AESC is looking to add an Equipment Safety Engineer - EHS to our team in Florence, SC  

• Full-Time
• On-site

About AESC US LLC 

AESC is a global leader in the development and manufacturing of high-performance batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage systems. The company's leading-edge technology and reliability are enabling and accelerating the transition to clean energy solutions. Through rapid expansion, AESC batteries will soon power more than 1,000,000 electric vehicles for the world's top automakers. AESC is headquartered in Japan and has battery manufacturing locations in Japan, China, UK, France, Spain, and the U.S.

AESC Mission

Our mission is to solve the challenges for a sustainable future. Together, we can make a meaningful impact. 

About the Role

The Staff Safety Engineer will play a key role in developing a site Safety Engineering team. This candidate will provide safety engineering technical support for engineering design, construction, and sustainable operations. Engineer focus areas include Equipment Safety, Process Safety, and Ergonomics. The Safety Engineer will support all EHS site initiatives.

What You Will Do 

• Provides technical environmental, safety, and health support and information to production and corporate personnel.  
• Supports Process Safety Management (PSM) Program and owns execution of high-quality risk assessments & risk management deliverables.
• Supports facilitates risk studies including: PHA, HazOp/LOPA, HAZID, and other risk assessment methods. 
• Facilitates reliability studies including: FTA, PFMEA, DFMEA
• Leads design engineering technical deep dives for green field and brown field engineering projects.
• Drives scoping & implementation of engineering safety/ hazard mitigation design strategies. 
• Lead efforts for modeling scenarios and working with external consultants/ partners as needed to conduct modeling such as CFD, FDS, PHAST, Canary, iPRISM, ALOHA, and other risk modeling tools.   
• Leads follow-through reviews/coordination to ensure identified risks & mitigation efforts have been included in engineering design. 
• Develop standardization of equipment safety specifications.  
• Perform machinery safety risk assessment (MRA), equipment buyoffs, and support safety controls change requests.
• Review equipment design to ensure equipment and tooling adhere to ANSI, ISO, RIA, EN, NFPA, GB, and OSHA equipment, machinery, and electrical safety standards components that could be affected by new or modified equipment.
• Perform Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) to ensure manufacturers have incorporated applicable ANSI and OSHA standards into the equipment.
• Perform (SAT) Site acceptance testing, to ensure equipment is safe for operation.
• Conduct safety functionality testing on newly installed or modified equipment to ensure the safety control devices perform as intended by the safety logic.
• Lead routine Safety Audits to ensure machinery is operated as designed and all safety devices are functioning as intended and identify opportunities to mitigate risks.
• Implement project management tools to follow equipment from design through start of production.
• Uses ergonomic guidelines to address current manufacturing injury concerns and future model planning.   
• Assist in chemical approval requests and updating HMIS permit accordingly. 
• Ensure compliance with Local, State, and Federal health and safety regulations.
• Supports overall EHS site initiatives. 
• Understands and follows all standards of IATF16949 and VDA 6.3 quality standards.
• Understands and follows all standards of ISO14001 environmental standards.
• Performs all other related assignments (including special projects) as required in a professional and cooperative manner.

What You Need

The requirements listed below are minimum requirements for the job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities who are otherwise qualified to safely perform the essential functions of the job, unless such accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the Company.

• A minimum of three years in an engineering discipline. 
• A minimum of two years of experience supporting safety, health and environmental operations in a manufacturing/