Product Safety Engineer

Business Unit Automation is the home of AutoMine® - the world-leading solution for autonomous mining - and Newtrax - the world leader in collision avoidance and operations management solutions for underground mining - and Universal Field Robots UFR, a fast-growing Australia-based provider of autonomous interoperable solutions for the surface mining and underground mining markets.

Our hubs are located in Tampere (Finland), Montreal (Canada) and Brisbane (Australia) where we focus on developing fully automated and robotic mining technologies for mobile machinery, and safety solutions including collision avoidance system. Our overriding aim is to make mining safer and more sustainable for the future. We work closely together with our Sandvik Mining sales areas to serve our customers across the globe, striving for the highest level of service and support.

We are now looking for a self-driven and collaborative R&D Product Safety Engineer to join Business Unit Automation and support our AutoMine® product family. In this role, you will be at the heart of making our automation solutions safe, reliable and compliant. You will focus especially on functional safety and product safety, supporting both product development and customer project teams, and helping turn safety requirements, standards and regulations into practical daily work. The position is based in Tampere, Finland at our home office in Tulli Business Park located in the city center.

Your role will have a strong focus on functional safety and product safety in automation development projects. You will work closely with R&D teams, technical product owners and customer projects to make sure safety requirements are understood, planned and implemented in practice. Your work will include supporting risk assessments, safety concepts, functional safety activities, safety documentation, technical files and verification evidence. You will also help our teams understand how relevant safety regulations and standards appl