Requirements Compliance Lead

• A salary between €4,000 and €5,000 gross per month, plus 8% holiday allowance.
• Plenty of free time: 40 vacation days with full-time employment, with the option to buy or sell extra leave.
• A profit-sharing scheme with which you share in the success of Royal IHC.
• Flexible working: A home office allowance of €2.45 per day + a one-time €750 to set up your workplace
• Travel allowance of €0.21 per kilometer for the days you travel to the office.
• A solid pension accrual via PME.
• Room to grow: many internal growth opportunities and a training budget + access to our IHC Academy to stimulate your development.
• Vitality and energy: unlimited exercise in our own fitness room.
• Royal IHC takes care of things that you as an applicant would rather not deal with, but which are important. With disability insurance, partner pension, and the possibility to have extra healthcare costs reimbursed via our Social Fund.

As Requirements Compliance Lead, you are responsible for ensuring compliance with customer, contractual, technical, legal, quality, and security requirements within Defense projects. You ensure that the customer's (technical) specifications and contractual obligations are correctly interpreted, recorded, and consistently applied throughout the entire project.

In this role, you monitor the requirements baseline, traceability, and compliance status throughout the project. You ensure that it is demonstrably recorded how requirements are assigned, fulfilled, verified, and accepted. In this regard, the responsibility for realizing the requirements and creating objective evidence lies primarily with the executing departments, IHC entities, and suppliers. You ensure that this evidence is collected in a timely manner, assessed for alignment with the requirements, and made available for audits, customer acceptance, and Government Quality Assurance (GQA) activities.

You act as the central controller for requirements compliance: you oversee the requirements structure, monitor the status of compliance evidence, and signal gaps, risks, and dependencies in a timely manner. In a multidisciplinary and multi-entity environment, you coordinate the interpretation, assignment, and verification of requirements with various IHC entities and suppliers. Configuration management and change management are assigned to a dedicated role; you work closely with them to make the impact of changes on requirements and compliance evidence transparent.

You work closely with the QA Lead, the Configuration & Change Manager, and the executing project disciplines to ensure that requirements compliance, quality assurance, and formal acceptance align well. While the QA Lead is responsible for quality activities, inspections, testing, and audits in accordance with the Quality Plan, you focus on controlling the requirements baseline, acceptance criteria, verification methods, compliance status, and the delivery of the compliance evidence. Based on verification results and quality records, you assess whether the provided evidence sufficiently covers the relevant requirements and you support formal acceptance processes towards the customer and supervisory authorities.

• Managing and monitoring the requirements baseline and requirements traceability throughout the entire project lifecycle;
• Interpreting and translating customer, contractual, technical, quality, and safety requirements into a manageable requirements structure;
• Ensuring full traceability of requirements to design, production, verification, evidence, and acceptance;
• Coordinating requirements compliance across multiple IHC entities and suppliers;
• Collaborating with the dedicated Configuration & Change Manager to make the impact of changes on requirements, verification, and compliance evidence transparent;
• Defining and maintaining acceptance criteria and verification methods;
• Monitoring and reporting the compliance status, including progress, gaps, and risks in the available evidence, to project management, customers, and stakeholders;
• Collecting, structuring, and mirroring compliance evidence against the established requirements, without taking over the executing responsibility of departments or IHC entities;
• Supporting audits, customer acceptances, and Government Quality Assurance (GQA) activities;
• Collaborating with engineering, project management, quality assurance, configuration & change management, and supply chain partners to make compliance with all requirements demonstrable;
• Ensuring demonstrable compliance in accordance with AQAP and defense-related quality guidelines.