Lead Product Safety Engineer

Dyson GmbH; Philippines; On-site; USD 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Product Safety Engineer to enhance their project safety team. The successful candidate will lead safety requirements across product development while ensuring compliance and promoting best practices. Ideal for someone with robust safety engineering experience looking to drive innovation in safety processes while fostering a safety culture.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate experience in safety or reliability roles is required.
• Proficient in strategies like FTA, HAZID, and safety assessments.
• Excellent communicator with a results-driven mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead defining and establishing safety requirements across projects.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure safety compliance.
• Manage multiple projects concurrently to meet safety standards.

Skills

Safety engineering

Safety assessments

Project management

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Degree in engineering or science

Job description

Dyson is a global technology enterprise. We solve the problems others choose to ignore, with surprising new inventions that defy convention and simply work better.

We push the boundaries of what others have defined as possible. Our approach starts with an engineering mindset and different thinking. Then we continuously refine our ideas, unwilling to compromise and driven by an obsession for finding a better way.

Dyson has a strong and influential Quality and Product Safety business function. The Product Safety team is categorized into two primary streams: one dedicated to managing and driving safety in new projects under development, and the other focused on addressing safety-related issues in the field. This role is to strengthen the project safety team by leading safety requirements agreement and overseeing their successful implementation throughout the product development process.

About the role

Reporting to the Product Safety Manager, this role involves bringing proven safety experience to Dyson for exciting new products in development. The primary accountabilities include:

1. Leading the process of defining and establishing safety requirements across Research, Design, and Development, and managing the evaluation of test results to demonstrate safety compliance.
2. Collaborating with RDD engineers to ensure adherence to safety deliverables throughout the project lifecycle up to manufacturing launch.
3. Implementing and validating mitigations for safety risks, ensuring their verification.
4. Including safety considerations in product development decisions and monitoring throughout the project.
5. Promoting best practices for safety risk assessments in development and manufacturing.
6. Identifying Critical To Safety (CTS) processes and advocating best practices.
7. Managing multiple projects concurrently, ensuring compliance with safety requirements.
8. Serving as the product safety representative and coordinating actions with the Product Safety Committee.
9. Designing and enhancing solutions proactively to address technical challenges.
10. Sharing safety knowledge and mentoring engineers in methodologies and standards.
11. Identifying technical risks and influencing engineering teams to resolve issues.

About you

• Degree in engineering or science, with postgraduate experience in safety or reliability roles.
• Robust background in safety engineering, with experience in safety cases and reports.
• Proficient in safety planning, FTA, HAZID/HAZOP, and safety assessments.
• Capable of reviewing work and maintaining formal safety documentation.
• Adaptable, results-driven, and capable of managing priorities across projects.
• Excellent communicator, able to simplify complex technical information.
• Collaborative, empathetic, and a team-oriented approach.
• Self-motivated, inspiring, and fostering a safety culture.

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status, or other diversity dimensions.