Role summary
the organization and the organization is working with a leader in the pipeline services industry based in the Central United States to identify and evaluate a Sr. System Safety Engineer
Responsibilities
The Senior System Safety Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for identifying and reducing electrical, mechanical, and environmental risks in in-line inspection tools and associated equipment.
This is a product-level engineering role, not a general environmental health and safety or workplace safety role.
The engineer will perform safety-related design reviews, make design recommendations, support test planning, review test results, and communicate system risk, unresolved assumptions, and residual risk to management.
This role operates as a product-safety function with cross-disciplinary review responsibility. It should not be embedded under a discipline-specific design manager whose team owns the designs being reviewed. The role informs risk acceptance but does not accept product risk on behalf of the company.
The role requires independent judgment, clear communication, and practical risk-based decisions grounded in sound engineering principles, accepted practices, and applicable standards.
- Establish and maintain a formal safety evaluation process for tool design.
- Develop and maintain documented safety rationales for pipeline inspection tools.
- Facilitate hazard analyses such as Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (), fault-tree analysis, and related system safety activities.
- Define and document credible threats, including the basis for excluding severe consequences from further analysis.
- Identify applicable safety standards and accepted engineering practices.
- Review mechanical, electrical, and control-system designs and make recommendations to achieve safety goals set by executive management.
- Work with design and test teams to ensure safety recommendations are incorporated and verified.
- Manage and technically review safety-related supplier or contractor work.
- Communicate safety-case status, unresolved assumptions, verification gaps, mitigation options, and residual risk to design teams and executive management.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in electrical engineering, product safety, functional safety, compliance engineering, certification engineering, or safety-critical product development.
- Experience applying structured safety methods to complex engineered products, systems, or equipment.
- Working knowledge of hazard analysis, risk reduction, safety requirements, verification planning, validation evidence, and residual-risk communication.
- Direct experience designing electrical or electronic equipment used in hazardous locations (preferred).
- Experience with lithium battery packs and battery management systems (BMS)/protection circuits (preferred).
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