Safety Engineer, Senior Job Description
Safety engineer, senior
provides program administration for ULS Safety Incident reporting, including necessary investigations, root cause analysis (RCA), and Corrective Action/Preventive Action (CAPA) compliance and closure.
Safety Engineer, Senior Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Customer requirements for machinery safety approvals
The requirements of independent approval bodies, all without impeding their ability to deliver efficient, timely and cost-effective control solutions to customers
Be the Subject Matter Expert at a senior technical level in planning and delivering functional safety solutions including both software/firmware and hardware
Knowledge of and ability to implement products to international standards for safety related control systems, IEC 62061, IEC 61508 or a related standard in Aero, Rail, Defence, Medical, Nuclear etc
Create, operate and maintain relevant design processes and documentation systems
Work cooperatively with worldwide engineering groups with varying levels of expertise and diverse cultures
Under general direction, works on complex projects/programs and defines objectives for developing, implementing, and maintaining programs, systems and procedures necessary to ensure the overall safety and health of employees and thee campus community
Evaluates operational needs and industry EH&S standards to construct and launch programs that complement the Institute's operational framework and mission
Applies specialized technical knowledge of processes, procedures, and equipment used in monitoring and auditing EH&S conditions
Performs complex investigative/technical work in a wide range of EH&S issues to effect and maintain institute compliance with all internal and external EH&S protocols and requirements
Safety Engineer, Senior Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Safety Engineer, Senior
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CSP, ISO, ODA, ETL, UL, CSA, API, P.E, FAA, WSQ
Education for Safety Engineer, Senior
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the safety engineer, senior job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Science, Technical, Computer Science, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Education, Health, Chemistry, Mathematics
Skills for Safety Engineer, Senior
Desired skills for safety engineer, senior include:
Incident investigations and root cause analysis and corrective actions implementation
Range safety and environmental systems and processes
Supporting the full program life cycle system safety products and analysis
MIL-STD-882
NAVSEAINST 5100.12B
NSS clients organizational structure
Operating systems and compiler technology
ARP 4754
Applicable laws
Desired experience for safety engineer, senior includes:
Manages by objectives
Management of system requirements
Conducting FMEA/FMECA
Safety assurance planning & Reporting
Management of Project Hazard Logs and Safety Risk Registers
Bachelors of Science degree in Engineering (Systems, Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, ) or related technical field from an ABET accredited institution
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Safety Engineer, Senior Job Description
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of safety engineer, senior. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for safety engineer, senior
- Performs technical and administrative duties in general safety, industrial hygiene, research safety (biological and chemical safety), research compliance, emergency preparedness and response, environmental and waste management
- Develops and/or delivers employee training, emergency preparedness and quality assurance programs
- Advises operations in the construction of work areas to minimize hazards and risk of pathogen exposure
- Provides guidance to less experienced personnel working with EH&S matters
- Ensures that safety training, emergency preparedness, and loss control programs comply with external standards in content and annual scheduling
- Maintains accountability of assigned areas and provides functional direction and/or training in application of occupational health, compliance and safety programs
- Serves as first responder to Institute incidents
- Keep current with EH&S practitioners and/or organizations to ensure regulatory interpretation, technical advice, Institute policies are in compliance
- Carry out ARM, Safety and related types of technical analysis for our clients and document your outputs in high quality reports
- Support the development of winning bids
Qualifications for safety engineer, senior
- Working knowledge of academic compliance committees (IBC, IACUC), NIH guidelines for work with recombinant DNA, DEA controlled substances licensing requirements
- PhD degree, with 3 years of professional experience in a comprehensive environmental, health and safety program, preferably in a university setting
- Contribute to technical excellence, innovation and knowledge sharing
- Deliver your work to time, quality and budget targets
- Work effectively in teams and also standalone
- Demonstrate commitment to improve your capability and professional credentials
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a safety engineer, senior. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for safety engineer, senior
- Conduct / participate in audits of process safety activities, including annual Self-Assessment Tool (SAT) and RC 14001 Audits
- Conduct training on process safety related topics
- Generate periodic reports on the status of various process safety-related activities
- Act as the primary system safety engineering interface to the customer for new business opportunities and
- Generate the Hazard and Risk analysis for Access and Body control Units
- Generate the system – and requirement specifications
- Analyze and link customer requirements specifications to Conti specifications
- Generate the Safety concept, safety requirements and all supporting documents as required by the functional safety standard ISO 26262
- Align the safety requirements with other requirements and support actively a seamless integration of safety related items into the project – targeting a cost-efficient solution
- Clarify and negotiate all open items related to functional safety and specifications with customer
Qualifications for safety engineer, senior
- Experience with automotive electronics and communication protocols (FlexRay and CAN) (P)
