Function Overview
Reporting to the Product Safety Manager, this role is focused on closely collaborating with Dyson's internal teams and Contract Engineering partners (JDM) to uphold and maintain the product safety standards established at Dyson. The key responsibilities include:
Accountabilities
- Lead the process of collaboratively defining and establishing safety requirements with Dyson internal teams and ODM/JDM partners. Effectively manage product safety expectations and assessments to ensure compliance with these requirements, ultimately securing safety approval for production.
- Provide leadership and governance for product safety activities. Collaborate closely with Dyson internal teams and JDM partners to ensure comprehensive adherence to safety deliverables, recording and approval throughout the project life cycle.
- Ensure that safety considerations are included in product development decisions, providing continuous monitoring and reporting throughout the entire project life cycle.
- Advocate best practices for safety risk assessments in development and manufacturing processes.
- Independently manage multiple projects concurrently, ensuring strict compliance with all relevant safety requirements.
- Serve as the product safety representative, coordinating necessary actions directed by the Product Safety Committee in collaboration with Dyson internal teams and JDM partners.
- Adopt a proactive approach to designing and enhancing robust solutions, addressing technical challenges across projects.
- Act as a subject matter expert in the field of safety, sharing knowledge and mentoring engineers in methodologies, best practices, and standards.
- Proactively identify technical risks within projects, taking a lead role in influencing engineering teams to resolve issues and actively participating in the design and testing of engineering solutions.
Skills
- Possess a degree in a relevant engineering or science discipline, supplemented by post-graduate experience in an engineering role, preferably in safety or reliability.
- Demonstrate a robust industrial background in safety engineering and product safety, with proven experience in developing and managing safety cases and producing comprehensive safety reports.
- Proficient in developing safety plans, conducting FTA studies, creating safety requirement specifications, leading functional safety assessments, and employing HAZID/HAZOP techniques. Capable of formulating or reviewing verification and validation test procedures.
- Demonstrated experience working with JDM partners. Strong understanding of the RFI/RFP/RFQ process for procurement management.
- Exhibit technical expertise to independently review others' work and establish, compile, and maintain formal documentation like Safety Plans or Safety Cases at a high professional standard.
- Possess excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical information into clear, understandable content for diverse audiences, including JDM partners.
- Adaptable and responsive to changing priorities, with a strong capability to deliver results across projects with varying priorities and paces. Demonstrate a results-driven approach.
- Highly self-motivated with the ability to inspire and motivate others. Proactively foster a strong safety culture within the organization.
Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.
Skills Required
- Degree in a relevant engineering or science discipline
- Postgraduate experience in an engineering role, preferably in safety or reliability
- Industrial experience in safety engineering and product safety
- Experience developing and managing safety cases and comprehensive safety reports
- Experience developing safety plans, conducting FTA studies, creating safety requirements specifications, and leading functional safety assessments
- Experience applying HAZID and HAZOP techniques
- Experience formulating or reviewing verification and validation test procedures
- Experience working with JDM partners
- Understanding of RFI, RFP, and RFQ processes for procurement management
- Ability to independently review technical work and maintain formal safety documentation
- Excellent communication skills for explaining complex technical information to diverse audiences
- Ability to manage multiple projects and changing priorities
Dyson Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Dyson and has not been reviewed or approved by Dyson.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision offerings are broad, paired with company‑paid life and disability coverage, plus EAP, backup care, and wellness incentives. Employer‑funded healthcare dollars and premium‑discount or Lifestyle Spending Account options further enhance coverage value.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is consistently advertised on U.S. postings. This provides predictable retirement support across roles.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing programs, commuter benefits, and notable product discounts supplement core coverage. Wellness incentives and a Lifestyle Spending Account expand lifestyle support beyond medical plans.
Dyson Insights
What We Do
At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs over 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas
