Newell Brands

Product Safety Engineer

Newell Brands

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Huntersville • North Carolina • United States

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About the role

  • Supports Legal, R&D and the overall business from a product integrity standpoint
  • 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
  • Work with the team to understand and implement historical best practices, design and warnings as needed
  • Challenge teams on inherently more robust designs intended to reduce consumer misuse
  • 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

Requirements

  • 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
  • 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.
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
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Hard Skills & Tools
Quality EngineeringR&DData coordinationData collectionDatabasesSix SigmaLeanFMEAProject management
Soft Skills
Problem solvingCritical thinkingAnalytical skillsHigh motivationCuriosityAssertivenessFlexibilityAdaptabilitySelf-directedResult oriented