Compliance Jobs in Pennsylvania
Compliance jobs in Pennsylvania are consistently active, with strong demand in financial services, healthcare, and energy sectors, and openings at every level from entry-level analyst through senior director and chief compliance officer. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh drive the largest share of hiring, with Harrisburg adding meaningful volume in government-adjacent and insurance compliance, and employers such as Comcast, UPMC, and Lincoln Financial Group representing the kind of established, ongoing demand that defines this market. The most sought-after specialties are regulatory compliance, healthcare compliance, and financial compliance with AML and BSA focus. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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About Johnson Controls
Johnson Controls is a global leader in smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings. Our technologies and services help improve building performance and create safe, comfortable, and efficient environments. In this role, you will contribute directly to the safety, reliability, and market access of products used by customers around the world.
Overview
Johnson Controls is seeking a Regulatory Engineer to support product safety, regulatory compliance, and agency certification activities for our chiller products. This role is designed for an engineer with 2 to 4 years of relevant experience who is ready to apply engineering fundamentals while developing deeper expertise in product compliance and certification.
Working with senior regulatory engineers, product engineers, manufacturing teams, and external certification bodies, you will support compliance activities across the product lifecycle, from requirements identification and design review through testing, documentation, production release, and sustaining support. You will be expected to manage defined work assignments independently, raise risks promptly, and contribute to cross-regional compliance projects.
Johnson Controls delivers products to markets worldwide. This role primarily supports North American requirements while collaborating with regulatory counterparts in the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific when global standards or certification needs overlap.
This role is preferred to sit in New Freedom, PA but is open to remote candidates.
Key Responsibilities
- Support regulatory compliance planning and execution for new product introduction and sustaining engineering projects.
- Review product requirements, drawings, bills of material, technical specifications, and design changes for compliance implications.
- Interpret and apply applicable safety standards, directives, codes, and regulations with guidance from senior regulatory staff.
- Coordinate assigned portions of agency certification projects, including submission packages, product samples, test scheduling, issue tracking, and closure documentation.
- Assist with product safety risk assessments, hazard analyses, design reviews, and compliance checklists.
- Work with internal laboratories and external agencies such as UL and CSA Group to support testing and resolve findings.
- Prepare, organize, and maintain technical files, declarations, certificates, test reports, and other compliance records.
- Support investigation and resolution of compliance issues identified during development, testing, manufacturing, audits, or field support.
- Monitor relevant standards and regulatory changes, summarize potential product impacts, and escalate significant changes to senior regulatory engineers.
- Build effective working relationships with product engineering, component engineering, manufacturing, quality, sourcing, and regional compliance teams.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of compliance tools, templates, work instructions, and document-control practices.
- Participate in selected industry or standards meetings as assigned and provide clear summaries of actions and implications.
Regional Compliance Requirements
The Regulatory Engineer will develop working knowledge of applicable requirements, including:
- North America: applicable UL and CSA product safety standards, UL 60335-2-40, FCC Part 15, ICES-003, EPA SNAP, U.S. Department of Energy requirements, and relevant ASHRAE and AHRI standards.
- Global: IEC and ISO standards and the IECEE CB Scheme.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, controls, systems, or a related engineering discipline.
- 2 to 4 years of engineering experience in product development, product safety, regulatory compliance, certification testing, quality, or a related technical field.
- Foundational knowledge of engineering drawings, product specifications, laboratory testing, and technical documentation.
- Ability to read and apply technical standards and translate requirements into clear engineering actions.
- Experience supporting multiple assignments, tracking actions, and meeting project schedules.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document test results, compliance decisions, and open issues clearly.
- Analytical problem-solving skills and the ability to investigate failures or nonconformities with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to work independently on defined tasks while seeking guidance when requirements, risk, or precedent are unclear.
- Ability to travel up to 25% for project support, factory visits, laboratory testing, and codes and standards meetings.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with HVAC, refrigeration, chillers, building systems, controls, or related electromechanical products.
- Exposure to UL, CSA, IEC, CE or CB Scheme certification processes.
- Experience working with a nationally recognized testing laboratory or other third-party certification body.
- Familiarity with product risk assessment, hazard analysis, failure investigation, or design verification methods.
- Working knowledge of ISO 9001 quality management systems and document-control practices.
- Basic understanding of software, firmware, electrical controls, or electromagnetic compatibility as they relate to product compliance.
- Engineer-in-Training certification or relevant product safety or compliance training.
Success in This Role
- Completes assigned compliance deliverables accurately and on schedule.
- Identifies potential certification or regulatory risks early and communicates them clearly.
- Maintains complete, traceable, and audit-ready technical documentation.
- Builds increasing independence and technical depth in applicable chiller standards and certification processes.
- Collaborates effectively across engineering, manufacturing, quality, sourcing, and external agencies.
HIRING SALARY RANGE: $90,000 - $125,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.) This position includes a competitive benefits package. The posted salary range reflects the target compensation for this role. However, we recognize that exceptional candidates may bring unique skills and experiences that exceed the typical profile. If you believe your background warrants consideration beyond the stated range, we encourage you to apply. To support an efficient and fair hiring process, we may use technology assisted tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to help identify and evaluate candidates. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by human reviewers. For details, please visit the About Us tab on the Johnson Controls Careers site at https://jobs.johnsoncontrols.com/about-us
About Johnson Controls
Johnson Controls is a global leader in smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings. Our technologies and services help improve building performance and create safe, comfortable, and efficient environments. In this role, you will contribute directly to the safety, reliability, and market access of products used by customers around the world.
Overview
Johnson Controls is seeking a Regulatory Engineer to support product safety, regulatory compliance, and agency certification activities for our chiller products. This role is designed for an engineer with 2 to 4 years of relevant experience who is ready to apply engineering fundamentals while developing deeper expertise in product compliance and certification.
Working with senior regulatory engineers, product engineers, manufacturing teams, and external certification bodies, you will support compliance activities across the product lifecycle, from requirements identification and design review through testing, documentation, production release, and sustaining support. You will be expected to manage defined work assignments independently, raise risks promptly, and contribute to cross-regional compliance projects.
Johnson Controls delivers products to markets worldwide. This role primarily supports North American requirements while collaborating with regulatory counterparts in the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific when global standards or certification needs overlap.
This role is preferred to sit in New Freedom, PA but is open to remote candidates.
Key Responsibilities
- Support regulatory compliance planning and execution for new product introduction and sustaining engineering projects.
- Review product requirements, drawings, bills of material, technical specifications, and design changes for compliance implications.
- Interpret and apply applicable safety standards, directives, codes, and regulations with guidance from senior regulatory staff.
- Coordinate assigned portions of agency certification projects, including submission packages, product samples, test scheduling, issue tracking, and closure documentation.
- Assist with product safety risk assessments, hazard analyses, design reviews, and compliance checklists.
- Work with internal laboratories and external agencies such as UL and CSA Group to support testing and resolve findings.
- Prepare, organize, and maintain technical files, declarations, certificates, test reports, and other compliance records.
- Support investigation and resolution of compliance issues identified during development, testing, manufacturing, audits, or field support.
- Monitor relevant standards and regulatory changes, summarize potential product impacts, and escalate significant changes to senior regulatory engineers.
- Build effective working relationships with product engineering, component engineering, manufacturing, quality, sourcing, and regional compliance teams.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of compliance tools, templates, work instructions, and document-control practices.
- Participate in selected industry or standards meetings as assigned and provide clear summaries of actions and implications.
Regional Compliance Requirements
The Regulatory Engineer will develop working knowledge of applicable requirements, including:
- North America: applicable UL and CSA product safety standards, UL 60335-2-40, FCC Part 15, ICES-003, EPA SNAP, U.S. Department of Energy requirements, and relevant ASHRAE and AHRI standards.
- Global: IEC and ISO standards and the IECEE CB Scheme.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, controls, systems, or a related engineering discipline.
- 2 to 4 years of engineering experience in product development, product safety, regulatory compliance, certification testing, quality, or a related technical field.
- Foundational knowledge of engineering drawings, product specifications, laboratory testing, and technical documentation.
- Ability to read and apply technical standards and translate requirements into clear engineering actions.
- Experience supporting multiple assignments, tracking actions, and meeting project schedules.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document test results, compliance decisions, and open issues clearly.
- Analytical problem-solving skills and the ability to investigate failures or nonconformities with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to work independently on defined tasks while seeking guidance when requirements, risk, or precedent are unclear.
- Ability to travel up to 25% for project support, factory visits, laboratory testing, and codes and standards meetings.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with HVAC, refrigeration, chillers, building systems, controls, or related electromechanical products.
