Product Safety Engineer Vacancy at Sandvik, Tampere

Sandvik is seeking a full-time Product Safety Engineer for its Surface Drilling Division at the Myllypuro factory site in Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland. The post suits an engineering or science graduate who combines product-safety and liability experience with knowledge of machinery-safety regulations. Clear technical writing, professional English, and the ability to explain complex safety matters are central to the work described for this position. It particularly suits a candidate who can communicate safety matters clearly while supporting technical development projects.

Based within Sandvik’s Surface Drilling R&D organization, the Product Safety Engineer will contribute to the safety work surrounding surface drill rigs intended for different market areas. Applicants whose background includes coordinating technical assessments, managing several priorities, and collaborating across specialist functions may find the remit relevant. The vacancy calls for a practical communicator able to balance activities in a changing project environment. Its published scope combines structured safety coordination with documentation, training and cross-functional collaboration across the division’s stated project and product-safety work.

Opportunity Details

Overview of the Vacancy

Location, Sector, and Role Context

This Product Safety Engineer vacancy sits in the Surface Drilling Division within Sandvik’s Mining Business Area. Its core purpose is to help ensure that surface drill rigs meet applicable safety requirements in every market area for which they are intended. Project work includes coordinating risk assessments, functional-safety analyses and product-safety reviews during new-product development. The engineer also follows safety requirements and standards across market areas and internationally, translating that information into work that supports the division’s product-safety activities. Experience in product safety and liability, alongside a university degree in Engineering or Science, forms the stated foundation for the role. Alongside these project activities, the role covers incident management, customer safety documentation and internal product-safety training.

Day-to-day responsibilities extend from process development and incident management to customer-facing documentation and internal training. The role requires close cooperation with Engineering, Sales Areas, Project Management, Product Line Management and Technical Services, so the advertised profile emphasises communication, collaboration and presentation ability. A successful applicant will need to produce clear technical documentation in professional-level English while making sound priorities among multiple objectives. Knowledge of machinery-safety regulations is required. Functional-safety analysis experience and familiarity with mining-safety regulations are presented as advantageous rather than essential background. The stated work location is the Myllypuro factory site in Tampere.

About the Employer: Sandvik (Surface Drilling Division, Sandvik Group)

Organization and Relevant Services

Verified Employer Overview

Sandvik is a global, high-tech engineering group serving the manufacturing, mining and infrastructure industries. Its offerings span the customer value chain and draw on research and development, customer insights, industrial-process knowledge and digital-solutions knowledge. The group was founded in 1862 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. This vacancy concerns a role in the Mining Business Area’s Surface Drilling Division, linking the advertised engineering work to Sandvik’s activity in mining and infrastructure equipment, engineering and industrial technology. The advertised role itself is located in Tampere, in Finland’s Pirkanmaa region.

Across mining and infrastructure, Sandvik provides equipment, tools, parts, services and technical solutions for mining, rock excavation and rock processing. Its stated offering includes automated and electric mining equipment as well as eco-efficient rock processing. The group also supplies equipment, tools, services, digital solutions and technologies intended to advance sustainable development in these fields. For the Product Safety Engineer, that industrial context is directly relevant because the remit concerns safety requirements for surface drill rigs in their intended market areas. It situates the advertised safety remit within the equipment work described for mining and infrastructure.

Professional Setting and Role Context

Work Environment, Operations, and Facilities

Sandvik’s wider portfolio also includes metal-cutting tools, tooling systems and digital solutions for component manufacturing, together with industrial metrology technologies and metal powder. The group operates through four business areas, whose divisions are responsible for research and development, production and sales of their products and services. Its official overview identifies Mining, Rock Processing, Machining and Intelligent Manufacturing among those business areas. The Product Safety Engineer will be part of the Surface Drilling R&D organization rather than a general group-wide position, working from the Myllypuro factory site in Tampere. These business areas frame a specialist structure in which divisions undertake their products’ research and development, production and sales.

Research and development is part of Sandvik’s stated operating model, alongside customer insights and industrial-process and digital-solutions knowledge. The group reports active patents and investment in research and development, while its products-and-services information lists ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 among management-system certifications. For this vacancy, Sandvik describes modern and safe factory work facilities in Myllypuro, Tampere. The employer also lists an inclusive corporate culture focused on sustainable development and professional development through its training and development programmes. The company describes customer solutions including sustainable mining, eco-efficient rock processing and efficient sustainable manufacturing. The advertised role applies within the Surface Drilling R&D organization.

