Staff Safety Service Engineer

The Job Responsibilities

Draeger is hirirng a Staff Safety Service Engineer to work hybrid out of our Houston, TX office.

The Staff Safety Engineer is responsible to manage engineering design, applications and quotations development for relevant applications for pre-sales activities.  Specific responsibility to work closely with Business Development, Regional Sales, Manufacturing Reps, and End-Users and to design complete complex process applications in a variety of vertical markets to include Oil & Gas, Chemical, Pharmaceuticals, and Food & Beverage.

Main Responsibilities:

• Work within a team of engineers to produce high-quality deliverables during the develop life safety solutions, enhancements, and improvements by working with sales and interacting with end users to gain an understanding of end-user processes, hazards, occupancy, and alarm actions in order to design a compliant life safety system that meets or exceeds local code requirements.  Independently diagnosed problems.  Provide technical leadership to quotation teams.
• Coordinate activities of other engineers and guide the successful, timely completion of quotations, proposals and other key deliverables.  Operates as a leader of the cross-functional Draeger teams (e.g. engineers working on quotations), working toward common goals to solve problems and gaining support for product modifications in support of general customer needs,
• Responsible for making sure that our solutions meet or exceed the technical requirements of the customer.  Leads the process for review and understanding of end-users Fire and Gas philosophy and “Cause & Effect” matrices and translate them into the appropriate solutions.
• Designs and develops products and solutions working independently.  Handles all but the most significant projects with no direct supervision. Maintain technical ownership of the process along with other members of the Engineering Department. Ensures process discipline and produce results on schedule. Support scheduling & planning of assigned subsystem prototype builds, verification, and validation.  Accomplish project responsibilities on time and with quality.
• Contribute technical insight and expertise to program planning, strategic planning and department-wide process improvement initiatives. Specifically, responsible for the final review and sign off on final system configuration drawings and documentation to support submittals to the authority having jurisdiction (AHJ).
• Assist in team building and mentoring junior engineers by providing on-going technical guidance, review and assessment of development assignments.
• Comply with all internal SOPs and F&G industry regulations. Develop and/or improve development processes, procedures and protocols.
• Lead design reviews for related systems to the products involved.  Work closely with relevant engineers to produce accurate quotes, drawings, and other deliverables in order to support the sales objectives.
• Perform other duties as needed and assigned.

Your Qualifications

• BS Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science; preferred is a similar degree with a greater focus on FGDS (e.g. Fire Protection Engineering); Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum 10 years relevant work experience; 10+ years preferred in a technical or sales environment.  Also requires demonstrable specific experience in all or most of the following:
  •    Experience working directly with end customers is strongly desired
  •    Experience in product development for regulated environments (e.g.; EN61508 SIL, FDA, IEC 60601 and other IEC standards, UL, CE, CSA, etc.)
  •    Experience with safety related regulations
  •    Experience with the development of gas detection systems is a significant advantage, but not required
  •    Experience with globally distributed R&D organizations is desired