Manufacturing Process Engineer

Optimal Inc.; Warren (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site workplace

Job summary

Optimal Solution Company is seeking a Risk Engineer Lead to drive risk-reduction initiatives across engineering and operations. You will collaborate with manufacturing, facilities, and suppliers to define problems, perform hazard analyses, and implement robust controls while ensuring sustainment through training and documentation.

Responsibilities include leading cross-functional projects, translating observations and data into practical risk-reduction solutions, and guiding design reviews and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related discipline.
• 2–10 years of experience in safety, engineering, manufacturing, facilities, or operations.
• Lead hazard analyses, risk assessments, and design reviews.
• Translate field observations and data into practical risk-reduction solutions.
• Willingness to work onsite visiting operating areas and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Lead risk-reduction projects from problem definition through pilot, implementation, validation, and sustainment.
• Partner with manufacturing, facilities, engineering, site safety, and other stakeholders to reduce risk.
• Apply design-in safety principles during planning, risk assessment, and commissioning.
• Facilitate hazard analyses and document hazards, controls, and corrective actions.
• Translate findings into standards, specifications, and design improvements.
• Track risks and actions to closure with clear options and recommendations.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to improve risk identification and decision quality.
• Create documentation and adoption plans to support sustainment.

Skills

Risk-reduction leadership

Hazard analyses

Cross-functional collaboration

Translate data into controls

Onsite work readiness

Risk engineer project lead

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related discipline

Job description

Job Description

• Lead risk-reduction projects from problem definition and prioritization through pilot, implementation, validation, and sustainment.
• Partner with manufacturing, facilities, engineering, site safety, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, skilled trades, suppliers, and other stakeholders to identify and reduce risk.
• Apply design-in safety principles during planning, risk assessment, design review, commissioning, start-up, and final-location verification.
• Facilitate hazard analyses and risk assessments; document hazards, required controls, residual risk, and corrective actions.
• Translate risk findings, field observations, incident learnings, user feedback, and operational data into controls, standard work, specifications, and upstream design improvements.
• Track risks, dependencies, decisions, and corrective actions to closure; escalates unresolved high-risk issues with clear options and recommendations.
• Evaluate emerging capabilities-including AI, computer vision, automation, analytics, wearables, and low-code tools-to improve risk identification, control effectiveness, or decision quality.
• Create concise technical documentation, leadership updates, training materials, and adoption plans that support sustainment.

Skills Required

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, occupational safety, industrial hygiene, environmental health, manufacturing, or a related technical discipline; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• Experience leading projects, continuous-improvement efforts, or technical implementations in safety, engineering, manufacturing, facilities, or operations.
• Ability to convert ambiguous problems into structured plans, priorities, decisions, and implementable outcomes.
• Experience with risk assessments, hazard analyses, design reviews, corrective-action plans, or control verification.
• Strong analytical, written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risk to operators, engineers, suppliers, and leadership.
• Willingness to work onsite and visit operating areas, project locations, and suppliers as required.
• Risk engineer project lead

Education/Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering or related discipline.
• 2-10 years of experience required.

Must Haves

• Risk assessment experience - Ability to lead hazard analyses, evaluate high-consequence risks, identify effective engineering controls, and verify that controls are implemented and sustained.
• Technical project leadership - Experience managing cross-functional safety or engineering projects from problem definition and prioritization through pilot, implementation, validation, and standardization
• Technical Fluency and Application - Ability to translate field observations, incident learnings, operational data, and emerging technologies into practical low code risk-reduction solutions (i.e. AI, computer vision, automation, and analytics).