Senior Regulatory and Compliance Engineer, Semiconductor Capital Equipment
Jabil · George Town
At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.JOB SUMMARY
At Jabil, we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world’s leading brands, providing comprehensive engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions. This position supports Jabil’s semiconductor capital-equipment business by providing technical leadership for product safety, regulatory compliance, industry standards, and quality-management requirements.
The Senior Regulatory and Compliance Engineer will serve as a subject-matter expert for the design, manufacture, modification, and certification of industrial control panels and semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The position requires advanced, hands-on expertise in UL 508A, including panel construction requirements, component selection, short-circuit current rating determination, technical documentation, and support of UL-listed panel-shop activities.
To provide broader organizational value, the role will also support applicable SEMI safety guidelines, ISO management-system standards, international product-safety requirements, customer specifications, and site quality-system processes. The engineer will work across design engineering, industrial and manufacturing engineering, quality, operations, supply chain, customers, and third-party certification organizations to ensure that products and manufacturing processes meet applicable regulatory and contractual requirements.
The position will be located in either Penang/Batu Kawan, Malaysia, or Guadalajara, Mexico, based on the selected candidate and business requirements.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
UL 508A Technical Leadership
- Serve as Jabil’s technical subject-matter expert for UL 508A industrial control-panel design and manufacturing compliance.
- Interpret and apply UL 508A requirements to electrical schematics, panel layouts, bills of material, wiring practices, overcurrent protection, enclosure construction, markings, and production processes.
- Determine and document short-circuit current ratings, including application of UL 508A Supplement SB and evaluation of component combinations.
- Review electrical designs and component selections for use of appropriately Listed or Recognized components and applicable conditions of acceptability.
- Use UL Product iQ and related certification resources to verify component status, ratings, categories, and installation limitations.
- Support the establishment, maintenance, or expansion of Jabil industrial control-panel certification and labeling capabilities.
- Act as a technical interface with UL Solutions, other Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories, inspectors, customers, and Authorities Having Jurisdiction, as applicable.
- Support UL follow-up inspections, surveillance audits, findings, corrective actions, and updates to controlled procedures.
- Develop and maintain UL 508A design guidelines, engineering checklists, standard work, approved-component practices, and compliance records.
- Train engineers, manufacturing personnel, quality inspectors, and technical staff on UL 508A requirements and compliant panel-construction practices.
- Maintain awareness of revisions to UL 508A and associated standards and translate changes into design, documentation, manufacturing, and training actions.
Semiconductor Equipment Component Compliance
- Interpret and apply relevant SEMI safety guidelines to semiconductor manufacturing, measurement, assembly, and test equipment.
- Lead or support equipment component evaluations against SEMI S2, including electrical, mechanical, chemical, fire, radiation, ventilation, emergency-control, and related EHS considerations.
- Support ergonomic design and equipment component assessments in accordance with SEMI S8.
- Facilitate product risk assessments and risk-reduction activities in accordance with SEMI S10 and applicable customer methodologies.
- Evaluate additional SEMI guidelines based on equipment scope, including SEMI S1, S3, S6, S13, S14, S18, S22, S23, S27, and S28.
- Prepare, review, or coordinate technical documentation and objective evidence required for customer acceptance or independent SEMI equipment evaluations.
- Engage early in product introduction and design-transfer activities to ensure regulatory and compliance requirements are incorporated before design release and production.
- Participate in design reviews, DFx reviews, hazard analyses, equipment qualification, and engineering change control.
- Coordinate external compliance assessments and resolve findings with internal engineering teams, customers, and third-party evaluators.
Global Product Regulatory Compliance
- Determine applicable product-safety, machinery, electrical, electromagnetic compatibility, and environmental requirements for customer products and target markets.
- Support compliance to applicable standards and regulations, which may include:
- NFPA 70, National Electrical Code
- NFPA 79
- CSA requirements
- IEC 60204-1
- IEC/UL 61010 series
- IEC 61439 series, where applicable
- EU Machinery requirements
- CE marking requirements
- UKCA requirements
- RoHS and REACH
- Applicable Mexico and Malaysia regulatory requirements
- Develop product compliance matrices identifying applicable requirements, evidence, responsible owners, open gaps, and approval status.
- Review supplier certifications, declarations, test reports, material declarations, and technical documentation for acceptability.
- Assess regulatory impact of engineering changes, component substitutions, alternate-source approvals, and obsolescence events.
- Support customer inquiries, compliance declarations, technical-file development, and product-certification deliverables.
- Coordinate compliance testing and certification activities with qualified laboratories and certification bodies.
ISO and Quality-Management-System Support
- Support the effective implementation and continual improvement of Jabil management-system processes, with primary emphasis on ISO 9001.
- Interpret applicable quality-system and product-realization requirements and translate them into practical engineering and manufacturing controls.
- Participate in internal, customer, registrar, and regulatory audits.
- Support corrective and preventive action, root-cause analysis, risk management, document control, training, supplier controls, and change-management processes.
- Develop and maintain procedures, work instructions, compliance plans, checklists, technical files, and objective evidence.
- Support relevant management-system standards based on site and customer requirements, potentially including:
- ISO 9001, Quality Management Systems
- ISO 14001, Environmental Management Systems
- ISO 45001, Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems
- ISO/IEC 17025 concepts for testing and calibration activities
- Monitor changes in standards and customer requirements and coordinate gap assessments and implementation plans.
