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Machinery Safety Standards & Training Manager – ANSI B11 / ISO 13849
Job Family: Product / Safety Services
Location: Remote – United States
Compensation Range: $140,000 – $180,000
Travel: Customer sites, standards committee meetings, Fortress US and UK locations
Machinery safety is your specialism. Teaching it is your superpower.
Read this first, because it will save us both time: this is not an EHS, OSHA compliance or site-safety role. We are not looking for a safety officer, an EHS manager, or a workplace-safety generalist.
We are looking for a machinery safety specialist — someone who works in functional safety and machine safeguarding, who can talk fluently about ANSI B11, ISO 13849-1 Performance Levels, IEC 62061 SILs and ISO 12100 risk assessment, and who gets a genuine kick out of helping other engineers understand it.
What You'll Be Doing
- Design and deliver first-class training on ANSI B11 and related machinery safety standards — webinars, on-site workshops and technical sessions — for customers, channel partners and Fortress colleagues
- Support customers through machine risk assessment, safeguarding selection and safety concept design, on the plant floor and remotely
- Represent Fortress on national and international standards committees, feeding developments back into our product and commercial strategy
- Build our Fortress training academy, from curriculum and competency framework through to measuring real-world impact
- Partner with Product Management and Marketing to turn dense standards content into material engineers actually want to read
- Shape New Product Development and New Product Introduction, so US standards compliance is engineered in from concept rather than bolted on at launch
- Grow Fortress's reputation through tradeshows, industry bodies and thought leadership across the US machinery safety community
Some weeks that's a customer's plant floor. Some weeks a standards meeting. Some weeks a webinar to 200 controls engineers. All of it adds up to the same thing: fewer people getting hurt at work.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications
- Deep, applied knowledge of machinery safety standards — ANSI B11 series and/or ISO 13849-1, IEC 62061, ISO 12100, NFPA 79, ANSI/RIA R15.06 — gained in industrial automation, machine building, OEM/integrator or machinery safety consultancy environments
- A track record of technical training, teaching or coaching engineering audiences, and a talent for making the complex simple
- Hands-on credibility with safety PLCs, interlocks, light curtains, guard locking and control reliable circuits — enough to earn an engineer's trust in the first ten minutes
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, turning complex regulatory requirements into practical guidance
- A continuous improvement mindset and the ability to lead and influence without formal authority
- Willingness to travel to customer sites and our US and UK locations
- CMSE® (Certified Machinery Safety Expert), TÜV Functional Safety Engineer or equivalent is very welcome — applied expertise matters more to us than the certificate
- University degree or equivalent experience gained on the job
Location
Home based, United States. with travel to Fortress Interlocks Americas office – Erlanger, Kentucky, and some international travel
Benefits
- 24 days holiday per year + 9 holiday office closures
- 401k matching and profit-sharing potential
- Paid parental leave – 14 weeks fully paid
- Group healthcare policy with medical, dental and vision, family and partner options
- Financial insurance coverage – voluntary life, disability, accident and illness insurance
- WPO Employee Assistance Program
- Long service recognition
About Fortress Safety
Fortress Safety has been protecting people and equipment in hazardous environments since 1977. From our UK HQ in Wolverhampton and our US home in Erlanger, Kentucky, we design the safety interlocks, trapped key interlocking, guard locking and machine guarding solutions that keep machinery — and the people around it — safe worldwide. We are part of Halma plc, a FTSE 100 group of over 8,000 people united by one purpose: growing a safer, cleaner, healthier future for everyone, every day.
Inclusion and Belonging
At Fortress, we don't just accept difference—we celebrate it. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all colleagues. If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know.
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