Senior Functional Safety Engineer

About Us

Diamond Light Source is one of the world’s most advanced scientific facilities. We’re home to the UK’s synchrotron light source – a giant microscope producing beams of light 10 billion times brighter than the sun. Probing the structure and composition of matter, our work drives innovation in everything from vaccines to nanotech. 

At Diamond we are currently undertaking a major upgrade of the facility, known as Diamond-II. Diamond-II will combine a new machine and new beamlines with a comprehensive series of upgrades to optics, detectors, sample environments, sample delivery capabilities and computing, which will ultimately generate an even more brilliant light source at a higher energy 

About the Role

We now have an opportunity for a Senior Functional Safety Engineer (Internally known as Senior Personnel Safety Engineer) to join the team on a 2 year fixed term contract. You will be responsible for the design, development, commissioning and operational support of a high integrity Personnel Safety Systems to protect people from the radiation and Oxygen Depletion hazards produced in photon Beamlines on Diamond. 

• Lead the design and develop the Personnel Safety Systems to protect staff, user and public from the radiation hazards across Diamond.
• Lead the specification of safety logic to ensure protection of facility staff, user and public from the radiation hazards.
• Apply technical know-how on active safety systems to ensure that the developed systems meet the goals of required safety integrity level.
• Manage stakeholders, through all stages of the project Safety Systems life cycle; including Engineers, Scientists and Directors on requirements, project progress, and correctness of operation of Personnel Safety Systems.
• Develop and maintain a design process for Personnel Safety Systems in Diamond that ensures compliance with international standards for safety systems.
• Undertake statistical analysis of the installed Personnel Safety System to verify its integrity level and functional correctness.
• Project manages work-packages related to Personnel Safety System by external suppliers including preparation of tenders and service level agreements.
• Line management for staff and contractors to support Personnel Safety System design, installation and commissioning. 

About You

You will hold a relevant STEM Degree and a recognised high level functional safety certification such as TUV or equivalent. 

You should display good communication, interpersonal and analytical skills, with Self-motivation and the ability to work as part of a team. 

You will demonstrate experience or knowledge in the following:

• Working with standards, particularly EN61508, EN61511 & BS62061
• Undertaking Fault tree analysis and FMEA and understanding its importance.
• Hazard identification, particularly in high energy physics environments or similar
• Specifying, creating and verifying Safety hardware for safety systems.  

You must also be willing to work occasional overtime at unsociable hours as required, travel in the UK and abroad, including occasional periods away from home, and you will be prepared to undertake further training if required. 

Benefits

Diamond offers an exceptional benefits package to support staff in achieving a positive work/life balance. This includes 26 days annual leave plus Christmas closure, public holidays, 2 annual volunteering days and flexible working hours. We also offer an excellent defined benefit pension scheme. 

This role qualifies for a non-pensionable allowance of £3000 per annum.   

The initial closing date for applications is 16th February 2025, however applications will be reviewed and interviewed on an ongoing basis until this vacancy is filled.

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