Product Safety Engineer

Job description

Job Description Summary

Product Safety Engineering is a multifaceted discipline that combines technical expertise with an understanding of business needs to ensure the delivery of safe and effective products.

1. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Involves working across various departments to integrate technical and business requirements, ensuring a comprehensive approach to product safety.

2. System Design and Optimization: Focuses on identifying and quantifying system requirements, exploring different design concepts, conducting studies, and selecting optimal designs. This ensures the product is both safe and efficient.

3. Process Execution: Encompasses the entire lifecycle from concept through production to operation. It impacts projects, programs, and organizational practices, ensuring safety considerations are integrated throughout.

4. Professional Practices and Policies: Guided by established standards and policies, the role requires operational judgment to maintain safety and quality while allowing for innovation and improvement.

5. Moderate Autonomy: While guided by professional standards, the role involves significant decision-making authority, requiring a balance between adherence to protocol and independent judgment.

Job Description

The Product Safety Engineer is responsible for evaluating design safety and ensuring potential personnel and environmental hazards are mitigated. This involvement is throughout the entire product life cycle, including conducting reviews as part of the design process and tracking resolution of field issues.

Essential Responsibilities

·  Facilitate and support product safety risk assessments for new and existing (installed base equipment) units.
·  Facilitate the Product Safety Process cross-functionally.
·  Drive resolution of safety critical items.
·  Quantify risk by performing quantitative risk modeling on complex systems to assess design safety risk

Required Qualifications

·  Bachelor’s of Engineering degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Environmental, or similar field from an accredited college or university 
·  Minimum of 3 years of experience in a design, systems, field operations, or product safety role.

Desired Qualifications

·  Excellent team and communication skills.
·  Ability to perform well, under pressure, as a problem solver.
·  Successfully achieves concrete results through hard work and perseverance.
·  Easily analyzes and prioritizes information, distilling it to the critical issues and drawing accurate conclusions.
·  Ability to lead cross-functional teams.
·  Knowledgeable of global industry safety codes, standards/regulations.
·  Experience in performing probabilistic analysis.
·  Wind turbine design or operations experience 

The salary range for this position is $98,400 - $164,000 USD Annual. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s experience, their education, and the work location. In addition, this position is eligible for a performance bonus/variable incentive compensation. This posting is expected to close on July 2nd or thereafter.

*The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas.

Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness.

General Electric Company, Ropcor, Inc., their successors, and in some cases their affiliates, each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.

GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an  Equal Opportunity Employer . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes