AMR Safety Lead

Role summary

You will be work in a hybrid environment from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, or Mayfield Heights OH.

Responsibilities

• Provide functional safety expertise across multiple teams during all phases of the product lifecycle.
• Work with the safety leads of different departments at the Company to align the AMRA mobile robot that navigates using onboard sensing without fixed paths, covered by ANSI/A3 R15.08 and ISO 3691-4. Read more business with our overall goals and objectives concerning functional safety and regulatory needs.
• Define and continuously improve and guide alignment of AMR Business's safety policies/processes with the larger the Company safety guidelines. Including; functional safety processes, methods, templates, and best practices across the business.
• Participate on standards committees relevant to AMRs to ensure our portfolio of products and services are positioned effectively to deliver the business outcomes, applications, and capabilities.
• Take an ownership role in architecting the AMR safety strategy. This includes collaboration with systems, product management, engineering, services, and operation teams across the business. Stay up-to-date on industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitive product launches.
• Provide guidance to key regional stakeholders on customer needs and business priorities with respect to functional safety statements and interruptions.
• Maintaining oversight of residual risk management and customer-facing safety documentation.
• Lead investigations into safety incidents internally and externally and provide appropriate responses and reports.
• Drive interpretation and implementation of evolving standards such as ISO 3691-4Driverless Industrial Trucks. Safety requirements for driverless industrial trucks and automated guided vehicles. Read more, ISO 13849, IEC 62061Safety of Machinery - Functional Safety of Control Systems. Machinery-sector implementation of IEC 61508 for safety-related electrical control systems. Read more, IEC 61508Functional Safety of E/E/PE Safety-Related Systems. The umbrella functional safety standard defining the safety lifecycle, SILA discrete level (SIL 1 to SIL 4) specifying the required risk reduction and dependability of a safety function under IEC 61508 and its sector standards. Read more levels, and requirements for electrical, electronic, and programmable systems. Read more, ANSI B56.5, and related regulations.
• Mentor engineers and technical leaders on hazard analysis, risk assessment, safety requirements development, and functional safety principles.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Relevant Field.
• Legal authorization to work in the USA. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening
• Availability for travel up to 10% of the time domestic and international.

Nice to have

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience.
• Prior experience with international regulatory standards or similar industry working committees
• Represent the company at an executive level with key customers, industry groups, standards committees, and distributors.
• Work with a geographically dispersed team
• Expert level of automation industry knowledge with a focus on machine safety
• TUV Functional SafetyThe part of overall safety that depends on a system or equipment operating correctly in response to its inputs, including safe management of faults and failures. Read more EngineerAn engineer who specifies, analyzes, implements, or assesses safety functions and safety lifecycle work products. Read more or Functional Safety Expert Certification (or equivalent)
• Working knowledge of ISO 13849, IEC 61508, IEC 62061, EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230, or other relevant standards

Standards

• IEC 61508
• ISO 13849
• IEC 62061
• ISO 3691-4