Job Description:
Come be DISRUPTIVE with us! At Milwaukee Tool, our most valued resource is our dedicated team of employees - employees who work with a passion to be the best and have an unparalleled pride in their work and in the Milwaukee brand. We know that the only way to sustain growth and success is to value the growth and success of each person within the organization that's why we invest in an individual's growth and development from day one.
All our teams touch every step of the process, that is why our Project teams are some of the key contributors to our continuous innovations. The fast-paced, agile environment continuously delivers disruptive technologies by providing every team with the resources needed to excel and working directly with End Users to understand how to deliver heavy duty products with high performance. We create Best in Class products by leveraging advanced analysis fabrics, extensive testing regimes, state-of-the-art manufacturing processes and cross-functional agility.
Under the direction of Product Safety and Regulatory leadership, you will serve as a senior technical resource responsible for evaluating and managing product safety and regulatory compliance risks throughout the product lifecycle. You will lead hazard analysis activities, provide regulatory guidance to cross-functional teams, support global compliance strategies, and mentor developing engineers while ensuring products meet applicable safety, regulatory, and certification requirements.
You'll be DISRUPTIVE through these duties and responsibilities:
- Be able to evaluate information and render opinion as to the safety of a concept, design, or product.
- Serve as the technical product safety lead for assigned product categories, platforms, or complex programs, utilizing hazard-based analysis techniques to develop safety opinions and recommendations regarding the safety of product concepts, designs, and proposed changes.
- Advise Project Leaders, Engineers and Designers regarding safety requirements including tests and design constraints to minimize risk of injury and/or property damage.
- Communicate with external customers regarding product safety matters.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to incorporate relevant standards, regulations, and internal safety expectations into product safety analyses, and clearly communicate the requirements to technical and non-technical cross-functional stakeholders.
- Supervise product safety testing, including preparation of test sample(s), execution of the test(s), test reporting and data analysis.
- Resolve ambiguous or higher-risk safety questions by applying engineering judgment, standards knowledge, field experience, test evidence, and consultation with appropriate internal or external authorities.
- Incorporate lessons learned from post-sale safety feedback, field issues, claims, incidents, quality data, and corrective action activity into new product/project reviews.
- Mentor and onboard other engineers by coaching technical judgment, facilitation skills, documentation quality, escalation discipline, and cross-functional communication.
- Review and provide feedback for operator's manuals and on-product markings.
- Assist the Department Director in the execution of recalls.
- Be conversant with the latest OSHA requirements and industry safety standards, rules or regulations. Where requirements are unclear, assist in obtaining an interpretation from the appropriate authority.
The TOOLS you'll bring with you:
- Requires a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Biomedical, or related field preferred) or technical equivalent.
- 5+ years of experience in product safety, regulatory compliance, certification, reliability, quality, design engineering, testing, or related technical risk assessment activities, preferably involving personal protective equipment (PPE), fall protection, power tools, outdoor power equipment, accessories, or consumer products.
- Possess strong verbal, written and organizational skills essential to professional communication.
- Experience influencing cross-functional teams and communicating complex technical requirements to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Show an emphasis on and adherence to schedule and attention to detail.
- Ability to travel both domestically and internationally, as necessary.
We provide these great perks and benefits:
- Robust health, dental and vision insurance plans.
- Generous 401 (K) savings plan.
- Education assistance.
- On-site wellness, fitness center, food and coffee service.
Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.
