Product Safety and Compliance Engineer

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JOB PURPOSE:
The Product Safety and Compliance Engineer is responsible for leading aspects of product safety and regulatory compliance to all brands for Sandvik's Batteries and Chargers for Hybrid & Electric operated Loaders and Trucks. The ideal candidate will collaborate with product design, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, and sourcing and continuous improvement management to assure the highest quality product designs while maintaining safety and regulatory compliance. The work will be predominantly intellectual and varied, not routine in nature. The employee will need to apply their diverse technical background and strong hazard-based engineering principles to prevent and resolve product compliance or safety-related issues as they arise.
Education Level:
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related four-year degree preferred
Master's degree preferred
Certification or specialized training in regulatory or product safety evaluation preferred
Job Experience:
Minimum 5 years of experience in Engineering, Certification, Compliance, or similar discipline
Experience in high voltage battery systems and/or electric vehicle driveline seen as benefit
Proven track record for driving continuous improvements and safety initiatives
Skills/Special Training Required to Effectively Perform the Job:
Product development and manufacturing activities such as validation and verification procedures
Knowledge and application of design of experiments, statistical process control, process capability evaluation, corrective and preventive action processes, FMEA and other risk assessment techniques
Ability to understand and interpret regulations and standards (CE, IEC, ISO, EN, etc.)
Visionary, aware of external benchmarks and can lead an organization to new levels of quality
Background in dealing with regulatory requirements, standards and authorities
Analyze issues and define solutions
Responsibilities:
Participate in new product development to ensure that developed products comply with the safety requirements in each intended market area
Gather and summarize information about safety regulations from market areas
Give guidance for engineering to interpret safety regulations and standards, and derive design requirements and constraints from those regulations and standards
Lead and document risk assessments, compliance checks, gap analyses and FMEAs
Update current products' risk assessments when needed and/or agreed
Ensure that safety tasks and related decisions are followed through and documented thoroughly
Review manuals to ensure remaining risks are informed in the manuals and that manuals comply with requirements
Lead analyses related to functional safety and performed safety function validations
Participate in engineering changes to ensure product safety issues are identified and handled
Actively monitor industry and regulatory agencies for emerging or changing standards and regulatory requirements with potential for product impact or business risk
Analyze global regulations and applicable standards and drive creation of formal External Requirements Plans in support of Research and Development
Product safety incident management
Invite and lead the incident handling meetings
Lead and follow the required actions
Ensures the case handling is thoroughly documented
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Careers with Sandvik:
Sandvik offers a career opportunity with an international company that develops and creates cutting edge electric and hybrid technology. You will be part of a fast-growing establishment of highly motivated people who have a strong will to succeed. With us, you have substantial opportunities for personal development, and will be working with highly skilled colleagues. Sandvik provides a competitive compensation and benefit package, including 401(k), Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance plans, paid vacation and 11 paid holidays.
EEO:
Sandvik is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Any applicant who, because of a disability, needs accommodation or assistance in completing an application or at any time during the application process should contact Human Resources at ****. Sandvik also provides reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities consistent with its obligations under the law.
Deadline:
Not set
Job-ID:
R0054901

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