Component and Product Safety Engineer

At the Toronto Design Centre, our Product Development teams provide solutions to our customers through the design and development of AC-DC and DC-DC power supplies. This role combines component engineering and product safety responsibilities. In this role, you will:

• Provide independent component engineering support for the Power Supply Design group, including component evaluation, preferred-part selection, component database maintenance, and sustaining support.
• Support, coordinate, and manage product safety compliance and certification activities for AC-DC and DC-DC power supply products to applicable global approval standards and regulations.

• Evaluate design engineers' component requests and recommend existing or preferred components when technically appropriate.
• For new components:
• Extract and validate required parametric information.
• Determine RoHS and other applicable compliance status.
• Obtain supplementary technical and compliance information from component manufacturers.
• Evaluate similarity and technical equivalency of components from proposed manufacturers.
• Recommend technically suitable alternate manufacturers.
• Apply corporate and site component selection rules.
• Monitor component life cycle and provide reporting when required.
• Guide design engineers in component selection to reduce unnecessary component proliferation and promote use of preferred parts.
• Populate and maintain the MPS component database and site CAD component database, including accurate attributes, manufacturer data, supporting documentation, and preferred-part status.
• Contribute to and maintain the preferred parts database.
• Assign part numbers for custom electrical and mechanical components and assemblies and manage Approved Manufacturers Lists (AMLs).
• Serve as a technical resource for sustaining issues involving electrical and electromechanical components.
• Gather and analyze technical data, support root-cause investigations, and recommend corrective actions for component-related problems.
• Work with Quality Engineering, Product Design, Manufacturing, off-site manufacturing locations, Purchasing and Supply Chain, component suppliers, and component engineers at other sites.
• Support technical evaluation of proposed component changes and alternate components.

• Serve as a technical advisor to internal organizations on product safety matters.
• Conduct methodical safety reviews of regulated product designs at appropriate stages of development.
• Review product designs and engineering changes for safety compliance and provide approval or recommendations within delegated authority.
• Advise design teams on the identification and application of safety-critical components.
• Provide guidance on applicable product safety standards, testing requirements, certification expectations, and agency interpretations.
• Review circuit designs for safety-related considerations, including primary, secondary, ground, SELV, and TNV circuits.
• Perform and coordinate product safety compliance testing involving electrical, thermal, fire, mechanical, and other applicable physical hazards.
• Perform non-automated testing and evaluation of operating analog and digital circuitry using appropriate electronic measurement equipment.
• Analyze test results, diagnose noncompliance or abnormal conditions, and work with design teams to resolve design or production issues.
• Work with external compliance laboratories and service providers to obtain required international certifications and approvals such as CSA, UL, TUV.
• Coordinate and facilitate the creation and revision of safety agency reports and certification files.
• Coordinate safety agency witness testing and responses to agency inquiries.
• Coordinate and host assigned site…