Senior Product Safety Specialist

Job Description

Diablo Tools Inc. is expanding our team and are looking for a highly motivated, driven, and detail-oriented Senior Product Safety Specialist. A central function between engineering, regulatory compliance, packaging design, and legal liability, the Senior Product Safety Specialist will oversee product safety across all phases of the Time-to-Market launch lifecycle. This position will review on-tool hardware safety, audit packaging and marketing artwork, interpret evolving legal and regulatory standards, and deliver concise, legally defensible safety guidance in a fast-paced environment.

Packaging, Artwork and Warning Label Compliance

• Packaging & Artwork Audits - Collaborate with packaging and graphic design teams to review and approve packaging artwork, warning panels, icons, and instructional text, ensuring adherence to legal mandates and internal brand requirements.
• Warning Design & Risk Detection: Draft compliant warning labels and mentor teams on standards while meticulously catching fine-print inconsistencies, technical contradictions, or subtle wording that could introduce legal exposure.

Product Safety Review and Risk Assessment

• Hazard & Risk Analysis - Analyze new product designs, prototypes, and power tool accessories to identify foreseeable user hazards, evaluate risk severity, and establish proactive countermeasures.
• TTM Launch Governance - Create, update, and maintain formal Product Safety Review documentation through the development lifecycle to ensure every product launch is fully vetted.
• Decision-Making Under Ambiguity - Comfortably make decisive, legally defensible risk determinations even with incomplete data, crafting concise, impactful warnings that provide comprehensive coverage.

Testing & Evaluation

• Test Report Analysis - Define qualification testing protocols and critically analyze internal and third party testing reports to confirm product safety compliance
• Field Investigations - Support investigations into customer feedback, warranty returns, and field safety inquiries to drive continuous product safety improvements.

Regulatory Tracking & Legal Partnership

• Standards Monitoring - Stay up-to-date on evolving regulatory frameworks and landmark liability court rulings, in close collaboration with corporate legal.
• Marketing & Media Review - Audit product photography, videography, demonstrations, and marketing copy to ensure all imagery portrays reasonably safe tool operation.

Cross-Functional Leadership and Process Agility

• High-Volume Multi-Tasking - Effectively prioritize safety reviews across multiple product categories under tight launch schedules
• Best-Practice Alignment – Interface with safety peers across business units to exchange best practices.
• Team Training – Train and advise New Product Development team, engineers, and designers on safety workflows, hazard mitigation strategies and compliance fundamentals

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering – Mechanical, Electrical, Safety, Quality or Related
• Progressive experience in product safety engineering, regulatory compliance, quality engineering, or new product development for power tools, cutting tools, or power tool accessories.
• Strong knowledge of North American safety frameworks and standards organizations.
• Hands-on understanding of power tools, saw blades, abrasives, and cutting accessories, including realistic awareness of how professionals and consumers operate tools in real-world environments.
• Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to spot subtle errors in dense packaging layouts, regulatory texts, and instructional guides.
• Highly organized and disciplined to maintain audit-ready safety records within rapid development cycles.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to collaborate across departments and stakeholders.

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Additional Information

Diablo Tools Inc. is committed to putting “People First”. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, dental, and vision plans; health savings accounts (HSA); flexible spending accounts; 401(K) retirement plan with a generous employer match; wellness programs; life insurance; short- and long-term disability insurance; paid time off; parental leave, adoption assistance; and reimbursement of education expenses.

Diablo Tools and the Robert Bosch Tool Corporation are proud supporters of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) Initiatives

• FIRST Robotics (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)

• AWIM (A World In Motion)

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability / veterans

Indefinite U.S. Work authorized individuals only.  Future sponsorship for work authorization unavailable.

Safety Sensitive Position

Learn More: https://www.diablotools.com/company/careers

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