RACE Functional Safety Engineer

About the job

RACE Functional Safety Engineer

Abingdon Rd, Culham, UK

Full-time

Department: RACE Operations

Salary: £49,396 to £52,293 (inclusive of MPP) + excellent benefits including outstanding pension

Confirmed Grade: Level 5

Site Location: UKAEA Culham, Oxfordshire

By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Are you interested in contributing and helping to shape the future of the world’s energy? If so, read on.

Fusion, the process that powers the Sun and Stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs. UKAEA are at the forefront of realising energy from fusion, working with industry and research partners to deliver the ground-breaking developments that will underpin tomorrow's fusion power stations with the aim of bringing fusion electricity to the grid.

As we work towards our mission and goals, UKAEA has devised values that capture the spirit of how we work. These values include being: Innovative, Committed, Trusted and Collaborative.

Who are we looking for?

The RACE Safety Engineer will deliver through-life safety support to project teams, providing insight into system risk, input into safety architectures and review of the built system. 

The Safety Engineer will have the opportunity to work on systems utilising cutting edge technology across a wide range of domains. Your work will support the development of internal safety management as well as influence approaches for managing safety risk in emerging systems. You will be chairing safety reviews throughout the lifecycle, supporting safety management process design and deployment. This role will also give you an opportunity to have ownership of safety-related aspects of assigned projects, acting as the Safety Subject Matter Expert (SME) within the wider team and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to accommodate and integrate safety among other system requirements.

If you can effectively articulate complex concepts to stakeholders, are capable of developing and leading junior team members as well as you are able to deliver work in cross-functional teams with a confident approach to problem-solving, then we would like to hear from you.

What will you be responsible for?

- Working alongside project teams to review system architectures and their associated PL/SILs

- Supporting safety management process design and deployment through training and outreach

- Leading 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

- Chairing risk management workshops; using techniques such as HazOp, 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

- Reviewing advanced technologies and emergent standards that may shape advances in safety engineering and advising on improvements

Please note that there is a potential for infrequent travel in support of commissioning activity.

Qualifications

Essential skills, experience and competence required

- Engineering/Technology degree or equivalent experience

- Proven experience in through-life delivery of safety critical systems

- Delivered systems to a recognised safety standard (i.e. 61508 or derivative)

- Extensive experience of the delivery of Functional safety/High Integrity systems to a recognised standard

- Proven ability to critically analyse technical drawings and specifications for mechatronic systems

- Demonstrable experience of working in a safety-critical environment and ability to produce high-quality work to deadlines

- Flexible working attitude with the ability to work as an individual or as a team member

What we offer

- A competitive salary 

- A culture committed to being fully inclusive, supported by a Being Inclusive Strategy and Inclusion Ambassadors

- An Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders, with a full calendar of health and wellbeing initiatives

- Flexible working options including family friendly policies 

- Emergency leave (paid)

- 30.5 days annual leave increased with length of service (including privilege days and 3 days between Christmas and New Year) plus bank holidays

- Wide range of career development opportunities (e.g professional registration, internal promotions, coaching and mentoring programme) 

- Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme 

- Annual corporate bonus scheme 

- Relocation allowance (if eligible)

We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly from individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, including nationality and citizenship, people with disabilities, (visible and hidden) and women. The Executive Team, with support from our EDI ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’ (EDI) partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, is actively promoting EDI and taking steps to increase the diversity of our people through reinforcing best practice in recruitment and selection, and revaluating approaches where it is clear we can remove barriers to success. We are easily accessible by car and are a 10-minute walk from Culham Railway Station in Oxfordshire.

Please be advised that this vacancy is due to close on 3/12/2021. We may close earlier than this date if large or sufficient numbers of applications are received.

Please note, all employees working at the UK Atomic Energy Authority will be required to complete an online Disclosure Certificate application as part of their clearance – The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks will show the details of all current criminal convictions (convictions considered unspent under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974) or will confirm that there are no such convictions.