Job Description
Title: Senior Safety Engineer
Location: Tulsa, OK
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $150k-$175k/yr.
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $150k-$175k/yr.
Benefits: Insurance (Health, Medical, Dental), PTO, Paid Holidays, and more!
Sterling Engineering is looking for a Senior Safety Engineer to support the development of safety-critical pipeline inspection tools and associated equipment. This is a product-level engineering and system safety role, focused on identifying and reducing electrical, mechanical, and environmental risks rather than general workplace . The engineer will work cross-functionally with design, test, suppliers, and leadership to evaluate product risks, recommend mitigations, and ensure safety requirements are properly verified.
Job Duties:
- Establish and maintain a formal safety evaluation process for tool designs.
- Develop and maintain documented safety rationales for pipeline inspection tools.
- Lead hazard analyses including FMEA, fault-tree analysis, and other system safety activities.
- Identify credible threats and document the technical 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 product safety goals.
- Work with design and test teams to ensure safety recommendations are incorporated and verified.
- Review and manage safety-related supplier and contractor work.
- Review schematics, PCB layouts, cable and connector drawings, enclosures, BOMs, test data, and safety documentation.
- Evaluate design assumptions, protection methods, and verification evidence to determine whether they adequately support safety requirements.
- Communicate safety-case status, unresolved assumptions, verification gaps, mitigation options, and residual risk to technical teams and executive management.
- Support test planning and review test results to identify safety-related gaps.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related technical field.
- 8+ years of experience in electrical engineering, product safety, functional safety, compliance engineering, certification engineering, or safety-critical product development.
- Working knowledge of hazardous-location requirements for electrical equipment used in flammable or explosive atmospheres
- Experience preparing or reviewing safety documentation, including design rationale, verification evidence, test results, and residual-risk summaries.
- 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.
- Working knowledge of functional safety or safety-related control concepts such as ISO 13849, IEC 61508, IEC 62061, or similar safety lifecycle frameworks.
- Familiarity with hazardous-location, explosive-atmosphere, or ignition-risk concepts as applied to electrical/electronic equipment.
- Strong understanding of DC power distribution, batteries, current limiting, fusing, protection circuits, stored energy, fault currents, and thermal effects.
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 | Tulsa, OK |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $150,000–$175,000 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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