Product Safety Lead

Camlin; Lisburn; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Camlin is seeking a strategic leader for its Digital Grid division to act as the central guardian of product safety and conformity. You will drive risk assessments, oversee global compliance, and orchestrate centralized product safety governance to boost efficiency and reduce risks across execution units.

You will collaborate with project teams to embed safety risk management into planning and delivery, ensure residual risks are documented, and stay ahead of industry regulations through audits

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product safety, functional safety, QA, or regulatory compliance.
• Experience in centralized governance within energy, utilities, or high-tech sectors.
• Experience with digital grid technologies, IoT, or smart infrastructure is a strong advantage.
• Proficiency in risk assessment frameworks and audit/quality governance methodologies.
• Ability to communicate findings to leadership and influence global teams.

Responsibilities

• Establish and ensure robust product safety processes across all Digital Grid segments.
• Review project artifacts for evidence of data-driven risk assessments and mitigations.
• Verify residual risks are documented with clear user-facing warnings.
• Monitor compliance with standards and emerging regulations.
• Audit and assess to identify improvement opportunities.
• Coordinate product safety owners across segments to manage risks.
• Collaborate with project teams to integrate safety risk management into planning.
• Foster continuous improvement of safety processes.
• Stay updated on regulatory changes to maintain compliance.

Skills

risk assessment

audit planning

data analytics

quality dashboards

communication

influence

Education

Electrical Engineering

Quality Management

Related discipline

Tools

FMEA

Quality management systems

Auditing tools

Job description

Camlin is a global technology leader that operates with the vision of bringing revolutionary products to life for a wide range of industries, including power and rail, and also has interests in a number of R&D projects in a variety of scientific sectors.

At Camlin we believe in high quality engineering and design, allowing us to develop market leading products and services. In short, we love creating value for our customers by solving difficult problems. As of now, Camlin operates in over 20 countries worldwide.

How You’ll Make an Impact

In this strategic role within our Digital Grid division, you'll serve as the central guardian of product safety and product conformity. By leading rigorous risk assessments, driving global compliance, and orchestrating centralized oversight of Product Safety processes, you'll ensure consistent, process-driven execution across all execution units—directly boosting operational efficiency, reducing risks at scale, and accelerating high-impact delivery.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Ensure robust product safety processes are established and consistently followed by all Digital Grid segments for all products launched to market.
• Conduct independent reviews of project artifacts to verify evidence of comprehensive, data-driven risk assessments, hazard identification, and mitigation implementation across design, development, and deployment phases.
• Validate that residual risks are properly documented and communicated through clear, user-centered manuals, warnings, and other resources.
• Ensure that all processes are followed rigorously and that product safety requirements are consistently met.
• Monitor compliance with defined standards and emerging regulations, ensuring that all products adhere to safety and quality requirements.
• Conduct regular audits and assessments to verify compliance and identify areas for improvement.
• Orchestrate product safety responsible persons from segments to make sure that all product safety risks are identified, assessed managed, documented and mitigated effectively.
• Collaborate with project teams to integrate product safety risk management strategies and product safety aspects into project planning and execution.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for enhancing product safety processes and compliance measures.
• Stay updated on industry best practices and regulatory changes to ensure ongoing compliance and product safety and conformity.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Electrical Engineering, Quality Management, or a closely related discipline.
• Certifications in risk management, quality standards or process governance (e.g., Six Sigma Black Belt) are desirable.
• 5+ years of hands‑on expertise in product safety, functional safety, quality assurance, or regulatory compliance, with demonstrated success in centralized governance or product safety or quality management within the energy, utilities, or high‑tech sectors.
• Experience with digital grid technologies, IoT-enabled devices, or smart infrastructure is a strong advantage.
• Deep proficiency in risk assessment frameworks, compliance auditing tools, quality management systems and QMiP/process governance methodologies; expertise in audit planning, FMEA, data analytics, and digital quality dashboards for cross‑unit performance tracking.
• Exceptional communication and influence skills to align global teams, present findings to leadership, a meticulous, analytical mindset with advanced problem‑solving capabilities and a proven ability to enforce standards without compromising.

Our Values

• We work together
• We believe in people
• We won’t accept the ‘way it has always been done’
• We listen to learn
• We’re trying to do the right thing

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Individuals seeking employment at Camlin are considered without regards to race, colour, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital states, ancestry, physical or mental disability, gender identity or sexual orientation.