Regulatory And Compliance Specialist

Job Type

Full time

PetSafe Brands, formerly known as Radio Systems Corporation, is headquartered in Knoxville, TN. It has been named "The Marble City" and "Scruffy City", names we have embraced for our unique charm. We are the home of 1982 World's Fair and we boast of 21 craft breweries around the city (click here for the Ale Trail). If you like to hike or camp, visit the Great Smokey Mountain National Park. Take your pick of outdoor activities from walking, tubing, running, or biking in our Urban Wilderness. Knox County has an amazing public-school system, no state income tax, low property taxes and cost of living. We host Music and Shakespeare on the Square as well as Family Movie Nights on the Square during the summer months in downtown Knoxville.

Our Company: PetSafe Brands is the world leader in pet products through our family of brands:Pet Safe Brand, Sport DOG Brand, Invisible Fence Brand, Kurgo and Premier Pet. Pet Safe Brand makes every product from leashes and harnesses to water fountains and and litter boxes. We have an ambitious goal of touching over 21 million pets, people, and communities around the world each year. We serve a broad range of pet owners from providing the hunter the best gear for a successful hunt to accommodating the "Not-So-Crazy Cat Lady" with all the entertaining toys and effective solutions she could ever imagine. We do this by creating a culture of enthusiasm, resilience, adaptability, and teamwork every day in the office. We work hard to be our community's employer of choice as we all live our purpose: We exist to unleash freedom for pet parents by keeping their pets happy, healthy and safe.

Responsible and accountable for support in ensuring Radio Systems products are compatible and compliant to environmental and other regulatory requirements throughout their complete life cycle, by coordinating testing for regulatory compliance and product safety test requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate required safety and regulatory testing between internal and external teams on new and recertified products

• Assist with the maintenance of regulatory documents, including monitoring for expiration dates and required updates

• Review results of product safety and regulatory agency testing and determine whether products met regulatory and safety requirements

• Acquire and maintain up to date SDS sheets where needed and as required by Federal regulations and Supply SDS or other HazMat information to Vendors or other outside sources as appropriate.

• Participate in DFMEA, leading reviews related to product safety and regulatory compliance.

• Work with Trade Compliance to ensure hazardous material products are received, documented, stored, shipped, and disposed of in accordance with International, Federal, State and local hazardous materials regulations.

• Prepare and send products out for CE, FCC, and CTL testing as required by retail partners or regulatory agencies.

• Review product collateral submissions to appropriate regulatory and safety standards

• Reviewing packaging claims and safety messaging for all products

• Other projects as needed

Qualifications:

• Two-year college degree

• Two years of experience in a product regulatory compliance support role

• Excellent interpersonal skills and written and oral communication skills

• Excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Office applications and Adobe.

Accountabilities:

• Successful coordination and on time completion of assigned testing projects with outside labs

• Coordination of the timely completion of required compliance audits

• Timely responses and review of documents, packaging, and labels.

• Update documents and spreadsheets related to changes in regulatory and compliance per product line.

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BENEFITS:

Working for PetSafe Brands definitely has its benefits. We offer a collaborative and creative team-oriented work environment where we encourage you to take risks to learn and grow! We offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and 401K match. In addition we offer a rich wellness program which includes an onsite health clinic, workout facility and of course, we encourage you to bring your dog to work, which is our whole reason for what we do!

PetSafe Brands is dedicated to offering equal employment opportunity for all teammates and fostering a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. At PetSafe Brand, our teammates are our greatest strength. We strive to build a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve by hiring great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression and talent. We recruit and reward teammates based on capability and performance and together we are building a culture that welcomes all dimensions of an individual's identity including race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, educational background, national origin or ancestry, religion, veteran status, or physical ability. We embrace these differences and the unique contributions each teammate brings not just because it is the right thing to do but because it makes our company stronger. While we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and a culture of belonging, we recognize that we still have more work to do and a lot more to learn.