- Experience in C programming language (P)
- Experience with 8/16/32-bit micro-controllers (P)
- Experience with automotive diagnostic tools like CanOE, CanAPE (P)
- Experience in automotive embedded controller systems (P)
- Familiarity with HIL testing for automotive applications (P)
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Safety Engineer, Senior Job Description
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Our growing company is hiring for a safety engineer, senior. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for safety engineer, senior
- Perform system integration testing for safety related items
- Cooperate with in-house or external safety experts for release of the safety case
- Execute complex projects individually or in a team for projects that require a high level of specialized know-how and broad experience
- Manage full range of projects and independently interact with stakeholders/customers
- Participate in the development of the team’s area of expertise, and initiate and participate in research projects
- Actively broaden your own knowledge in your field of expertise and expand your repertoire of methods
- Support know-how transfer within the team
- Assume a radar function by observing and evaluating new methods, market trends and the activities of competitors (patents, literature)
- Potentially supervise other professionals and lab technicians and act as a functional lead of a virtual team
- Comply with EHS rules
Qualifications for safety engineer, senior
- Extensive knowledge of assembly language and C/C++
- Experience of RTL design and debug
- Experience of developing and delivering software BIST code, ideally for CPU designs
- Experience of verification testing using assembler
- Experience of fault coverage, fault simulation and DFT
- Experience of ISO26262 and/or IEC61508 functional safety standards and associated certification
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Safety Engineer, Senior Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of safety engineer, senior. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for safety engineer, senior
- Grow your network in the external R&D community and represent your area of expertise in academic conferences (including scientific presentations)
- Lead plant in preventing injuries and achieving safety objectives
- Develop and maintain plant safety policies and safety manual
- Represent Management and take ownership of the B.E.S.T
- Develops site safety procedures (SWPP) and programs with a management systems focus
- Provides support for Process Safety Management (PSM) Risk Management Planning (RMP) including participation in HAZOP studies, process design reviews, PSSRs
- Develops and implements meaningful and insightful analysis of safety related key performance metrics
- Defend Safety Case argumentations in front of internal (QS, Safety Assessor) and external (ISA) assessors
- Ensuring safety risk management procedures are clearly defined and implemented to fulfill regulatory and business requirements for all site products and product lines
- Identifying areas for continuous improvement of risk management procedures as required
Qualifications for safety engineer, senior
- Initiative, proactive, good personality and a team player
- Vehicle domain knowledge, understanding of safety standards like IEC 61508, ISO 26262, Machinery Directives
- Bachelor or Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or similar studies
- At least 5 years working experience in automotive industry or embedded system development
- At least 2 relevant projects completed as Requirement-, SW- or Test Engineer
- Good understanding of vehicle automotive E/E system with good electrical and electronic background
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Safety Engineer, Senior Job Description
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Our company is looking to fill the role of safety engineer, senior. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for safety engineer, senior
- Ensuring product risk management documentation within device design history files is maintained with good documentation practices and in compliance with quality system for manufactured, refurbished and distributed products
- Acting as safety risk management subject matter expert, provides safety risk management and engineering direction, training, and guidance to staff and applicable departments for assigned business unit(s)
- Working with risk management and quality teams to ensure consistency and that safety risk management procedures are followed
- Facilitating the product risk management teams in development and completion of risk assessments to evaluate product safety levels and determine effective methods for handling risk exposure, including identifying necessary risk mitigations such as design features, device labeling , as necessary
- Working with the various engineering teams to provide support and direction in the use of safety risk management tools including hazard analysis, failure mode effect analysis (FMEA), fault tree analysis (FTA), risk benefit analysis
- Analyzing and reporting on trends and other areas related to risk management quality data and statistical analysis, on a periodic basis
- Providing guidance and direction on the effective use of analytical tools to assess product failure investigations based on customer complaint or product usage data, device reliability failures and product misuse
- Providing safety risk management expertise in reviewing device-related adverse event investigations to facilitate development of solutions to minimize patient impacts
- Working with medical personnel on the creation of appropriate harm/hazard analysis/health hazard assessment for issues potentially impacting patient outcomes
- Support the development and documentation of requirements appropriate for the BMD SoS and each component project in co-ordination with the BMD PO&S
Qualifications for safety engineer, senior
- Basic know-how on requirement management tools
- Leadership skills to guide the project team in regards to functional safety
- Ability to work in international teams and with international customers
- Coordinate and conduct regular safety inspection, track and ensure inspection findings are closed as schedule
- Give guidance in formal reviews, application and interpretation of checklists required by ISO 26262
- MSc/PhD in safety related area