Specialist Functional Safety Product Engineer

Job Purpose

The Specialist Functional Safety Product Engineer shall be experienced in safety related product development and have control system/automation software domain experience.

Job Responsibilities

• Playing a key role in a multidiscipline team working on a safety related control system product development.
• Developing the product in accordance with IEC 61508 compliant and TUV approved Functional Safety Management plan.
• Creating product requirements specifications and be able to share the understanding among product development disciplines i.e., Software, Electronic and Electro-Mechanical.
• Using requirements management tools to capture, manage and trace requirements.
• Develop safety concepts and strategies to identify potential hazards and mitigate risks.
• Liaise with product development disciplines to ensure product requirements are understood and discipline designs are compliant with the product requirements.
• Analyze system architectures, identify safety requirements.
• Participate in product safety analysis i.e., FMEA, FMEDA, FMECA.
• Ensure Safety products comply with IEC 61508
• Follow-up and be able to interpret and apply industry standards (e.g., API 17A, 17F etc.) to the design and development processes, ensuring adherence throughout the lifecycle of a product.
• Define validation or test cases based on the Functional Safety requirements/criteria.
• Support in Verification and Validation activities as per TUV approved V&V plan.
• Responsible for performing Design reviews.
• Discuss technical safety and reliability aspects with the Customer and internal engineers and provide decision support.

Competence Requirements

• Master’s degree within relevant subject areas.
• Relevant experience may compensate for lack of formal education.
• Experience within functional safety in the energy sector or other industries.
• Familiarity with applicable standards, rules, and regulations for Safety products.
• Product development experience.
• Project execution experience is an advantage.

Additional Skills

Experience:

• Experienced in product functional safety development and certification activities.
• Experienced in control system designs and familiar with operational aspects.
• Experienced in sensor technology, logic solver, electrical boards.
• Practitioner in using requirements management tools like Polarion, Jama, IBM Doors.
• Certified practitioner in application of IEC 61508. Experience may compensate for lack of certification.

Knowledge:

• Safety engineering knowledge appropriate to the application for E/E/PE safety related systems.
• About the complex mix of hardware, software, human factors, and safety management systems.

Personal skills:

• Strong team player with the ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks.
• Passionate about control system product development
• The ability to work strategically, but also focus on details where relevant.
• Drive, tenacity and positive attitude to innovation and new experiences.
• Good communication skills; ability to explain concepts to other engineers.
• Good communication skills in both written and spoken English.
• Ability to work independently but also in teams.

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