Principal I/II Sustaining Engineer

MSA - The Safety Company; Cranberry Township (Butler County); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

MSA Safety is seeking a Regional Leader engineer to advance sustaining engineering activities for Industrial PPE products. You will lead cross-functional reviews, align priorities with global engineering managers, and drive improvements across disciplines to meet critical deadlines.

The role requires ABET-accredited engineering degree and 7–9 years of relevant experience, with potential for higher levels. You will collaborate with marketing, sales, production, and quality teams to deliver robust

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (ABET accredited) required.
• Advanced technical degree and continuing education expected.
• Experience in sustaining engineering and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Field sustaining engineering requests for Industrial PPE products and establish due dates with stakeholders.
• Lead regular meetings with Global Engineering Managers to discuss Sustaining activities and priorities.
• Participate in cross-functional reviews with marketing, sales, production and quality; track launch dates.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering (ABET)

Advanced technical degree

Continuing education

Tools

Jira

Job description

Overview

Are you someone who is passionate, motivated, and driven to make a difference? If so, MSA Safety is the perfect fit for your career.

Overview

Are you someone who is passionate, motivated, and driven to make a difference? If so, MSA Safety is the perfect fit for your career.

At MSA, SAFETY is who we are AND it is what we do. We are a purpose-driven company committed to deploying innovation and technology to deliver on our Mission to help protect people and assets all around the world. We continue to be relentless in our pursuit of solving our customers greatest problems so they can go home safe each and every day.

Are you in? Read on for more details about this particular role.

Responsibilities

Field all sustaining engineering requests for Industrial PPE Products.

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to understand and clarify the request’s business case; providing timely feedback on disposition them.
• For high priority issues, establish due dates with stakeholders and product leadership.

Conduct regular meetings with Global Engineering Managers and their team to discuss Sustaining Engineering activities.

• Establish priorities, assign resources.
• For active requests, monitor progress, supporting individual contributors to ensure completion of requests, meeting critical expectations of stakeholders while balancing team workload.

Participate in regular meetings with business leaders from marketing, sales, production and quality.

• Report out top priority sustaining engineering projects during cross functional reviews.
• Track anticipated launch dates for high priority tickets.

Participate in product evaluations.

• Provide feedback through the RFEA process.

Facilitate the movement of the Sustaining Engineering efforts through indirect engineering disciplines which include the Material Science, Verification & Validation, and Compliance & Documentation.

• Provide clear direction on their assignments and help prioritize their efforts. Assign due dates via Jira RFEA Service Desk for Tier 1 tickets.

As a Regional Leader, identify opportunities for process improvements pertaining to Sustaining or other Engineering activities. Align and discuss those with the NNA Sustaining Engineering Coordinator.

• Develop implementation strategies to push these improvements forward.

Qualifications

This role is posted at two levels based on experience and education:

Level: Principal I Engineer

Education Required

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related appropriate discipline required, preferably from an ABET accredited program.
• Advanced technical degree or coursework expected.
• Continuing education expected.

Experience Required

• 7 years relevant experience.
• MS degree may be substituted for up to 2 years of relevant experience.
• PhD may be substituted for up to 4 years of equivalent experience.

Level: Principal II Engineer

Education Required

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related appropriate discipline required, preferably from an ABET accredited program.
• Advanced technical degree from an accredited college or university.
• Continuing education expected.

Experience Required

• 9 years relevant experience.
• MS degree may be substituted for up to 2 years of relevant experience.
• PhD may be substituted for up to 4 years of equivalent experience.