Product Safety Engineer

Actalent; Fort Collins (CO); Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Hybrid work arrangement

PTO / Leave

Job summary

Actalent in Fort Collins, CO, seeks a Product Safety Engineer to support certification activities for turbine fuel valves and actuators. You’ll collaborate with engineering, labs, suppliers, and external agencies to ensure compliance with electrical, mechanical, pressure, machinery, hazardous-location, and regional safety requirements.

Responsibilities include coordinating tests and audits, preparing documentation, and maintaining technical files for traceability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering or similar field.
• 3+ years of relevant experience; 5+ years preferred.
• Experience with product-safety standards, regulatory requirements, and audits.
• Ability to read engineering drawings and technical documentation.
• Experience coordinating compliance or certification activities.

Responsibilities

• Support product-safety compliance and certification for industrial hardware.
• Ensure compliance with electrical, mechanical, pressure, and safety standards.
• Coordinate testing, audits, and certification documentation with internal teams and external agencies.
• Maintain organized technical files and traceability of compliance activities.
• Assist with new-product introduction projects and certification planning.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Documentation practices

Cross-functional collaboration

Reading engineering drawings

Audits & certifications support

Project coordination

Onsite/hybrid work coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering

Job description

Job Title: Product Safety Engineer

Job Description

The Compliance Engineer supports product-safety compliance and certification activities for industrial hardware products, with a focus on turbine fuel valves and actuators. This role is not a product-design position and does not specialize in EMC or EMI compliance. Instead, you work closely with product engineering, suppliers, laboratories, quality teams, and external certification agencies to ensure products meet all applicable electrical, mechanical, pressure, machinery, hazardous-location, and regional safety requirements. You play a key role in connecting standards, product requirements, technical documentation, testing, audits, and certification to ensure products are properly tested, documented, and approved for market use.

Responsibilities

• Support product-safety compliance and certification activities for industrial hardware products, including turbine fuel valves and actuators.
• Ensure products meet applicable electrical, mechanical, pressure, machinery, hazardous-location, and regional safety requirements.
• Collaborate closely with product engineering, laboratories, suppliers, quality teams, and external certification agencies to coordinate compliance efforts.
• Review and interpret engineering drawings and technical product documentation to verify compliance with relevant standards and requirements.
• Coordinate product testing activities, including mechanical and environmental tests such as temperature, water, pressure, and other laboratory evaluations.
• Support internal, external, and product-certification audits by preparing documentation, responding to findings, and facilitating corrective actions as needed.
• Maintain organized technical files and certification documentation to ensure accurate records and traceability of compliance activities.
• Assist with compliance and certification work for new-product-introduction projects, including planning, scheduling, and tracking certification tasks.
• Connect standards, product requirements, technical documentation, testing results, audits, and certification outcomes into a cohesive compliance approach.
• Work with external certification agencies, such as CSA and similar organizations, to obtain and maintain required product certifications.
• Contribute to quality systems and regulatory compliance processes, helping to improve procedures and maintain adherence to product-safety standards.
• Participate in cross-functional collaboration with mechanical and electrical engineers to address compliance questions and resolve issues.
• Provide project coordination or project-management support for compliance-related initiatives, ensuring timelines and deliverables are met.
• Help ensure that all products are properly tested, documented, certified, and able to meet applicable market and safety requirements.

Essential Skills

• Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• At least three years of relevant professional experience, with five or more years preferred.
• Experience working with physical products, hardware, manufacturing, assembly, testing, quality, certification, or a related engineering environment.
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings and technical product documentation.
• Exposure to product-safety standards, regulatory requirements, certification activities, quality systems, or compliance audits.
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering teams, laboratories, suppliers, quality groups, or external agencies.
• Strong documentation skills, with the ability to create, organize, and maintain detailed technical and certification records.
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple compliance tasks, projects, and documentation streams effectively.
• Ability to work onsite three days per week at the Lincoln campus in Fort Collins, Colorado in a hybrid work arrangement.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with one or more of the following: IEC standards, ATEX requirements, hazardous-location products, Pressure Equipment Directive (PED), pressure safety, machinery safety, CE marking, electrical safety, or marine-industry certification.
• Experience supporting internal, external, or product-certification audits.
• Experience working with external certification agencies such as CSA or similar organizations.
• Manufacturing or product-assembly experience with physical industrial hardware.
• Experience supporting mechanical laboratory testing, including temperature, water, pressure, or environmental testing.
• Experience maintaining technical files and certification documentation for compliance and regulatory purposes.
• Experience coordinating compliance or certification work for new-product-introduction projects.
• Project coordination or project-management experience in an engineering or technical environment.
• Comfort working with tangible industrial products, such as turbine fuel valves and actuators.
• Interest in building deeper knowledge in product safety, regulatory standards, and certification processes, with openness to learning from senior engineers.

Work Environment

This position operates in a hybrid work environment based at the Lincoln campus in Fort Collins, Colorado, with three days per week onsite and two days working from home. You join an eight‑person engineering team that includes both mechanical and electrical backgrounds and offers significant senior‑level expertise, providing strong mentorship and learning opportunities. The role involves regular interaction with product engineering, laboratories, suppliers, quality teams, and external certification agencies, and focuses on tangible industrial hardware products rather than purely theoretical or software‑only work. The environment emphasizes collaboration, knowledge sharing, and long‑term capacity building, with exposure to a wide range of compliance areas, including electrical safety, mechanical safety, pressure safety, machinery safety, hazardous locations, ATEX, CE marking, IEC standards, PED, and marine requirements.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Fort Collins, CO.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $50.00 - $65.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job‑related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post‑tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long‑term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Fort Collins,CO.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 16, 2026.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

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