Product Safety Engineer (all genders) in 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 subsidised 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.

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