generation of technologies, products and services to help our customers build a better, more sustainable, world. We need self-motivated, intelligent and team-oriented individuals to make our plans a reality. Individuals with high emotional intelligence, humility and openness to discovery will thrive in the teams we are building.

The opportunity:

As a Compliance Engineer, the successful candidate will work as part of a cross-functional engineering team to assess technical solutions that satisfy regulatory requirements for Battery, Fuel Cell, Charging and Powertrain systems. The role will contribute to safe product development by applying relevant safety standards, lead risk assessments, helping define verification needs, and documenting compliance evidence to support engineering decisions.

The role involves supporting product development teams in interpreting safety standards, identifying hazards, evaluating design options, and defining practical compliance actions. This includes contributing to risk reduction, verification planning, issue resolution, and continuous improvement of engineering processes that enable safe, compliant and efficient delivery of new technologies and products. You will be working on a range of new and exciting technologies, supporting the development of prototype machinery, and customer solutions as part of the energy transition of our products.

What you will do:

• Support regional compliance experts and product development teams in interpreting global regulatory and safety requirements for electrified products.

• Work with engineers to assess technical solutions, identify hazards, review design alternatives, and document practical actions that support safe and compliant product development.

• Contribute to risk assessments and the identification of risk reduction measures through the product development process.

• Help define compliance and verification evidence required to demonstrate alignment with relevant product safety standards and legal requirements.

• Support the resolution of technical issues by applying recognised engineering best practices, industry standards and functional safety principles.

• Using your knowledge of safe electrical design principles and best practices, you will ensure that safety and functional safety requirements can be met.

• Support cross-functional teams throughout the design life cycle, providing proactive compliance guidance from early concept development through verification and product delivery.

What you have:

Education:

• Qualifications in an Engineering discipline relevant to electrical, electronic, control system or electrified products, or progressive experience in an engineering compliance, product safety or verification role.

Risk Assessment and Safety Verification - Level Working Knowledge:

• Produces, interprets and applies risk assessments, hazard analyses and safety verification records.

• Identifies safety, electrical, control system and technology risks relevant to electrification products.

• Works with engineering teams to define risk reduction measures and ensure they are implemented and verified.

• Maintains clear records of the key steps, assumptions, decisions and evidence needed to support product safety and compliance conclusions.

Product Safety Standards and Engineering Compliance - Level Working Knowledge:

• Experience applying product safety standards and legal requirements to engineering designs and system integration decisions.

• Experience interpreting and implementing requirements from product standards such as IEC 60204-1, ISO 12100, ISO 13849 and IEC 61508.

• Able to translate standards requirements into clear engineering requirements, design constraints, verification activities and compliance evidence.

• Contributes to best practice documentation that supports consistent engineering decisions and safe product delivery.

Collaborating - Level Working Knowledge:

• Ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups, in a constructive and collaborative manner across Caterpillars’ global team.

• Helps solve business problems and meet business goals through collaborative processes.

• Helps promote collaboration across functional areas of the business.

• Excellent communication / influencing skills at all levels.

N.B The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined. Pending the number of applications, the criteria for the position may be enhanced to facilitate shortlisting.