Role summary
In this strategic role within our Digital Grid division, you'll serve as the central guardian of product safety and product conformity. By leading rigorous risk assessments, driving global compliance, and orchestrating centralized oversight of Product Safety processes, you'll ensure consistent, process-driven execution across all execution units—directly boosting operational efficiency, reducing risks at scale, and accelerating high-impact delivery.
Responsibilities
- Ensure robust product safety processes are established and consistently followed by all Digital Grid segments for all products launched to market.
- Conduct independent reviews of project artifacts to verify evidence of comprehensive, data-driven risk assessments, hazard identification, and mitigation implementation across design, development, and deployment phases.
- Validate that residual risks are properly documented and communicated through clear, user-centric manuals, warnings, and other resources.
- Ensure that all processes are followed rigorously and that product safety requirements are consistently met.
- Monitor compliance with defined standards and emerging regulations, ensuring that all products adhere to safety and quality requirements.
- Conduct regular audits and assessments to verify compliance and identify areas for improvement.
- Orchestrate product safety responsible persons from segments to make sure that all product safety risks are identified, assessed managed, documented and mitigated effectively.
- Collaborate with project teams to integrate product safety risk management strategies and product safety aspects into project planning and execution.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for enhancing product safety processes and compliance measures.
- Stay updated on industry best practices and regulatory changes to ensure ongoing compliance and product safety and conformity.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Electrical Engineering, Quality Management, or a closely related discipline.
- Certifications in risk management, quality standards or process governance (e.g., Six Sigma Black Belt) are desirable.
- 5+ years of hands-on expertise in product safety, functional safety, quality assurance, or regulatory compliance, with demonstrated success in centralized governance or product safety or quality management within the energy, utilities, or high-tech sectors.
- Experience with digital grid technologies, IoT-enabled devices, or smart infrastructure is a strong advantage.
- Deep proficiency in risk assessment frameworks, compliance auditing tools, quality management systems and QMiP/process governance methodologies; expertise in audit planning, , data analytics, and digital quality dashboards for cross-unit performance tracking.
- Exceptional communication and influence skills to align global teams, present findings to leadership, a meticulous, analytical mindset with advanced problem-solving capabilities and a proven ability to enforce standards without compromising.