Design Safety Expert

Your department

The department you will be working in will be based in the BCN office whilst focusing on projects across the EMEA LATAM region (Europe, Middle East, Africa & Latin America). The team has strong collaborative links across the customer centre and centrally offering expertise in Design Safety Compliance. To accommodate continued growth and prepare for future success, we are seeking a Design Safety Engineer talent who can blend technical expertise, with a hands-on and open approach ensuring projects success.

Your responsibilities and activities will include:

• Support a safe working environment: Championing, encouraging and leading by example to deliver a safety-first culture.
• Through effective collaboration: utilize expert skills and knowledge to guide multiple project teams, internal and external suppliers to deliver safe system design solutions, with the ability to deal with ambiguity to make and own risk-based decisions.
• Oversee Project Deliverables: Identifying design safety uncertainty through effective risk analysis and propose mitigations as well as executing site inspections.
• Champion Design Safety: for the lifecycle of the equipment, during the tendering and sales phase through to design, build, installation, commissioning, deployment, operational use, decommissioning and disposal for project team members and end users.
• Support Team Growth and Development: Continuously improve and grow your own and teams technical and professional development, sharing lessons learned across projects and products.
• Ensure Technical Compliance and Readiness: Able to identify non-compliance through audit of the system design from start of pre bid phase, through Engineering and handover phases to provide a Declaration of Conformance (CE).
• Provide Regular Updates to Management: Communicate effectively with project and management teams on status and performance, highlighting potential risks and solutions.
• Be a trusted partner: with Vanderlande’s customers through effective, collaborative working relationships. Have an ability to discuss and advise customers and suppliers on machinery safety and legislative compliance to ensure that customers’ expectations are met or exceeded.

Personal characteristics:

• Confident, outgoing and personable team player.
• Proactive hands-on approach, searches for information instead of waiting.
• Good attention to detail with the ability to follow procedures and maintain accurate records.
• Takes ownership of their responsibilities for projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Adept at negotiation, diplomacy and conflict resolution.

Education and Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience.
• BSc/MSc in Engineering field
• Understanding of the machinery directive (2006/42/EC) and experience in the application of safety standards such as EN 619; ISO 13849-1/2; ISO 13850, ISO 14122-1 till -4; IEC 60204-1)
• Qualified in machine safety CMSE (Certified Machine Safety Expert) or equivalent.
• Knowledge of electrical safety and 18th Edition Wiring Regulations (BS7671)
• Competency in PUWER (Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998).
• Evidence of working in the area of machine safety.
• Formal health, safety and environment qualification (CDM, IOSH, NEBOSH, SMSTS)
• Professionally Accredited with an engineering body or aiming to be.
• Proven track record in material handling systems strongly preferred. Experience of airport baggage handling or parcel systems (note training will be given in these disciplines).
• Proven track record with customer interaction by the means of presenting, workshops etc. strongly preferred.

Our offer

You will get the opportunity to contribute to the growth and profitability of Vanderlande Industries. An organization which has been elected as ‘Top Employer’ and ‘Best Employer’ for several years in a row and is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
- 22 days of vacation, a week of holidays in Easter and in Christmas, and a pack of Fridays with a reduced work schedule.
- Training Plans
- Flexible schedule
- Work Remote policy (60% WFH 40% office)
- Flexible compensation plan