Safety Design Hardware Engineer

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Description

At Amazon, we’re working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Amazon is one of the most recognizable brand names in the world and we distribute millions of products each year to our loyal customers.

The Mechatronics team builds full-stack innovation that ensures fulfilment and delivery network safety, speed, optimization, and value. We tackle big goals for the Amazon business and work hard to make automation history through invention, problem-solving, and highly-engaged teams. We are a global organization, with research and development labs based in Hamme, Belgium, Seattle, WA and Milan, Italy. Our development portfolio is focused on automation solutions in software workflows, matrix sortation and storage solutions, and mechanical singulation that provide broad extensibility across Amazon businesses.

Key job responsibilities

• Design Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction Measures
• Interface Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction Measures
• Review Guarding Calculations
• Review Presence Sensing Safeguarding Calculations
• Review Safety Requirements Specification
• SISTEMA calculations
• Review Ergonomic Assessment
• Review Completed safety functional Verification and Validation plan
  
  

A day in the life

In your role as a safety engineer, you play a crucial part in collaborating with various members of project teams to conceive, create, and ultimately provide secure and regulations-compliant products to meet the needs of our customers. This entails working closely with diverse professionals from different PSE (Product Safety Engineering) disciplines to ensure the seamless flow of essential feedback, insights, and deliverables concerning safety and compliance throughout the entire design process.

Your specialization lies in a range of critical areas, including risk analysis, systema calculations, and functional safety. Moreover, you possess an in-depth understanding of machinery related standards and regulations, allowing you to navigate the intricate landscape of safety and compliance with expertise and precision. Your expertise not only helps to ensure the safety of the products we develop but also fosters confidence among our customers and partners in the reliability and integrity of our offerings.

About The Team

Today our Electrical design team is about 10 people. Each of them has specific and extensive knowledge and skills. We therefore strongly encourage using the individual’s strengths to help others within the team, even if this individual is not part of the project. In this way we ensure that you do not become isolated within your project and that you remain connected with the rest of the team.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Hamme, BEL

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors in Engineering or similar
• CEMS (certified expert in machinery safety)
• CEFS (certified expert in functional safety)
• Extensive knowledge of European and American design standards
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Master Electrical Engineering or similar
• Good communication skills (Oral and Written)
  
  

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Company - D. Cloostermans-Huwaert NV

Job ID: A2435891