Senior Safety Engineers – Tool Engineering

Posted:
6/22/2026, 1:14:16 AM

Location(s):
Brookfield, Wisconsin, United States ⋅ Wisconsin, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Mechanical Engineering

Sr Safety Engineer

Job Description:

Senior Safety Engineers – Tool Engineering

13135 West Lisbon Road, Brookfield, WI 53005

Job Duties

  • Define safety requirements as a member of a cross-functional design team. Contribute to the development and qualification of new products.
  • Lead Hazard Analysis Reviews with cross-functional engineering teams to perform risk assessments of concepts, designs, and products.
  • Advise Project Leaders, Product Managers, Design Engineers, and Reliability Engineers regarding safety requirements including tests and design constraints to minimize risk of injury and property damage.
  • Effectively communicate and motivate up, down, and across the organization to a diverse range of technical and non-technical team members.
  • Set direction for safety activities on assigned categories based on industry safety standards, product rules, and product regulations.
  • Lead Product Safety Team efforts for Hydraulic (Crimping & Cutting) and other Plumbing and Electrical product development.  Assess organizational capacity to support current and future projects in this category.
  • Mentor and onboard new safety engineers. May manage project team members.
  • Review embedded system designs.
  • Conduct product design and construction reviews. Review test results and determine acceptability.
  • Review operator's manuals, on-product markings, and other technical communications.

Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, related engineering field, or the foreign degree equivalent and 2 years of relevant experience as a Safety Engineer, or alternate related acceptable occupation; OR Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, related engineering field, or the foreign degree equivalent and 5 years of relevant experience as a Safety Engineer, or alternate related acceptable occupation.

Work or academic experience must have included:

1. Handling product safety activities, regulatory listings design of Hydraulic (Crimping & Cutting) Power Tools & Accessories, Plumbing & Electrical related power tools or consumer products.

2. Risk-Based Hazard Analysis.

3. Performing and reviewing failure mode and effects analysis.

4. Fault Tree Analysis.

5. Thermodynamic Analysis.

6. EC/UL 62841 (Power Tools), UL 1976 (Crimp Tools for Use with Connecting Devices) and UL 486A-486B (Wire Connectors) Standards.

7. Electrical Circuit Analysis.

8. Statistical Analysis and Probability Modeling, including Monte Carlo Analysis.

10% of domestic and international travel required.

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Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.