Product Safety Engineer (all genders)

AIXTRON – Herzogenrath
## Your challenge - Product Compliance: Ensure semiconductor manufacturing equipment meets EU Machinery Regulation (EU 2023/1230), LVD, EMC, and SEMI standards. - Conformity Assessment: Conduct product conformity assessments following CE, UL, and SEMI safety standards, and comply with regional standards where AIXTRON operates. - Safety Requirements Management: Allocate and manage safety requirements at system, subsystem, and component level, ensuring traceability and consistency. - Risk Assessments: Conduct safety risk assessments in line with ISO 12100 and Chemical Risk Assessments for product development and modifications of existing product lines. - Reaction Analysis: Review and analyse exothermic reactions and explosive substances within chemical kinetics, reaction engineering, and process safety. Manage energy in equipment by assessing reaction enthalpy using thermodynamics and physical chemistry. - Process Safety Design: Develop safety strategies on interlock requirement for explosive limits and energetic materials, integrating energy management and hazard analysis on used component. - Validation Testing: Manage, support and conduct validation tests, managing SEMI S2 product conformity documentation. - Technical Consultation: Contribute to the design of gas mixing system and vacuum system, advising on safety requirements related to piping and instrumentation diagrams, electrical diagrams and control systems. - Interdepartmental Coordination: Collaborate and coordinate with interdisciplinary engineering teams, customers, suppliers, and certification bodies to ensure inherently safe design ## The skills needed - Education background: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Process Safety or a related field, or comparable qualifications. - Experience: More than 4 years of work experience in process safety, chemical kinetics and thermodynamics. - Certifications: Process safety or risk management certification is added advantage. - Technical Expertise: Experience in process safety management by implementing process safety principle to minimize risks associated with chemical handling. Review advanced thermodynamics for energy management and safety assessment. - Communication: Strong communication skills with confidence in presentations and technical consulting. - Teamwork and Adaptability: Highly motivated and adaptable team player with a strong analytical mindset and structured working style. Excellent organizational skills and a passion for interdisciplinary engineering projects. - Collaboration: Proven ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary and cross-project environments, thriving under tight deadlines in dynamic settings. - Team Development: Support the development and growth of the team while fostering a collaborative and productive work environment. - Languages: Fluency in English and/or German ## What you can expect from us - Flexible working hours: At AIXTRON, you can take a flexible approach to organizing your working day (without fixed core hours), work on the move, and switch between company office and mobile office. - Vacation: You will receive 30 vacation days by default. In addition, you can increase your annual leave through a salary conversion model. - Profit sharing: As an employee, you have the opportunity to participate in the company’s success and benefit from a profit-sharing scheme. - Health: We are committed to providing support for your physical and mental health, e.g., through regular health campaigns. - Personal development: It is important to us that you continue to evolve your skills, be it with the help of our own AIXTRON Academy or through personalized development programs. - Corporate Benefits: As part of our Corporate Benefits program, you benefit from exclusive discounts with numerous partner companies. - Retirement benefits and additional insurance: We support your retirement planning and offer capital-forming benefits as well as individual supplementary insurance options. - Catering: In our company cafeteria, you can enjoy subsidized meals as well as fresh seasonal fruit baskets. - Open corporate culture: We foster an open and respectful culture – first-name terms – that extends across all hierarchical levels. - Sustainability and mobility: We are committed to sustainability and provide EV charging stations for cars and bicycles, as well as convenient transport connections and free parking spaces. - Employee referral program: If you help attract new talent to AIXTRON, we will reward you generously through our employee referral program.