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Product Compliance Engineer – EU Drinking Water Directive

Salary Competitive
Location Westerham - TN16
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This is a Temporary, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

Join Our Team as a Product Compliance Engineer – EU Drinking Water Directive – Ensure Excellence Across EMEAA Water Brands

We are seeking a knowledgeable and driven Product Compliance Engineer – EU Drinking Water Directive to join our EMEAA Compliance & Test team on a Fixed-Term Contract until February 2027. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for ensuring all EMEAA Water products meet the requirements of the upcoming EU Drinking Water Directive. You will collaborate closely with design teams, suppliers, and certification bodies, becoming the subject matter expert and driving compliance excellence across our product portfolio.

What You Will Be Responsible For:
• Develop and maintain in-depth expertise on the EU Drinking Water Directive and its implementing acts.
• Monitor regulatory changes and ensure up-to-date knowledge is shared with stakeholders.
• Communicate requirements to key stakeholders, suppliers, and design teams, providing guidance and training where needed.
• Review wetted parts information from design teams and suppliers, ensuring compliance and identifying necessary changes.
• Work with raw material manufacturers to obtain compliance information and documentation.
• Compile wetted parts information for third-party submissions, including risk grouping and supporting documentation.
• Arrange and coordinate third-party testing, evaluation, and certification—including completing applications, obtaining quotes, placing purchase orders, and managing queries.
• Calculate and track costs related to testing and certification activities.
• Collaborate with suppliers, purchasing, QA, and SQA teams to ensure compliant materials are used and evidence is obtained and maintained.
• Work with certifiers and suppliers to arrange and participate in factory audits as required.
• Prepare EU Declarations of Conformity and determine product marking requirements.
• Raise and progress engineering change requests for product markings, collaborating across teams to implement them effectively.

What You Are Already Great At:
• A degree in Engineering or Science (or equivalent qualification).
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in engineering/product compliance, including European water approvals and legislation review.
• Ability to read and interpret product design drawings and technical documentation, with strong materials knowledge.
• Confident knowledge of product compliance regulations and standards.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a solutions-focused approach.
• Strong communication skills, able to present and translate technical data into decision-ready insights.
• Effective interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate across teams.
• Passion for learning and adopting new technologies, with a proactive, independent mindset.
• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Desirable Qualifications/Experience:
• Experience working with European product compliance or water approvals processes.
• Familiarity with materials risk grouping and related compliance methodologies.
• Experience in managing compliance documentation, including Declarations of Conformity.

Our Core Competencies:

We value individuals who:
Cultivate Innovation – Stay curious and challenge the status quo.
Actively Learn – Embrace opportunities for growth and development.
Collaborate – Share knowledge and build strong cross-functional relationships.
Plan and Align – Drive purposeful, goal-oriented work.

As a Professional, You Also:
Drive Results – Deliver excellence and take ownership of your work.
Ensure Accountability – Maintain high standards and champion compliance.

Why Work With Us?

At Fortune Brands, we work together, think big, and learn fast. You’ll be empowered to make decisions, lead with creativity, and shape experiences that leave a lasting impression on our clients. Our values go beyond buzzwords—they guide everything we do.

The Benefits:
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays)
• Annual Incentive Plan Bonus Structure
• Health & Wellbeing Programme + Health Cash Plan
• Life Assurance & Pension Plan
• Flexible Working Model
• Employee Assistance Programme
• High Street Reward Scheme
• Eye Care Support for Frequent Screen Users
• Refer a Friend Programme
• Free Parking
• Employee Recognition Programme

Our Hiring Process:
• You’ll be contacted by our resourcing team for an initial conversation.
• You’ll be invited to our site for an engaging 1 or 2-stage interview process.
• We’ll give you full clarity on what to expect—so you can truly shine.
• If successful, we’ll confirm your start date and welcome you to your House of Rohl journey.
• If you haven’t heard from us within 4 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

If you are passionate about product compliance, excited by challenge, and ready to make a significant impact, we want to hear from you.

Apply now to shape the future of product compliance at Fortune Brands.

Fortune Brands Innovations are a US-based company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, that owns and develops a dynamic portfolio of brands for homes worldwide. Our specialist kitchen and bathroom division, Fortune Brands Water Innovations, is made up of leading luxury British brands, Shaws, Perrin & Rowe and Victoria + Albert, plus Riobel from Canada. We market these together under the House of Rohl name.

In addition, Aqualisa completes our portfolio with its market-leading digital showering technology.

Our brands are united by a belief in design, innovation and craftmanship, leading to beautiful and high-quality products.

With manufacturing sites throughout the UK, and a House of Rohl showroom at the Design Centre in London, we currently employ over 600 people, dedicated to delivering excellent products and service throughout our supply chain. A new multi-million pound state-of-the-art facility at the i54 Business Park in Wolverhampton will be completed later this year, generating exciting new opportunities across the business as we continue to grow.

