Product Safety Engineer - Hazardous Locations (New Graduates)

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BUILDING A WORLD CLASS TEAM STARTS WITH YOU

At the heart of CSA Group is a vision: making the world a better, safer, more sustainable place. It's been part of our mission for nearly one hundred years: from the first engineering standard for railway bridges developed in 1919, to more than 3,500 standards, codes & related products today.

Headquartered in Canada, with a global footprint of more than 30 labs and offices across Europe, Asia and North America, CSA Group tests, inspects and certifies a wide range of products - from every day househould items to leading edge technology-to meet exacting requirements for safety, performance and environmental impact.

Our employees take pride in making a difference in people's lives through the work that we do. We're looking for people like you to help make it happen.

Job Summary:

New Engineering Graduates Needed - Join CSA Group's Graduate Development Program

CSA Group's Graduate Development Program will provide you with the opportunity to gain the needed technical and project management skills required to become a Product Safety Engineer on our Hazardous Locations (HazLoc) team in our Edmonton office. The Product Safety Engineer role is critical to ensuring that our clients' products comply with global and regional safety and performance standards; this allows our clients to sell their products around the World. As an Engineer on the HazLoc team you will evaluate, test, and certify our clients' products to published international standards for suitability in potentially explosive atmospheres. Our clients' products are installed in locations such as refineries, petro-chemical facilities, and other classified areas.

Over the duration of the program, you will learn more about our HazLoc services and be mentored by our senior engineers for a 6-month period, including six to eight weeks, on location, with our CSA Training Academy instructors. The training will include a mix of classroom and practical hands-on experience in our training laboratory. The Graduate Development Program will provide you with the knowledge of national and international Hazardous Locations schemes, the necessary skills to apply technical requirements to those standards, and the project management skills to successfully meet our clients' needs.

Once you have successfully completed the Graduate Development Program, you will be assigned to one of our global HazLoc locations as a Product Safety Engineer where you will receive further mentoring and training support as you advance in your career with CSA Group.

If you are about to, or have recently graduated, are interested in meaningful work and making the world a better, safer, and more sustainable world, we would love to hear from you.

To learn more about CSA Group, please visit: https://www.csagroup.org/about-csa-group/careers/

What you will be doing:

• Ensure compliance with applicable safety requirements of design standards.
• Identify required tests, create test plan and prepare laboratory work orders.
• Review test results to determine compliance with the required tests.
• Conduct onsite evaluation and/or testing at clients' premises.
• Prepare reports, certificates of compliance and other related certification documentation for national, regional and international certification schemes.
• Complete and manage multiple projects in accordance with safety, quality, throughput and customer experience measures.
• Occasional travel for training and to visit clients.

Education and Experience needed:

• Recent graduate with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering.
• Co-op or internship experience is beneficial.

Skills needed:

• High level of interpersonal, communication and customer service skills and strong problem-solving ability.
• Strong organizational, time management and project management skills to complete tasks independently and efficiently.
• Must be self-motivated with a heightened sense of urgency to complete tasks and must be client-service focused.

CSA Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on any grounds stipulated by applicable laws. We are an organization where opportunities are based on skills and abilities, and differences are respected and valued. Please contact us at human.resources@csagroup.org if you require accommodation in the interview process.