Description
Principal Engineer - Safety and Environmental Engineering
Job Description:
The following activities are those that may be carried out in full or part Dependent on the role;
- To undertake functional design and/or provide specialist advice and qualification of their scope of responsibility and provide evidence for acceptance and fitness for purpose
- To confirm beyond reasonable doubt by review, surveillance and audit, that those assumptions underpinning engineering data, analysis methodologies, and interpretation of results have been validated
- To produce evidence in support of qualification, legislative requirements and safety justifications and provide specialist support for associated activities
- To contribute to identification and rapid closure of issues emerging from all product life cycle stages and to manage the resulting change embodiment activities
- To liaise with both internal and external customers as required ensuring that their requirements are adequately supported and that their needs are fully considered and incorporated where appropriate and agreed
- To undertake peer reviews or checking/verification tasks as directed
- To provide realistic programme status, identify problem areas and implement agreed recovery plans
- To define the qualification obligations for the assurance hold points during build, test and commissioning
- Provide assurance to the Design Authority as to the adequacy and robustness of the Safety Case and supporting documentation
- To provide support to the Certificate of Design activities appropriate to the disciplinea
- To articulate and present complex technical argument clearly, logically and simply
- To be able to access, have a clear understanding of and apply the Quality and HS&E Management System documentation eg Process Instructions, Workmanship Standards, Risk Assessments etc. applicable to your particular work scope and to obey all HS&E rules and control measure
Requirements:
Degree qualified at or working towards CEng and dedicated with attention to detail
Experience in the following safety techniques:
- Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA);
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA);
- Event Tree Analysis (ETA);
- Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA);
- Accident Sequence Modelling;
- Fault Schedules;
- Hazard & Operability Analysis (HAZOP);
- Zonal Hazard Analysis (ZHA).
- Experience in using safety standards and guidance: eg IEC61508, DO178, DEF-STAN-00-56, ARP-4761;
- Setting integrity requirements (eg SIL, DAL);
- Providing/eliciting compliance evidence to standards and requirements;
- Dealing with Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) equipment;
- Dealing with Software of Unknown Pedigree (SOUP).
Experience of requirements:
- Developing Safety Functional Requirements (SFRs);
- Deriving safety requirements on systems, components and testing from safety analyses;
- Setting Availability, Reliability & Maintainability (ARM) requirements
- Providing/eliciting compliance evidence to requirements;
- Accounting for time at risk for requirements.
AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.