Safety Engineer
Comau LLC
Southfield, MI
Southfield, MI
- Engineering
- Full-time
- safety engineer
- risk assessment
- OSHA compliance
The Safety Engineer is responsible for conducting risk assessments and ensuring compliance with safety standards for tooling, robotic cells, and automated systems within engineering projects. They support project teams by performing safety analyses, validating safety features, and overseeing on-site safety verification during installation and commissioning. Additionally, they lead incident investigations, develop corrective actions, and provide safety training to personnel.
Summary
Safety Engineer play a vital role in complex engineering projects core responsibility for support Project Team and Site on the lines risk analysis assessment.
Duties and Responsibilities
Main areas of responsibilities are:
- Achievement of timing, quality and cost targets
- Assure the use of company standards (product, processes, norms ...)
- Develops the risk analysis activity for tooling, robotic cells and automated systems, in order to assure, the compliance to all the safety norms
- Conduct risk assessments (e.g. PFMEA, Ergonomic Analysis, Hazard Assessments) for new and modified tooling
- Ensure compliance with applicable standards such as OSHA, ANSI, ISO 12100, ISO 13849 and local regulations.
- Performing Safety Analysis during all project phases, participate in tooling design reviews giving continuous feedbacks to the Project Team
- Validate guarding, interlocks, lockout points, pinch-point protection, emergency stop etc.
- On site checks. In order to verify the correct line installation and commissioning vs the safety requirements
- Verifies the contents of the technical file and develops the CE document certification.
- Investigate tooling-related incidents, near-misses, and failures.
- Lead corrective actions and develop long-term safety improvements.
- Deliver training to operators, maintenance technicians, and engineers on proper tooling use.