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Open Positions

1. Product Safety Engineer

Official title: Product Safety Engineer

Location: Myllypuro, Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland | Employment information: Full-time; Myllypuro factory site in Tampere

The role brings together product-development safety work, regulatory awareness and communication with both internal colleagues and customers. In new-product-development projects, the Product Safety Engineer coordinates structured safety activities and then helps embed appropriate product-safety processes within the Surface Drilling Division. Attention is also required when incidents arise, when safety rules change across market areas, and when information must be documented or taught internally. The stated remit therefore suits a professional who can make complex safety subjects understandable while collaborating with several functions. The position also demands attention to requirements and standards across international and market-area contexts.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate risk assessments, functional-safety analyses and product-safety reviews for new-product-development projects.
• Handle incidents connected with product safety for the Surface Drilling Division.
• Collect and follow safety requirements and standards that apply internationally and across individual market areas.
• Design and put into practice product-safety processes for the Surface Drilling Division.
• Prepare customer documentation that addresses product-safety matters.
• Provide product-safety training for internal audiences.
• Work in close partnership with Engineering, Sales Areas, Project Management, Product Line Management and Technical Services.
• Help ensure that Sandvik surface drill rigs satisfy safety requirements in every intended market area.

Qualifications

• A university Master's or Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science is required.
• Applicants need work experience in product safety and liability.
• Knowledge of machinery-safety regulations is a stated requirement.
• Professional-level English and the ability to produce clear technical documentation are required; no driving-licence requirement is stated.
• The role requires strong communication, collaboration and presentation ability.
• Applicants must be able to balance multiple objectives and activities and prioritise effectively in a dynamic environment.
• Preferred: Experience with functional-safety analysis is advantageous.
• Preferred: Familiarity with mining-safety regulations is advantageous.
• Preferred: Sandvik welcomes varied backgrounds and career paths, including candidates who do not meet every listed requirement.

Skills and Competencies

• Risk-assessment capability is used to coordinate safety work during new-product development.
• Functional-safety analysis supports the project reviews described for surface drilling products.
• Product-safety review and incident-management skills are applied across the division’s safety activities.
• Knowledge of safety requirements and standards supports work across intended market areas.
• Product-safety process-development ability is needed to establish and implement divisional practices.
• Technical-documentation skill is used to create clear safety-related material for customers.
• Internal-training capability supports the delivery of product-safety learning within the organisation.
• Communication, collaboration and clear presentation help connect the engineering, sales, project, product-line and technical-service functions.
• Prioritisation in a dynamic environment helps balance the role’s multiple objectives and activities.

Benefits and Employment Information

• Sandvik lists professional development through its training and development programmes.
• The employer describes its employee benefits as good, without a detailed itemisation in the vacancy.
• Sandvik describes an inclusive corporate culture focused on sustainable development.
• This Product Safety Engineer position is full-time at the Myllypuro factory site in Tampere, and the vacancy does not publish a salary.

Application Guidance

Prepare a Focused Application

CV, Evidence, Documents, and Interview Preparation

As general preparation guidance, an applicant may map previous product-safety work to the vacancy’s main themes before drafting the application. Examples can be selected to show how risk assessments, safety reviews or functional-safety analysis were coordinated, how machinery-safety regulations were interpreted, and how competing activities were prioritised. It can also be useful to prepare a concise explanation of a technical document created for a specialist or customer audience. These are preparation suggestions, not additional employer requirements, and should be presented accurately rather than expanded beyond the applicant’s experience. Where genuine experience is available, a candidate may also note customer documentation or internal training that made safety information usable.

For interview preparation, candidates may organise examples that demonstrate collaboration with engineering, project, product-management, commercial or technical-service colleagues. A clear account of handling a product-safety incident, monitoring a requirement or standard, or delivering internal safety training could help explain relevant experience if such examples are genuine. Applicants can also review how their degree, product-safety and liability background, English technical-writing ability, and knowledge of machinery safety relate to the published role. This is general guidance; the vacancy does not set further interview tasks, licences or supporting credentials beyond the stated application materials. Candidates may also prepare concise, truthful examples of balancing several safety activities when priorities changed.

• Prepare an English CV that accurately outlines Engineering or Science education and relevant product-safety and liability experience.
• Draft an English cover letter that connects genuine machinery-safety knowledge with the Surface Drilling Division role.
• Select concise examples of risk assessment, product-safety review or functional-safety analysis work where applicable.
• Prepare examples showing clear technical documentation, collaboration and presentation of complex safety subjects.
• Include a salary request, as instructed in the vacancy, without suggesting that a published salary range exists.
• Keep the cover letter available to attach again when the portal prompts for the CV upload.

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How to Apply

Submit Your Application Through the Verified Route

Apply Through the Official Employer Portal

Use the official employer application portal reached by the button below to submit an English CV and cover letter for the Product Safety Engineer role. The vacancy asks applicants to include a salary request and to attach the cover letter again when prompted during the CV upload. Applications are handled through the portal rather than by email. A 10-second countdown appears before the final link.