Technical Engineer

Who is Kee Safety Inc?

Separating People from Hazards is our life's work. Kee Safety, Inc. is the North American business operation of Kee Safety, Ltd. in the United Kingdom. We maintain a strong sales presence here in the USA with our manufacturing and warehouse center headquartered in Buffalo, New York.

Kee Safety is the leading global supplier of safety systems and solutions. When you join the Kee Team, you are not only aligning yourself with the leading safety and fall prevention experts in North America but with people who are passionate about fall prevention, safety, and who care about their company and its customers.

At Kee Safety, we are always looking for driven, talented individuals to join our team and contribute to our mission of providing innovative safety solutions. Our company culture is built on collaboration, diversity, and a commitment to excellence, and we are proud to offer a range of exciting career opportunities in engineering, sales, marketing, operations, and more. If you're ready to take the next step in your career and make a meaningful impact in the safety industry, we invite you to apply and become a part of our team.

What Can We Offer You?

We are proud of our culture. We believe in our employees and understand that when they are engaged and happy - they will thrive and our business will grow.

Our corporate culture includes:

• A strong, collaborative work environment
• Training, training and more training
• Development programs created to empower our team
• Life-long friendships
• Our Kee Giving Sponsorship Program: Kee Safety will donate to community initiatives that employees support outside of work

Kee Safety provides some of the best benefits around:

• 401k plan with company match and profit sharing contributions
• A comprehensive benefits program with multiple plans to choose from

Summary:

With a clear understanding and focus on Kee Safety's strategic aims for providing technical support to the group business units, support the Technical Manager as required on other technical and quality matters, assist with the New Product Development Program to meet Kee Safety Group requirements. This position will be supporting internal business unit requests as the primary function and supporting other technical requests from the Technical Manager as needed.

Job Duties:

• Support the Business Units with technical advice/expertise relating to Kee Safety Group products
• Suggest changes/optimize existing technical issues with Kee Products
• Prepare technical reports on issues faced and send to the engineering department
• Support the Operations Manager and Technical Manager along with assistance from the Product Managers on any product testing as a result of legislation/standards changes which have an effect on Kee Safety Group products
• Coordinate all incoming requests from customers, prospects and internal customers that require detailing
• Support the Operations Department with technical related requests as needed
• Prepare technical solutions for incoming requests
• Prepare standard documents containing calculations (for commonly sold products)
• Work on different product drawings using AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor - 3D solid works and prepare BOM for complicated assemblies
• Assist with the development and maintenance of the parts catalogues and operation instruction manuals for the assigned products
• Support the Technical Manager in maintaining external approvals of Kee Safety Group products through any testing or auditing that is required
• Support the Technical Manager with customers and external sales and other technical matters
• Provide alternate solutions to customers in case any product installation issues on site
• Provide training to salespeople and technicians regarding different product knowledge and installations
• Become proficient with OSHA, IBC and Canadian OH&S standards and make sure product installation drawings sent to customers are safe and in compliance.
• Visit site and consult the customer engineers in case of complicated projects

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Structural/Mechanical/Production Engineering, Masters a plus
• Highly proficient in current 2D & 3D Solid Modelling in Solid works CAD Software along with knowledge of FEA
• Numerate and analytical skills, high attention to detail
• Knowledge in scaffolding and guard railing with an understanding of pipe/tube calculations for bending theory, to comply with latest standards a plus
• Ability to travel to work sites as needed
• 3-5 years of prior technical engineer experience is preferred

Individual characteristics

As the Technical Engineer, your attitude and aptitude are critical. Willingness and desire to learn new things will be a key factor in your success. Other important characteristics include:

• Strong technical skills
• Strong communicator - written and verbal
• Self-managed and able to hold self-accountable
• Proven ability to work to tight deadlines and achieve targets
• Team player but also capable of working on own initiative
• A passion for high quality work
• Proven record of working with internal and external customers

Special/Particular Requirements (safety, physical, etc)

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Testing products which would occasionally require some lifting up to 50lb typical
• A combination of occasional, walking, sitting, bending, climbing ladders when testing in the shop floor or on a customer site visit
• The employee may be required to visit jobsites where adherence to all safety regulations (wear appropriate PPE, etc.) is required

Join our team and grow with us, there is a world of possibilities here at Kee Safety, Inc.!

Kee Safety Inc., is an equal opportunity employer