Product Safety Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define and implement the product safety strategy across key product categories
• Serve as the subject matter expert on safety engineering practices, guiding cross functional teams through design, development, and post-market phases
• Perform hazard analyses and risk assessments for new and existing products, recommending design improvements, process changes or new technologies to enhance product safety
• Collaborate with supplier engineering teams to integrate safety features and mitigation methods into product architecture
• Support product compliance teams to ensure all products comply with relevant safety standards and certifications
• Collaborate with cross functional teams, such as sourcing, quality, and merchant teams, to evaluate and qualify new suppliers based on technical capability, safety history and compliance
• Track and analyze product safety metrics, including but not limited to, field defect rates, production non-conformances, customer complaints, star ratings, warranty repairs, and product claims
• Investigate escalated product safety concerns and work with cross-functional internal teams diagnose potential root causes and mitigation methods
• Oversee internal and external safety testing protocols for electrical, mechanical, and chemical risks
• Serve as the primary point of contact for escalated safety concerns across the organization
• Create and maintain technical safety documentation including design safety reviews, and incident tracking
• Cookordinate with cross-functional teams to manage field actions, such as quarantine or product recall, when necessary

Qualifications

• A minimum of seven (7) years of related experience, with increasing responsibilities, in a global supply chain
• Should have strong experience evaluating product safety or risk assessment in a durable consumer products or appliances industry
• Preferred: ASQ or CSP certification or equivalent
• This role does not require a degree. We value relevant skills and experience and alignment with our core values above all else