Functional Safety Consultant

United States of America – Milwaukee (Airport, Remote), San Francisco, California, United States, Houston, Texas, United States, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world's manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers – amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life‑saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility – our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

As a Safety Controls Engineer/Functional Safety Consultant
, your core responsibility will be to work with customers to identify and measure risks on industrial machinery. With this information, safety solutions can be engineered, verified, and validated to protect workers from injury in the industrial environment. You will report to the Manager, Safety Services and will be fully remote, working anywhere in the United States.

• Face-to-face or virtual interaction with customers to gather knowledge around industrial machine hazards
• Development and delivery of core safety offerings utilizing industry and internal standards for our customers, including but not limited to:
• Lockout Tagout audits and procedures
• Risk assessments
• Safety requirement specifications
• Safety system engineering
• Safety function verification
• Stop time measurements / calculations
• Safety system validations
• Meet project milestones, or escalating as required to complete projects on time and within scope/budget
• Lead customer meetings as a subject matter expert
• Leverage safety service delivery processes, methodologies, and tools to complete tasks on time and in budget
• Capable of supporting the sales channel in identifying and qualifying machine safety projects
• Travel as role requires, (generally Monday thru Friday travel, with occasional weekends)

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
• The ability to travel 50% of the time.

• Have, or be working towards, a TUV Functional Safety Engineer Certification (or equivalent)
• 5+ years of industrial controls or machine safety experience
• Experience in industrial safety (risk assessment delivery, system design, etc.)
• Working knowledge of OSHA and industrial safety standards (ISO, ANSI, etc.)
• Working knowledge of the Safety Lifecycle and ability to complete safety assessments, typically non‑team based, without supervision.
• Working knowledge of ISO 13849, ISO 12100, ANSI B11, ANSI Z244.1, NFPA 79, NFPA 70E, OSHA CFR  and OSHA CFR 1910 subpart O.
• Experience in industrial controls, (design, troubleshooting, etc.)
• Experience in managing projects.

• Health insurance including medical, dental and vision
• 401k
• Paid time off
• Parental and caregiver leave
• Flexible work schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life
• To learn more about our benefits package, please visit

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.

For this role, the base salary compensation is from $97,520 - $146,280 with an annual target bonus of 5% of base salary. Our benefits for the US can be found here. Actual pay will be based on factors such as skills, knowledge, education, and experience.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans.

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