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Functional Safety Consultant

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StageUnknownStandardsISO 13849-1 · ISO 12100 · NFPA 79IndustryIndustrial machinerySenioritySeniorRegionMultiple locationsWork modeRemoteSource year2026Company sizeUnknownRole familyConsultingSegmentUnknownEmploymentUnknownEmployerNot in the directoryCertificationsTUV Functional Safety Engineer

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Role summary

As a Safety Controls Engineer/Functional Safety Consultant, your core responsibility will be to work with customers to identify and measure risks on industrial machinery. With this information, safety solutions can be engineered, verified, and validated to protect workers from injury in the industrial environment. You will report to the Manager, Safety Services and will be fully remote, working anywhere in the United States.

Responsibilities

  • Face-to-Face or Virtual interaction with customers to gather knowledge around industrial machine hazards
  • Development and delivery of core safety offerings utilizing industry and internal standards for our customers, including but not limited to
  • Lockout Tagout audits and procedures
  • Risk Assessments
  • Safety Requirement Specifications
  • Safety System Engineering
  • Safety FunctionA function implemented by a safety-related system intended to achieve or maintain a safe state for a specific hazardous event. Read more Verification
  • Stop Time Measurements / Calculations
  • Safety System Validations
  • Meet project milestones, or escalating as required to complete projects on time and within scope/budget
  • Lead customer meetings as a subject matter expert
  • Leverage safety service delivery processes, methodologies, and tools to complete tasks on time and in budget.
  • Capable of supporting the sales channel in identifying and qualifying machine safety projects
  • Travel as role requires, (generally Monday thru Friday travel, with occasional weekends)

Requirements

  • Bachelors Degree in Relevant Field.
  • Legal authorization to work in the U.S.
  • The ability to travel 50% of the time.

Nice to have

  • Have, or working towards, a TUV Functional SafetyThe part of overall safety that depends on a system or equipment operating correctly in response to its inputs, including safe management of faults and failures. Read more EngineerAn engineer who specifies, analyzes, implements, or assesses safety functions and safety lifecycle work products. Read more Certification (or equivalent)
  • 5+ years of industrial controls or machine safety experience
  • Experience in industrial safety (risk assessment delivery, system design, etc.)
  • Working knowledge of OSHA and industrial safety standards (ISO, ANSI, etc.)
  • Working knowledge of the Safety Lifecycle and ability to complete safety assessments, typically non-team based, without supervision.
  • Working knowledge of ISO 13849, ISO 12100Safety of Machinery - Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction. The foundational machinery safety standard establishing risk assessment methodology and the hierarchy of risk reduction. Read more, ANSI B11, ANSI Z244.1, NFPA 79, NFPA 70E, OSHA CFR 1910.147 and OSHA CFR 1910 subpart O.
  • Experience in industrial controls, (design, troubleshooting, etc.)
  • Experience in managing projects.

Standards

  • ISO 13849-1 Safety-Related Parts of Control Systems
  • ISO 12100 Safety of Machinery - Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction
  • NFPA 79

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