Position Title: Functional Safety Engineer

Duration: Permanent, Full time role

Location: Coventry

• Our Client deliver engineering consultancy projects for OEM customers in a number of areas, including but not limited to Transmissions, ADAS, Hybrid Vehicles and Electrification. Increasingly, these projects require robust analysis of the functional safety risks and mitigation actions.
• A Functional Safety Engineer role now exists to act as a central Functional Safety expert across a broad range of consultancy projects, supporting the system engineers by taking responsibility for the Functional Safety deliverables.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• With support from the system engineers and from other Functional Safety Engineers, the role will be to perform the Functional Safety activities as appropriate to the project.
• This will include the following key activities:
• Understand intended functionality of systems in a broad automotive context
• Generate the necessary Functional Safety documentation for the project following ISO26262: Fault-tree analysis, Hazard analysis, technical safety concepts and requirements
• Lead Functional Safety reviews as needed both internally with the project team and with customers

YOUR PROFILE:

Essential:

• Minimum BSc or BEng (2:1) in Automotive, Electrical or equivalent Engineering
• Relevant engineering experience (ideally Systems or Safety Engineering)
• Experience of supporting Functional Safety activities according to ISO26262
• Good communication skills
• English language (spoken and written)
• Driving licence valid for driving in the UK
• Preferable:
• Previous experience of delivering Functional Safety documentation as defined by ISO26262
• Experience in development of one or more of: automotive powertrain control systems, high-voltage electrical power supplies, hybrid vehicles, ADAS features or similar technical fields
• Experience in conducting/leading FMEA, FTA, FMEDA, HARA activities
• Project Management experience