Product Functional Safety Engineer

Job Description:

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Support crossfunctional teams on functional safety matters across the entire Electrolyzers business cycle.
• Work with process instrument & and control systems owners to address functional safety and process requirements.
• Develop and maintain functional safety documentation like functional safety management plan FSMP safety control narrative SCN safety requirements specifications SRS.
• Develop functional safety studies resulted in the description of SIFs PFDs values & SIL levels and the associated RRF safe states demand modes and bypass theory resulted in creation of safety requirement specifications SRS.

• Perform as a key participant in HAZOP/HAZID and Risk Assessment workshops.
• Perform safety analysis and SIL calculations. Carry out SIL determination through application of LOPA methodology and determine target SIL. Identify hazards and quantify risks resulted in risk reduction factor RRF maintaining the concept of ALARP).
• Perform SIL verification and calculate for and specify SIFs PFD & HFT architecture to confirm whether the classified SIFs in the current architecture meet the required/target SILs.
• Review and approve work products from a functional safety perspective and participate at technical reviews and workshops.

• Conduct / carry out functional safety audits assessments and support thirdparty audits and assessments.
• Support the development of best practice procedures for functional safety activities.
• Provide input on changes affecting functional safety including the Impact Analysis.
• Provide integrity and enforce appropriate standards in a time critical environment.
• Keep status trackers up to date showing status of all responsible projects.
• Analyse and verify system requirements and interface definitions from a functional safety perspective.
• Act as single point of accountability for specific project delivery in the Functional Safety team and provide input as required to projects carried out by the project teams.
• Support the planning and followup of activities of the safety lifecycle.
• Cooperate with the project manager developers and customers. Liaise with suppliers to ensure achievement of safety requirements.
• Interact with system/feature owners and project/program teams to advise and review documentation.

Ideal Experience

• University degree in Electrical/Electronic/Mechatronics Engineering.
• Evidence of CFSP or CFSE certification and demonstrate experience thereof.
• Previous industry experience in a functional safety role working in accordance with a relevant international standard (e.g. IEC 61511 IEC 61508).
• Previous industry experience in the HAZOP & Risk Assessment role working in accordance with a relevant international standard (e.g. OSHA PSM 1910.119 and IEC 61882).
• Knowledge of Safety Codes and standards in the Hydrogen or process industry.
• Maintaining and monitoring the gaps or limitations of a product line from a safety standpoint and developing plans to address them as part of the product roadmap.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and help with prioritization of work.
• Ability to generate formal documentation to a high professional standard.
• Strong customerfacing skills.
• Strong communication and technical reporting skills including the ability to communicate with overseas suppliers.
• Ability to conduct and review Hazard Analysis & Risk Assessments (HARA) Fault Tree Analyses (FTA) Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) etc.
• Awareness of project management fundamentals.
• Excellent teamwork skills and a strong communicator with the ability to interact with various organizational stakeholders.
• Working closely with other platform leaders to define processes and tools for the Safety management of electrolyzers.
• Good time management skills and an ability to plan and organize both work activities and the resources required to execute said work activities.
• Able to apply previous lessons learned proactively.
• Selfmotivated and able to motivate and inspire others.