What are the responsibilities and job description for the Compliance Specialist position at Force America?
FORCE America provides systems and components to the on-and off-highway mobile markets. FORCE America is 100% employee-owned and has a strong presence in the market for over 70 years. We provide a competitive salary and excellent benefits.Essential Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary point of contact for customer compliance requests, including questionnaires, audits, and portal submissions (e.g. Assent or customer specific systems).
- Own and manage product compliance programs related to RoHS, PFAS, REACH, TSCA, Prop65, Conflict Minerals (CMRT), Country of Origin (COO), USMCA, and similar global regulations, ensuring timely and accurate responses to customer and regulatory inquiries.
- Collaborate with Human Resources to answer compliance requests related to Labor rights, Resilience, Data Protection and Privacy, Climate Impact, Pollution, Human Trafficking and Slavery, and Diversity.
- Manage Country of Origin and trade related compliance requests, ensuring accurate classification, origin statements, and documentation for customer and shipment requirements.
- Lead supplier data collection and validation, working upstream with manufacturers and vendors to obtain material declarations, origin statements, and regulatory disclosures.
- Maintain and continuously improve compliance documentation, templates, and standard responses, ensuring consistency, traceability, and audit readiness.
- Evaluate compliance risk and prioritize responses based on customer impact, regulatory exposure, and business relevance, applying practical judgment to high volume, low value requests.
- Track compliance metrics and trends, reporting status, gaps, and improvement opportunities to leadership and recommend process or tooling enhancements.
- Develop and deliver compliance training programs.
- Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and HR to align compliance with operational goals.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business or related subject matter or equivalent combination of years of experience and education.
- 5 years of experience in a Manufacturing or Distribution environment.
- Strong experience in Microsoft office including Outlook, Excel, Word.
- ERP Systems knowledge, Microsoft Dynamics AX preferred.
- Strong sense of urgency and ability to prioritize in order to meet the expectations of the customer.
- Detail oriented, to provide the highest level of quality.
- Strong oral, written, and presentation skills.
- Self-directed and able to prioritize responsibilities.
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential job functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Job hazards are typical of an office environment.
Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by and employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Work is primarily sedentary in nature. Some physical requirements include sitting, walking, standing, bending, squatting, twisting, lifting, grasping, etc.