Job Description
The salary for this role is £56,596 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance).Onsite working is expected for 3 days each week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working.
This role can be based at any of the following sites: Culham, Oxfordshire
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.
The Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Senior Functional Safety Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in you will integrate within multi-disciplinary teams to deliver safety solutions to advanced mechatronic projects. The Safety Engineer role will provide expert insight into system risk, identifying problems before they arise and mitigating them through delivery of safety requirements and engineered solutions.
This role will also support local safety management activities including; safety promotion, process development and independent audit, as well as the management and coaching of junior members of the team
Additional Responsibilities:
* Ownership of safety-related aspects of assigned projects, acting as the Safety SME within the wider team.
* Lead projects through the full Safety lifecycle including compliance with standards, cross-disciplinary advise, SIF/SIS design and requirements setting.
* Leading reviews of system risk through the assessment of built systems, technical specifications, drawings, built equipment and peer review.
* Creation, development and maintenance of the project technical file.
* Chairing risk management workshops to lead DRA; using techniques such as FMEA, Event and Fault Tree analysis to interrogate system design ensuring system risk is captured and mitigated as early as possible in the project lifecycle.
* Through-life safety management of systems; monitoring in-service near misses, review of Health, Usage and Monitoring data for unsafe trends.
* Researching advanced technologies and emergent standards that may shape advances in safety engineering.
* Collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to accommodate and integrate safety among other system requirements.
* Positively contribute to organizational safety management through internal safety communication, training and workshops.
* Responsible for the management and development of staff in the Functional Safety Group; including agreeing personnel development plans and areas of professional development, providing job performance feedback, setting objectives, completing staff APS reports and ensuring that all the relevant UKAEA mandatory training requirements are completed.
Qualifications
Essential Requirements:
* Engineering or technology degree, or equivalent experience.
* Experience delivering high Integrity systems to a recognised standard.
* Proven ability to critically analyse technical drawings and specifications for mechatronic systems.
* Able to produce high quality work to deadlines.
* Experience of working in a safety-critical environment
* Flexible working attitude with the ability to work as an individual or as a team member.
* Experience of working in a cross functional team.
* Able to coach less experienced staff.
* Experience of working in a cross functional team.
* Experience in people management and coaching.
Desirable
* Holds recognised Engineering safety qualification (FSEng, CMSE etc.)
* Experience in systems or requirements engineering
* Experience in people management
Additional Information
A full list of our benefits can be found here
UKAEA's mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We are under-represented from some groups and so want to encourage applications in particular from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African backgrounds and from Pakistani and Bangladeshi British backgrounds. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
UK Atomic Energy Authority is committed to being accessible. Please email talent@ukaea.uk if you have any questions or require help or adjustments to compete on a fair basis, for example, changes to the way we interview or share information.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.