Principal Functional Safety
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Shape the Future of Safety: Principal Functional Safety Specialist
Are you ready to elevate your career and make a tangible impact on national safety? We are seeking a highly skilled and passionatePrincipal Functional Safety professionalto join a leading organisation at the forefront of scientific and technological defence. This is a unique opportunity to apply your expertise in a high-hazard environment, directly influencing functional safety strategy for critical infrastructure.
Why This Role is Your Next Career Move This is more than just a job; it is a chance to provide vital functional safety leadership, working with cutting edge facilities where your expertise will be paramount. You will be instrumental in developing and implementing robust safety policies and procedures, ensuring the integrity of complex systems and safeguarding against major accident hazards. Imagine the professional satisfaction of knowing your work directly contributes to a safer, more secure future.
Empowering Your Expertise As a Functional Safety Principal, you will:
- Lead with Impact: Take the lead in developing and refining functional safety policy and procedures, shaping best practice across the organisation.
- Drive Assurance: Conduct crucial inspection and auditing activities, ensuring the highest standards of safety are met and maintained.
- Influence Design: Work proactively with operations teams to define functional safety requirements for new and evolving building projects.
- Solve Complex Challenges: Utilise your expertise in safety-related systems to perform requirements capture and analysis, and support critical incident investigations.
- Continuous Growth: Benefit from a strong emphasis on continuous professional development, ensuring you maintain your Chartered Membership and stay at the forefront of your field. You will also develop and maintain vital links with functional safety professionals across other organisations.
You will demonstrate:
- Certified Expertise: Functional Safety Expert certification from an appropriate certifying body (e.g., IChemE, TUV, CFSE).
- Applied Knowledge: Recent experience applying engineering good practice as highlighted in BS EN 61508 / 61511 within the process industry.
- Risk Management Mastery: Proven expertise in Safety Integrity Level (SIL) requirements capture and analysis, alongside practical experience in managing risks within process safety or high-hazard environments.
- Hazard Analysis Skills: Demonstrated experience in hazard identification (HAZID), hazard and operability studies (HAZOP), and layers of protection analysis (LOPA).
A Supportive and Collaborative Environment Our client fosters an environment where strong leadership is valued, encouraging adaptability, effective communication, and collaborative relationships. You will be part of a culture that supports diversity and inclusion, ensuring everyone can excel and contribute their best work.
Location and Remuneration This role is based in Wiltshire. While attendance at a client location or other government/partner premises is required for 60% of your working time, there is also the flexibility for home-based working with agreement, allowing for a good work-life balance.
Due to the nature of work at our client’s site, these vacancies are only open to British Citizens who hold SC clearance or can obtain it.
This is a permanent role.
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you do not hear from us within seven working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are free to resubmit your CV or details in the future, and we shall assess your suitability then. #J-18808-Ljbffr
- Location:
- England, United Kingdom
- Salary:
- £60,000 - £80,000
- Category:
- Management & Operations