Lead Product Safety Engineer

GE Vernova

Barcelona, Spain

Job Description Summary

Product Safety Engineering is a multifaceted discipline that combines technical expertise with an understanding of business needs to ensure the delivery of safe and effective products.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Involves working across various departments to integrate technical and business requirements, ensuring a comprehensive approach to product safety;
System Design and Optimization: Focuses on identifying and quantifying system requirements, exploring different design concepts, conducting studies, and selecting optimal designs. This ensures the product is both safe and efficient;
Process Execution: Encompasses the entire lifecycle from concept through production to operation. It impacts projects, programs, and organizational practices, ensuring safety considerations are integrated throughout;
Professional Practices and Policies: Guided by established standards and policies, the role requires operational judgment to maintain safety and quality while allowing for innovation and improvement;
Moderate Autonomy: While guided by professional standards, the role involves significant decision-making authority, requiring a balance between adherence to protocol and independent judgment.

Job Description

The Lead Product Safety Engineer is responsible for evaluating design safety and ensuring potential personnel and environmental hazards are mitigated. This involvement is throughout the entire product life cycle, including conducting reviews as part of the design process and tracking resolution of field issues.

Essential Responsibilities

Facilitate and support product safety risk assessments for new and existing (installed base equipment) units;
Facilitate the Product Safety Process cross-functionally;
Drive resolution of safety critical items;
Quantify risk by performing quantitative risk modeling on complex systems to assess design safety risk.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s of Engineering degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Environmental, or similar field from an accredited college or university;
Experience in a design, systems, field operations, or product safety role;
Excellent team and communication skills;
Ability to perform well, under pressure, as a problem solver;
Successfully achieves concrete results through hard work and perseverance;
Easily analyzes and prioritizes information, distilling it to the critical issues and drawing accurate conclusions;
Ability to lead cross-functional teams;
Willingness and availability to work from the Barcelona office;
Fluent English;
Permanent Spanish Work Permit.