Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Product Safety Engineer to support the safety, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance of complex transportation products. This role is ideal for an engineer who has worked with safety-critical or highly regulated products and has hands-on experience identifying hazards, evaluating product risks, influencing engineering design decisions, and developing appropriate safety controls.
Location: Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
Employment Type: Full-Time, Direct Hire
Salary: $100,000–$130,000
Benefits: A comprehensive benefits package is offered, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, paid holidays, a 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, and additional employee perks.
What You'll Do:
- Evaluate product designs and systems for potential safety hazards and risks.
- Lead and participate in structured product safety and risk assessments.
- Use tools such as DFMEA, hazard analysis, fault tree analysis, risk assessments, functional safety analysis, and similar methodologies.
- Partner with engineering teams to identify safety concerns early in the product development process.
- Recommend design changes, controls, and other risk mitigation strategies.
- Investigate field issues, customer concerns, warranty claims, test failures, and other potential product safety concerns.
- Evaluate the severity and likelihood of product risks and help determine appropriate corrective actions.
- Interpret and apply applicable product safety regulations, standards, and customer requirements.
- Develop verification strategies and review safety and compliance testing.
- Review technical documentation, test results, and supporting compliance evidence.
- Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Quality, suppliers, customers, and outside testing laboratories.
- Maintain clear and defensible product safety and regulatory documentation.
- Support compliance with transportation regulations and standards, including FMVSS, CMVSS, ADA, FTA, and APTA requirements as applicable.
What We're Looking For:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Systems Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- 7+ years of engineering experience within product safety, systems engineering, regulatory compliance, product validation, or a related field.
- Experience identifying and evaluating hazards associated with engineered products or systems.
- Hands-on experience with structured risk assessment methodologies such as DFMEA, hazard analysis, fault tree analysis, functional safety, or similar tools.
- Experience working with engineering teams to drive design changes or other safety-related corrective actions.
- Ability to evaluate technical information and make sound risk-based decisions.
- Experience investigating field, customer, warranty, testing, or product performance issues is highly desirable.
- Experience interpreting and applying technical standards, regulations, or customer requirements.
- Strong technical documentation and communication skills.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Buffalo Grove, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $100,000–$130,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
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