Senior Systems Engineer – Regulatory Compliance & Engineering Process Implementation
Engagement: Consultancy / Contract
Initial focus: Regulatory compliance and engineering process implementation
Contract Length: 12 months
Start Date: ASAP
Work can be done remotely with occasional travel in NL and Abroad
The Role
I’m looking for an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to support the organization on a consultancy basis.
The initial assignment is to take the lead in translating new and existing regulatory and standards requirements into practical engineering processes and ensuring their implementation across the organization.
The primary areas of responsibility are:
- Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)
- EU Data Act
- EU AI Act
- ISO 25119
This is not a purely advisory or documentation-focused role. We need someone who can take ownership, create structure, align stakeholders and drive implementation through to completion.
The successful candidate will work across engineering teams, departments and business units, ensuring that regulatory obligations are understood, translated into concrete actions and embedded in the way we develop and maintains our products.
We are looking for someone who combines strong systems engineering experience with the personal drive and organizational capability to make things happen.
Key Responsibilities
1. Regulatory and Standards Implementation
- Take ownership of the implementation of the CRA, EU Data Act, EU AI Act and ISO 25119.
- Interpret regulatory and standards requirements and translate them into practical engineering processes, procedures and deliverables.
- Identify gaps between current practices and required compliance.
- Define implementation priorities, responsibilities, milestones and expected outcomes.
- Establish appropriate compliance evidence and documentation.
2. Engineering Process Development
- Translate regulatory obligations into practical processes that can be integrated into existing engineering workflows.
- Establish or improve processes covering requirements management, traceability, risk management, verification, validation and compliance evidence.
- Ensure processes are suitable for multidisciplinary engineering environments, including mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and software engineering.
- Avoid unnecessary bureaucracy and ensure that processes are practical and usable by engineering teams.
3. Organizational Implementation and Stakeholder Management
- Drive implementation across multiple engineering teams and business units.
- Establish clear ownership, responsibilities and decision-making structures.
- Align engineering, management and other relevant stakeholders.
- Challenge existing practices and address resistance where necessary.
- Follow up on agreed actions and ensure that implementation results in actual changes rather than recommendations alone.
- Report progress, risks, obstacles and decisions requiring management attention.
4. Governance and Continuous Follow-up
- Establish appropriate governance around regulatory compliance and engineering processes.
- Define responsibilities, reviews, deliverables and follow-up mechanisms.
- Monitor implementation progress and identify areas requiring additional attention.
- Ensure that compliance activities become part of normal engineering operations rather than isolated projects.
Required Technical Experience and Competencies
The candidate should be able to demonstrate experience in the following areas:
- Translating standards, regulations or audit requirements into practical engineering processes.
- Leading implementation across multiple teams or departments, rather than simply reviewing technical work or providing recommendations.
- Systems engineering and multidisciplinary product development.
- Requirements management and requirements traceability.
- Risk management and the establishment of appropriate verification and validation processes.
- Compliance documentation, evidence management and audit readiness.
- Establishing governance structures covering responsibilities, decisions, reviews, deliverables and follow-up.
- Improving engineering processes and ensuring their adoption within an organization.