Safety equipment maker spanning gas detection, PPE and connected solutions
MSA designs and manufactures worker safety equipment, from gas and flame detection to fall, head and respiratory protection. Its stack pairs hardware engineering tools (Altium, Cadence Allegro, SolidWorks, LabVIEW) with a cloud software layer on AWS Lambda, Kinesis, Snowflake and dbt, a sign that connected-device data is now core to the product. Adoption of MES, IIoT, cobots and SAP Subscription Billing points to factory automation and recurring software revenue.
MSA - The Safety Company is a publicly traded manufacturer of safety products headquartered in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, founded in 1914. Its portfolio covers gas and flame detection, thermal imaging cameras, head, eye, face, hearing, fall and respiratory protection, plus safety training. The company has 1,001–5,000 employees and hires across North America, Latin America, Europe, North Africa and Asia, including Germany, France, Mexico, Peru, Morocco, China, Poland and Malaysia. Hiring spans engineering, manufacturing, sales and support, reflecting a business that both builds and services physical safety equipment.
MSA runs SAP and SAP IBP for operations, Salesforce for sales, and AWS (Lambda, Kinesis, ECR), PostgreSQL, Snowflake and dbt for software, with Angular, TypeScript and Node.js. Hardware teams use Altium, Cadence Allegro and SolidWorks.
MSA hires in the United States, Germany, France, Italy, Poland, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Peru, Morocco, China, the Philippines and Malaysia, mainly in engineering, manufacturing, sales and support.
Current work includes new product development, including fire service gear, verification and validation of new instruments, connected solutions setup, FireGrid onboarding, and manufacturing cost time studies.
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