Manager, Safety Certification & Standards

📋 Description

• Own the standards picture across products and markets: IEC 61508, ISO 13849, IEC 62061, and sector
• Serve as named Functional Safety Manager: own safety plan, lifecycle phases and gate criteria
• Hold gates and be accountable at every lifecycle phase for whether evidence is adequate and
• Author safety manuals and subsystem data packs: IEC 61508-2/-3 Annex D content, PFHD and
• Own certification body relationships end-to-end: scope, submission, findings, and surveillance, and
• Run regulatory watch: EU Machinery Regulation readiness ahead of January 2027, standards revisions

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years in functional safety as a practising engineer (embedded, systems, hardware, or
• At least one product taken through third-party certification end-to-end, personally owning a
• Deep fluency in IEC 61508 parts 1–3, including what Annex D requires of a safety manual and how
• Working knowledge of ISO 13849 and IEC 62061 from the supplier side: what an integrator needs from
• Judgement to review safety analysis critically: challenge diagnostic coverage claims, failure-rate
• Comfort with influence rather than line authority; no direct reports; authority from safety plan