Risk Engineer in Machine Safety

Do you want to work to prevent accidents and ensure that machines and production systems are safe to use? We are now looking for a Risk Engineer in Machine Safety to join our client's team!

Requirements for the Role

To thrive in this role, you need to have a burning interest in machine safety. Depending on your experience, tasks and projects can be adapted in complexity. You need to demonstrate and provide examples of your knowledge of risk management and industrial machines, either through work or education. As a person, you should enjoy working in a team and be curious to understand different clients' operations. You need to be communicative and take responsibility for your tasks.

Essential Requirements

• University degree in machine safety, such as mechanical engineering, mechatronics & automation, technical design, production technology, electrical engineering, or other relevant education.
• Knowledge of FMEA.
• Experience in industry.
• Driving license B.
• Fluent in Swedish & English, both spoken and written.

Desirable

• Work experience in risk assessment and risk management.
• Knowledge of the Machinery Directive.

About the Role

As a Risk Engineer in Machine Safety, you will work to create safe and sustainable machines and production environments for various clients together with your colleagues. You will have an advisory role and work both in structured projects and closely with clients, where you identify safety risks and improvement opportunities in their operations. The work is carried out in close collaboration with other disciplines and encompasses the entire project chain – from early stages in project planning and selection of machines to completed facilities and CE marking.

The role is technical, analytical, and practical, involving work with machine safety in industrial environments, primarily within process industry, manufacturing industry, and machine lines. Projects span the entire lifecycle of machines and production systems, focusing on preventing accidents, meeting legal requirements, and ensuring long-term safe solutions according to applicable regulations, such as the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC and the new Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230.

Examples of Tasks:

• Conduct risk analyses of machines and production lines.
• Identify and assess risks and propose technical and organizational safety measures.
• Work with safety solutions such as protective functions, emergency stops, and other risk-reducing measures.
• Prepare and review technical documentation and Declaration of Conformity (CE marking).
• Advise clients on machine safety, legislation, and preventive safety work.

The role offers the opportunity to work with many different clients and industries, build specialist competence in machine safety, and gradually take on greater responsibility in assignments.

Conditions

Start: as agreed.
Extent: Full-time, permanent.
Working hours: Office hours 8-17, flexible.
Location: Gothenburg.

Selection is ongoing, and the position may be filled before the application deadline.

About the Company

The company operates in risk, permits, and safety and offers services for clients in industry, infrastructure, and community building. They work with everything from risk assessments to environmental and permit issues, combining practical experience with technical expertise. Here, you will be part of a down-to-earth team with great commitment, where you will have the opportunity to develop in line with the business.

About Framtiden

Framtiden wants to make a difference by helping people find the right job and the right colleague. We specialize in recruiting the right talents for the right companies. As an employee at Framtiden AB, you can feel secure. All our services are covered by collective agreements, which provide you with contractual terms regarding vacation, salary, pension, sick leave, etc. As an employee at Framtiden, you will always have a consultant manager available to you throughout your employment period. The consultant manager's task is to help you develop in your professional role and ensure that you are happy in your workplace. For this position, you will initially be employed through us at Framtiden.