Engineering Regulatory Compliance Manager

Job Description:

At Pentair, you will work alongside passionate problem-solvers who are committed to the future of our planet. We put our mission into practice, helping the world sustainably move, improve, and enjoy water, life's most essential resource. From our residential water filtration to industrial water management to pool products and more, our 9,000 global employees serve customers in more than 150 countries, working to help create a better world for people and the planet through smart, sustainable water solutions.

We have an opportunity for an Engineering Regulatory Compliance Manager to join our Sanford NC team. You will lead the product regulatory compliance function for pool and spa equipment and is accountable for ensuring products are designed, certified, manufactured, documented, and maintained in compliance with applicable safety, energy-efficiency, environmental, and agency requirements. This hands-on leader establishes the compliance strategy, infrastructure, processes, tools, and documentation controls needed to support both domestic and global markets across the full product lifecycle—from concept and design input through certification, production release, sustaining engineering, design change control, and post-market support.

This role serves as the internal subject-matter leader for product certification and regulatory interpretation, providing clear and practical guidance to Engineering, Product Management, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Service, and leadership teams. The Regulatory Compliance Manager also acts as a primary technical liaison with external laboratories, certification bodies, regulatory agencies, industry associations, suppliers, and customers to obtain and maintain approvals for products such as pumps, heaters, sanitizers, controls, filtration products, lighting, automation, and related pool and spa systems.

You will:
· Lead, develop, and manage the Regulatory Compliance team, including priorities, resource planning, technical development, performance management, and execution of compliance deliverables for both domestic and global markets.
· Define and execute product-compliance strategy for new product development, product changes, market expansion, energy-efficiency programs, and legacy-product sustainment.
· Establish and maintain scalable compliance infrastructure, including systems, procedures, templates, traceability tools, standards access, dashboards, work instructions, documentation controls, and compliance metrics.
· Determine applicable regulatory and certification requirements for pool and spa products, including but not limited to safety, electrical, mechanical, energy-efficiency, environmental, labeling, and technical-documentation requirements.
· Lead product certification and approval activities with external agencies and laboratories, including but not limited to UL, Intertek, TÜV, NSF, FCC, IEC, and other applicable domestic and international requirements.
· Translate standards and regulatory requirements into clear engineering requirements, design inputs, test plans, acceptance criteria, documentation deliverables, and certification schedules.
· Partner with Engineering, Product Management, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Service, and leadership teams to identify compliance risks early, resolve certification issues, and maintain alignment to project timelines.
· Manage regulatory-impact assessments for design changes, supplier changes, manufacturing changes, software or firmware updates, label changes, component substitutions, and other changes that may affect certification status.
· Ensure certified products, labels, instructions, critical components, manufacturing configurations, technical files, certificates, test…