Principal Engineer - Safety and Environmental Engineering

Cumbria  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Key Responsibilities

  • 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 discipline
  • 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 measures.

Key skills & qualifications

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;

What we're looking for in you

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Well-developed analytical/problem solving/decision making skills.

Strong organisational skills who is adaptable in a fast-paced environment.

Stakeholder management skills.

Location: Barrow

Rate: £60 per hour

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
From
aap3
Published at
19.10.2019
Project ID:
1837844
Contract type
Freelance
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