Product Safety Engineer

Newell Brands • Huntersville, NC • 5h ago

Job ID: 12537

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Newell Brands is a leading consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands like Graco®, Coleman®, Oster®, Rubbermaid®, Sharpie® and Yankee Candle® - and 24,000 talented teammates around the world. Our culture is built on values in action: Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership, and Leadership. We work together to win, grow, and make a real impact-supported by a high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative environment where you can be your best, every day.

Summary:

The Product Safety Engineer is responsible for delivering actionable information about the consumer and quality of our brands and service to the business and is a trusted strategic business partner to minimize business risk by making recommendations for improvement and ensure the highest quality products are in the field in the hands of our consumers.

Product Safety refers to the attributes and analysis of product complaints and product performance, which can contain highly sensitive information about potential adverse events or quality concern occurrences.

Some travel will be expected and availability for international conference calls will be required.

Responsibilities:

Supports Legal, R&D and the overall business from a product integrity standpoint, which concerns consumer events or potential events of a sensitive nature.

Critically analyze escalated events for product integrity trends, and identify potential improvement opportunities. Manage notifications of these insights to internal business partners.

Benchmark adverse and product integrity issues against industry

Liaise between legal teams and the business to capture closed loop feedback and reporting.

Makes actionable recommendations based on trends, expertise/knowledge of product and external market trends and recommends process improvement opportunities

Work with the team to understand and implement historical best practices, design and warnings as needed, and lessons learned from various field insights

Challenge teams on inherently more robust designs intended to reduce consumer misuse and opportunities for manufacturing defects

Works on a wide range of opportunities and problems where use of creative thinking and the application of related quality and continuous improvement theories and principles is required.

Support Risk process and Supports Legal Resolution process

Plays supporting role in legal requests initiatives including:

Historical data collection for Legal review/adverse team review

Identification of key SKUS as required for incident review

Other ad hoc requests as required

Some domestic travel will be required

Qualifications:

Electrical, Mechanical, or other relevant degree

2-5 years of technical experience and knowledge in related fields

Quality Engineering and/or R&D experience

High motivation and curiosity, assertiveness, flexibility and adaptability to change

Problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills

Experience with data coordination, collection, databases

Experience with CRM data, Salesforce a plus

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Experience with using Business Intelligence tools (Tableau, PowerBI or Qlikview) a plus

Knowledge of Consumer Products state, federal and international safety regulations a plus

Exposure and experience in six-sigma, lean, FMEA and team-based project management is highly desirable

Must be self-directed with the capability of setting direction for other not under their direct control

Should be result oriented, able to perform against timelines with a passion for continuous process improvement

Preferred Qualifications:

Consumer products industry experience.

Six Sigma Green Belt/Black Belt.

Manufacturing experience in countries outside of the U.S.

Excellent data analysis skills using MS Excel, and Access products or other data analysis tool; ERP database working knowledge desirable

*Please note this position will not sponsor H1B (OPT status).

Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid, Sharpie, Graco, Coleman, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Yankee Candle, Paper Mate, FoodSaver, Dymo, EXPO, Elmer's, Oster, NUK, Spontex and Campingaz. We are focused on delighting consumers by lighting up everyday moments. Newell Brands and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers and comply with applicable employment laws. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled are encouraged to apply.

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