- Exposure to UL, CSA, IEC, CE or CB Scheme certification processes.
- Experience working with a nationally recognized testing laboratory or other third-party certification body.
- Familiarity with product risk assessment, hazard analysis, failure investigation, or design verification methods.
- Working knowledge of ISO 9001 quality management systems and document-control practices.
- Basic understanding of software, firmware, electrical controls, or electromagnetic compatibility as they relate to product compliance.
- Engineer-in-Training certification or relevant product safety or compliance training.
Success in This Role
- Completes assigned compliance deliverables accurately and on schedule.
- Identifies potential certification or regulatory risks early and communicates them clearly.
- Maintains complete, traceable, and audit-ready technical documentation.
- Builds increasing independence and technical depth in applicable chiller standards and certification processes.
- Collaborates effectively across engineering, manufacturing, quality, sourcing, and external agencies.
HIRING SALARY RANGE: $90,000 - $125,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.) This position includes a competitive benefits package. The posted salary range reflects the target compensation for this role. However, we recognize that exceptional candidates may bring unique skills and experiences that exceed the typical profile. If you believe your background warrants consideration beyond the stated range, we encourage you to apply. To support an efficient and fair hiring process, we may use technology assisted tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to help identify and evaluate candidates. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by human reviewers. For details, please visit the About Us tab on the Johnson Controls Careers site at https://jobs.johnsoncontrols.com/about-us
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- Chemicals & Materials
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What Pennsylvania Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in compliance jobs across Pennsylvania.
- Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP) credential recognized by Pennsylvania employers
- Bachelor's degree in law, finance, business administration, or a related field
- Demonstrated knowledge of Pennsylvania state regulations and relevant federal regulatory frameworks
- Experience interpreting and applying industry-specific compliance requirements such as HIPAA or SEC rules
- Strong written communication skills for drafting policies, reports, and regulatory correspondence
- Proficiency with compliance management software and audit documentation tools
Compliance Jobs in Pennsylvania: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a compliance in Pennsylvania?
Most compliance roles in Pennsylvania require a bachelor's degree in a field such as finance, law, business, or healthcare administration, followed by relevant work experience in a regulated industry. There is no single Pennsylvania state license for compliance generalists, but employers strongly prefer candidates who hold recognized credentials such as the Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional designation. Specializations like healthcare compliance often expect familiarity with Pennsylvania Department of Health requirements.
How much do compliances make in Pennsylvania?
Compliances in Pennsylvania earn a median of about $85,580 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $49,910 for the lowest 10% to over $130,990 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire compliances in Pennsylvania?
Employers hiring compliances in Pennsylvania right now include Sanofi, Transamerica, and Penn Medicine, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Pennsylvania's concentration of major financial institutions, large hospital networks, and regulated energy companies means compliance hiring here is more consistent and varied than in many other states.
Which Pennsylvania cities have the most compliance jobs?
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg are the cities with the most compliance openings in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia leads because of its dense concentration of financial services firms, law firms, and large health systems, while Pittsburgh's growth in healthcare and technology compliance drives its volume, and Harrisburg attracts openings tied to state government oversight, insurance regulation, and government contractors operating near the capital.
Are there remote compliance jobs in Pennsylvania?
Yes, and more than most fields. Compliance is predominantly desk-based and document-driven, which makes it well suited to remote and hybrid arrangements. About 73% of compliance openings tied to Pennsylvania are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how broadly employers have accepted distributed compliance teams. Roles focused on policy review, monitoring, and reporting tend to be the most consistently remote.
How can I get hired as a compliance in Pennsylvania with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a compliance analyst or compliance coordinator role, which large Pennsylvania employers in financial services and healthcare regularly fill with candidates coming from adjacent positions such as paralegal, internal audit associate, or healthcare billing specialist. UPMC and major Philadelphia-area health systems run structured rotational or associate programs that accept candidates without direct compliance experience. Earning a foundational credential such as the Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional, even as a candidate, signals commitment and gives your application a clear edge over uncredentialed applicants.
Where can I find and apply to compliance jobs in Pennsylvania?
You can find and apply to compliance jobs in Pennsylvania on Migrate Mate, which lists current Pennsylvania openings across industries and experience levels. Search the listings, find roles that match your background and target location, and apply directly to the ones that fit.
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