Product Safety & Compliance Engineer

Product Safety & Compliance Engineer
Stevenage - Transport Office, Bessemer Drive, Stevenage, SG1 2DL

Permanent, Full Time, Grade 3

Hours – 37 per week, Monday to Friday

Salary – £35,000 - £40,000 per annum depending on experience

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best‑known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

At Currys, we take product safety seriously. Our team plays a critical role in ensuring that branded products sold through Currys meet the required safety and compliance standards before reaching our customers.

You'll support the evaluation of a diverse range of consumer products. In this role, you will review technical documentation, assess product testing evidence, and help determine product and supplier risk levels. You will contribute to the development and maintenance of our risk assessment framework, undertake product and supplier evaluations, and help ensure that only safe, compliant products are brought to market through Currys.

• Develop and maintain a product and supplier risk assessment framework, using data and insight to identify risk levels across product categories and support informed business decisions.
• Support the creation and continuous improvement of structured product evaluation processes, ensuring assessment criteria are aligned to product risk, supplier trust levels and performance history.
• Stay up to date with safety regulations and industry standards across multiple product categories, researching requirements for new technologies and product areas and incorporating them into evaluation processes.
• Review technical documentation, test reports and compliance evidence to verify products meet relevant safety and regulatory requirements before being approved for sale.
• Partner with Buying teams, suppliers and manufacturers to embed product safety and compliance checks into the purchasing critical path, enabling efficient decision‑making without impacting speed to market.
• Monitor product safety investigations, regulatory updates and product recalls, ensuring timely action is taken to prevent unsafe products from entering, or remaining within, the Currys product range.

• Experience working within product development, product safety, compliance, quality assurance, or a related technical environment.
• Understanding of product safety requirements, quality management principles and the processes used to assess product compliance and risk.
• Strong interest in consumer technology, with the ability to quickly develop knowledge of new and emerging products and technologies.
• Awareness of commercial product development and purchasing processes, with the ability to balance robust compliance checks against business timelines and speed to market.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to work effectively with suppliers, manufacturers, buying teams and other internal stakeholders.

• Performance‑related bonus.
• Competitive pension scheme.
• Product discounts on the latest tech.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives.

We’re always looking for ways to reward great work and help you develop the career you want with new opportunities, ongoing training and skills for life. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re positioned to make a real impact on people and the planet.

Every voice has a space at our table and we’re committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to give you a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process. If you need any additional assistance with your application, please email and we’ll do our best to help.