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.