About the Role
The Regulatory Compliance and Sustainability Program Manager will lead global product environmental compliance and sustainability programs within semiconductor manufacturing. This role ensures products, materials, chemicals, and processes meet environmental regulations and customer needs, while advancing sustainable product stewardship.
Responsibilities
- Monitor and ensure adherence to environmental laws, regulations, and industry standards.
- Lead compliance programs for RoHS, REACH, PFAS, California Proposition 65, TSCA, SCIP, WEEE, Conflict Minerals, and emerging regulations.
- Monitor global regulatory developments and assess business impacts.
- Ensure products comply with environmental and chemical regulations before market release.
- Manage substance compliance for raw materials, chemicals, consumables, packaging, and finished products.
- Evaluate exemptions, restrictions, and sunset dates; develop mitigation strategies.
- Lead and mentor a team of compliance professionals.
- Engage suppliers for material declarations and compliance documentation.
- Support customer audits, regulatory inquiries, and sustainability assessments.
- Drive sustainability initiatives including circular economy, waste reduction, and product stewardship.
- Establish internal controls, audits, and compliance governance processes.
- Lead compliance programs for RoHS (EU Restriction of Hazardous Substances) across products and components.
- Develop and maintain a global restricted substances list (RSL) and supplier compliance program.
- Lead material declaration programs (IPC-1752A, BOM-level FMDs).
- Ensure compliance with customer-specific environmental requirements (Sony Green, Apple, Intel, automotive OEMs).
- Partner with procurement to ensure supplier chemical disclosures and compliance.
- Collect, analyze, and report sustainability metrics to senior management.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science, or related field required; Master’s degree preferred.
- 8–10 years’ experience in chemical compliance, product stewardship, or environmental regulations.
- Deep expertise in RoHS, REACH, TSCA, PFAS, and Prop 65.
- Experience in semiconductor or electronics manufacturing strongly preferred.
- Certification such as Certified Product Steward (CPS) or similar is a plus.
- Strong understanding of chemical risk assessment and toxicology principles.
- Expertise in material declaration systems and compliance databases.
- Ability to interpret complex global regulations and translate into business requirements.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and supplier engagement.
- Data analysis and reporting skills.
- Comply, understand, and support corporate safety initiatives.
- Ability and willingness to abide by Company’s Code of Conduct.
- Valid driver’s license and ability to drive for extended periods of time.
- Occasional travel, some overnight, as required.
Skills
- RoHS
- REACH
- PFAS
- California Proposition 65
- TSCA
- SCIP
- WEEE
- Conflict Minerals
- Material declaration systems
- Compliance databases
- Chemical risk assessment
- Toxicology principles
- Data analysis
- Reporting
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Supplier engagement
- Circular economy
- Waste reduction
- Product stewardship
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8-10 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $135K-$152K
About the Company
- Mini-Circuits designs, manufactures and distributes integrated circuits, modules, and sub-systems for high-performance radio frequency (RF) and microwave applications.
- With design, sales, and manufacturing locations in over 30 countries, Mini-Circuits’ products are used in a range of wired and wireless communications applications.
- Our products are also used in detection, measurement, and imaging applications, including military communication, guidance, and electronic countermeasure systems, commercial, scientific, military land, sea, and aircraft; automotive systems, medical systems, and industrial test equipment.
- Mini-Circuits sells its products to over 20,000 customers globally through our direct sales force, applications engineering staff, and sales representatives, as well as through our extensive website.
Equal Opportunity
- Mini-Circuits is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, familial status, gender identity, gender dysphoria, pregnancy-related condition, and domestic violence victim status or protected class characteristic, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal or state law.
