Safety Engineer

Emerson; Ketchikan (AK); On-site; USD 96,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Benefits

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Emerson Electric Co. in Ketchikan, AK is seeking a Safety Engineer to own critical reliability tasks and drive growth. You’ll tune Jenkins caching, decide on GraphQL versus build, monitor health, and implement alerting in relentlessly curious production environments.

You’ll read Nginx traces, push changes behind feature flags for rapid rollbacks, integrate services, and build accessible front-end interfaces on Linux, while delivering stakeholder dashboards that show clear numbers.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of standing behind your own estimates.
• Experience translating React complexity for a non-technical audience.
• Adaptability and resilience when facing shifting requirements.
• Solid understanding of technology best practices and industry standards.
• Proven aptitude for Work Ethic, ideally near Ketchikan, AK.
• Comfort with contract arrangements and the rhythms of a client-centric workplace.
• Sharp organizational skills and an ability to juggle multiple workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Tune Jenkins caching so Emerson survives the Ketchikan launch spike on the same hardware.
• Decide when to buy GraphQL versus build it for Emerson's Ketchikan, AK stack.
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for relentlessly curious production environments.
• Read the Nginx stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root.
• Push Jenkins changes safely behind flags so Ketchikan, AK rollbacks take seconds.
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the Emerson stack.
• Build responsive, accessible front-end interfaces with Linux.
• Build Stakeholder Management dashboards so Emerson's technology team stops asking engineers for numbers.

Skills

5+ years estimating

React communication

Adaptability

Tech best practices

Work ethic

Contract familiarity

Multitasking

Tools

Jenkins

Nginx

GraphQL

Linux

Job description

The Safety Engineer chair at Emerson is for builders, not bystanders, with $96,000 - $134,000 attached and Jenkins on the daily menu. Step into a Safety Engineer position at Emerson where $96,000 - $134,000, team support, and career growth come standard.

Key Responsibilities

• Tune Jenkins caching so Emerson survives the Ketchikan launch spike on the same hardware
• Decide when to buy GraphQL versus build it for Emerson's Ketchikan, AK stack
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for relentlessly curious production environments
• Read the Nginx stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
• Push Jenkins changes safely behind flags so Ketchikan, AK rollbacks take seconds
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the Emerson stack
• Build responsive, accessible front-end interfaces with Linux
• Build Stakeholder Management dashboards so Emerson's technology team stops asking engineers for numbers

What You'll Bring

• At least 5 years of standing behind your own estimates
• Experience translating React complexity for a non-technical audience
• Adaptability and resilience when facing shifting requirements
• Solid understanding of technology best practices and industry standards
• Proven aptitude for Work Ethic, ideally near Ketchikan, AK
• Comfort with contract arrangements and the rhythms of a client-centric workplace
• Sharp organizational skills and an ability to juggle multiple workstreams

We started Emerson in a Ketchikan garage because the technology status quo deserved a warm-yet-rigorous reckoning. The door to every manager at Emerson is genuinely open, calendar permitting and politics aside.

Our Emerson offer leans on substance: $96,000 - $134,000, mentorship, benefits, and a flexible schedule that respects Ketchikan life.

Hiring is happening now, not last quarter, for this Safety Engineer seat.