Watch our short video to discover more about Perrin & Rowe, Shaws, Riobel and Victoria + Albert – the brands that make up the House of Rohl.

Es John Featherby – Finance Director EMEAA

Siobhan has worked for Fortune Brands since November 2021, joining as the EMEAA HR Business Partner and was appointed into the HR Director role from 2022. Combining strategic and operational HR expertise Siobhan likes to apply a fresh but practical approach to HR, she firmly believes in a People First mindset with the aim of to put the "human" back into Human Resources. Prior to joining Fortune Brands, Siobhan worked with Pilgrims UK, part of the JBS group, and spent 4 years in a senior HR leadership role, with a strong record in HR in both FMCG and manufacturing. Siobhan’s career started in a very different way though, she used to manage multi-site sales and operations for one of Europe's largest leisure operators. Siobhan is MCIPD qualified and is a Master NLP Practitioner.

Jim Platt – VP Water Innovations - EMEAA

Jim has worked for Fortune Brands since 2018. Jim is responsible for the integration and alignment of our sales teams across our four business entities, leading our cross-functional business improvement programmes. He is also currently developing our channel strategies and implementation programmes. Jim joined Fortune Brands having extensive experience across Sales and Marketing, especially Channel & Brand Management, and Account Management, Strategic Partnerships, Acquisitions, Business Integration, Change Management within the Sales Leadership arena. Jim has a Degree in Business & Finance (specialising in Marketing)

Siobhan Spruce – HR Director - EMEAA

James Smith – Marketing Director EMEAA

James has worked for Fortune Brands since 2019. Focussed on developing and growing all our brands across the EMEAA region, James has created an integrated marketing team working across all the brands. Launching the House of Rohl concept into EMEAA, he has also introduced a new brand to the offer in Riobel, opening a showroom in London and re-branding all marketing materials in 5 languages, and most recently integrated the Aqualisa brand into the team. This new structure has enabled the Company to develop a market-leading future vision for our brands, which guides us in the development of new products and future marketing support. James has a Degree from Aston University in Marketing & Economics, and prior to joining Fortune Brands, was the European Marketing Director at Sherwin Williams, managing brands like Ronseal and Valspar.

Okke Roosjen – Sales Director EMEAA International

Paul has worked for Fortune Brands since 2018. Paul leads all product development at Aqualisa. First starting work for Aqualisa in 1995, Paul worked on the development of the digital shower. He then moved within Baxi Group to take up the role of Group Technical Director and led a number of new product developments across the heating industry in Europe. Paul then joined Gtech to develop a ground-breaking cordless vacuum cleaner helping the company to grow from £5m turnover to £130m turnover in 5 years. Paul returned to Aqualisa at the end of 2018 to help turn the bathroom “Smart”. During his career he has won 3 Queens awards for innovations at Aqualisa, Baxi and Gtech. Paul is an Apprentice-trained engineer with a Master’s Degree in Engineering Design from Loughborough University.

Jonathon White - Sales Director

Our people are what make our business, and we truly care about creating a ‘Home for All’ where employees are empowered to make a difference, and able to bring their authentic selves to work. We are passionate about rewarding excellence and helping people to grow, both personally and professionally, during their time with us.

Our Values are integral to the way we work, we are:

Aligned in our work together
Agile in the face of change
Accountable to our promises
Action with integrity and transparency

Underpinning our values are a set of behaviours which is one of the measures we use to track the progress towards our goals, both as individuals and teams. Those who are successful within our business have a strong ability to drive results, collaborate with others, plan and align; and be an active learner.

As a growing business with a focus on excellence, we are always looking for fresh talent to join us on our journey; and alongside that, we are committed to nurturing and growing our people to achieve their potential with us. We take a flexible approach to development and progression opportunities, always preferring to promote from within, even if someone isn’t quite the finished article yet.

We believe that everyone plays their part in helping to shape our future; whether that is joining one of our Early Careers Programmes, being part of our Mentoring Programme, or exploring how your strengths can be used cross-functionally, we want you to be a part of our journey. Meet some of our team to understand more about how their careers have developed during their time with us.

We reward our teams not only for big headline results, but for how positively they contribute to the business. The benefits we offer may vary depending on what role you come onboard as, but all of our employees can enjoy:

  • An annual incentive bonus structure based on business and individual performance
  • 33 days holiday.
  • A Health and Wellbeing programme, including health cash plan, employee assistance programme, occupational health, mental health first aid, and monthly themed activity to support team wellbeing.
  • Occupational Pension Scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Employee Incentive Schemes, such as our ‘High5 Rewards’ and Refer a Friend bonuses
  • Free parking on all company sites
  • And as an employer who values you, you will be welcomed with open arms and supported to succeed.

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