Talascend is currently seeking a Safety Risk Engineer for a contract opportunity with our client in Warren, Michigan.
Overview
Lead risk-reduction projects that improve workplace safety across manufacturing and non-manufacturing environments. This role partners with cross-functional technical teams to assess hazards, implement effective controls, and develop practical solutions using emerging technologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead risk-reduction projects from problem definition and prioritization through pilot, implementation, validation, and sustainment.
- Partner with manufacturing, facilities, engineering, safety, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, skilled trades, suppliers, and other stakeholders to identify and reduce risk.
- Apply design-in safety principles during planning, risk assessment, design review, commissioning, start-up, and final-location verification.
- Facilitate hazard analyses and risk assessments, documenting hazards, required controls, residual risk, and corrective actions.
- Translate risk findings, field observations, incident learnings, user feedback, and operational data into controls, standard work, specifications, and design improvements.
- Track risks, dependencies, decisions, and corrective actions through completion, escalating unresolved high-risk issues with clear options and recommendations.
- Evaluate emerging capabilities, including artificial intelligence, computer vision, automation, analytics, wearables, and low-code tools, to improve risk identification, control effectiveness, and decision quality.
- Lead pilots and experiments using evidence, feedback, and user input to determine what to refine or scale.
- Create technical documentation, leadership updates, training materials, and adoption plans that support long-term implementation.
- Share proven practices to improve safety standards, tools, and risk-reduction methods.
- Visit operating areas, project locations, and suppliers as required.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, occupational safety, industrial hygiene, environmental health, manufacturing, or a related technical discipline; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
- Two to 10 years of experience in safety, engineering, manufacturing, facilities, operations, project leadership, continuous improvement, or technical implementation.
- Experience leading hazard analyses, risk assessments, design reviews, corrective-action plans, or control verification.
- Experience managing cross-functional safety or engineering projects from problem definition and prioritization through pilot, implementation, validation, and standardization.
- Ability to evaluate high-consequence risks, identify effective engineering controls, and verify that controls are implemented and sustained.
- Ability to convert ambiguous problems into structured plans, priorities, decisions, and implementable outcomes.
- Ability to translate field observations, incident learnings, operational data, and emerging technologies into practical risk-reduction solutions.
- Strong analytical, written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risk to operators, engineers, suppliers, and leadership.
- Willingness to work onsite and visit operating areas, project locations, and suppliers as required.
We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those qualified individuals who closely meet the qualifications of the position will be contacted. The details of the position are only a summary, other duties may be assigned as necessary.
Background Check and Drug Screen may be required.
Talascend is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
Military connected talent encouraged to apply.