As of September 4, 2026, ISO identifies ISO 9001:2015 as the current published edition while Edition 6 is under publication and expected to replace it. The successful candidate should therefore be capable of supporting both the existing QMS and the future transition.
Cross-Functional and Customer Support
- Partner with design engineering, industrial and manufacturing engineering, quality, operations, supply chain, sourcing, program management, and customers to integrate compliance requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
- Provide timely, risk-based recommendations that balance regulatory compliance, customer commitments, cost, schedule, manufacturability, and technical feasibility.
- Communicate complex regulatory requirements clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Lead compliance workstreams for new-product introductions, transfers, redesigns, and production launches.
- Support customer and business-unit meetings as the technical authority for assigned regulatory and compliance topics.
- Identify compliance risks, define mitigation actions, assign ownership, and escalate significant issues to appropriate leadership.
- Mentor engineers and other personnel in product-safety and regulatory-compliance practices.
- Coordinate priorities across multiple programs, customers, and manufacturing locations.
- May lead projects or technical workstreams without direct supervisory responsibility.
- Adhere to all safety and health rules and regulations associated with this position and as directed by management.
- Comply with all procedures within the company security policy.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS
KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS
Technical Knowledge
- Expert-level working knowledge of UL 508A.
- Strong knowledge of:
- Industrial control-panel architecture and construction
- SCCR determination and documentation
- UL 508A Supplement SB
- Feeder and branch-circuit protection
- Motor and control circuits
- Disconnecting means
- Industrial-control components
- Enclosure types and environmental ratings
- Wiring methods, conductor sizing, spacings, grounding, and bonding
- Markings, nameplates, schematics, and controlled documentation
- Ability to interpret electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, panel layouts, bills of material, component specifications, and certification records.
- Working knowledge of ISO 9001 principles and structured quality-management systems.
- Working knowledge of formal risk assessment, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and engineering change control.
- Ability to identify compliance gaps and recommend technically sound, practical corrective actions.
Professional Skills
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and technical decision-making capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives without relying on direct reporting authority.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to prepare concise technical reports, compliance assessments, procedures, and executive-level risk summaries.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a customer-driven environment.
- Ability to work effectively across cultures, functions, and geographic regions.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to maintaining accurate records.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment when requirements are incomplete, conflicting, or subject to interpretation.
- Ability to protect proprietary, customer, and controlled technical information.
Language and Mobility
- Professional fluency in English, both written and verbal.
- Ability to participate in technical discussions and prepare formal documentation in English.
- Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally, generally up to 15% to 25%, depending on customer and program requirements.
- Ability to work across global time zones as required.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or another relevant engineering discipline from an accredited institution.
- Equivalent education and directly relevant experience may be considered in accordance with local Jabil policies.
Experience
- Minimum 8 years of relevant engineering experience, including substantial experience in product safety, semiconductor equipment compliance, electrical controls, certification, or regulatory engineering.
- Minimum 5 years of direct, hands-on UL 508A experience involving the design, review, construction, inspection, certification, or technical oversight of industrial control panels.
- Demonstrated experience interpreting standards and converting requirements into engineering specifications, design rules, manufacturing controls, and objective evidence.
- Experience working in a complex manufacturing, contract-manufacturing, industrial-equipment, automation, or semiconductor capital equipment environment.
- Experience supporting design reviews, manufacturing processes, engineering changes, corrective actions, and internal or external audits.
- Experience interacting with certification bodies, testing laboratories, customers, auditors, inspectors, or other external compliance stakeholders.
Desired Qualifications
- Current or prior qualification as a UL 508A Manufacturer Technical Representative, or demonstrated readiness to obtain the qualification promptly after hire.
- Experience establishing, maintaining, or supporting a UL-listed industrial control-panel shop.
- Experience serving as the primary technical contact during UL follow-up inspections.
- Direct experience applying SEMI S2, S8, S10, S14, or S22 to semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
- Experience preparing for or coordinating independent SEMI S2/S8 equipment evaluations.
- Experience with semiconductor capital equipment, including process tools, metrology equipment, automation systems, gas-delivery systems, chemical-delivery systems, vacuum systems, robotics, or factory-interface equipment.
- Knowledge of NFPA 70, NFPA 79, IEC 60204-1, IEC/UL 61010, CSA requirements, CE marking, machinery safety, EMC, RoHS, and REACH.
- Formal auditor training or certification for ISO 9001 or another applicable management-system standard.
- Experience with ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO/IEC 17025, or integrated management systems.
- Experience with product risk-management methods such as hazard analysis, FMEA, fault-tree analysis, or functional-safety concepts.
- Experience in an electronics manufacturing services or high-mix, low-volume capital-equipment manufacturing environment.
- Experience supporting regulated products across North America, Europe, and Asia.
- Familiarity with Workday, PLM, ERP, document-control, and quality-management-system applications.
- Project-management or technical-leadership experience.
- Master’s degree in a relevant engineering or technical discipline.
- Spanish fluency for candidates based in Guadalajara.
- Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin, or another relevant regional language for candidates based in Penang/Batu Kawan.
Physical and Environmental Requirements
- Ability to work in office, engineering-laboratory, and manufacturing environments.
- Ability to review and inspect electrical control panels and industrial equipment.
- Ability to use standard personal protective equipment when entering manufacturing, laboratory, or customer production areas.
- Ability to sit, stand, walk, and use a computer for extended periods consistent with the essential duties of the position.
- Ability to travel by air and ground transportation, including international travel.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals to perform the essential functions of the position, consistent with applicable law and Jabil policy.
Jabil, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.