Senior Product Safety Specialist – Diablo Tools

THE BEST NEED THE BEST.

Known as "The Game Changers”, Diablo Tools Inc. (www.DiabloTools.com) elevates the market by providing Best in the World and Best for Our World cutting tool and power tool accessory solutions for professional users.

With innovation at the forefront of everything we do, Diablo Tools continues to “raise the bar” by bringing the most advanced technology to the portable tool market that increases quality and performance and saves our users time and money.

Diablo Tools is committed to providing first-class technology that dominates the jobsite but also makes it safer. Our innovation, however, is not the only thing that sets us apart from the competition – our people do, too.

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.

Are you hungry, ready for immediate impact, excited for a challenge? Change your future forever by joining the Best!

Additional Information

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)

Pay and benefits

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.