Principal ICA and Functional Safety Engineer

Principal ICA and Functional Safety Engineer

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Are you ready to make a real impact on the future of water engineering? Join Thames Water’s Asset Engineering team as a Control & Instrumentation (C&I) Functional Safety Engineer and play a key role in delivering our ambitious AMP8/5-year plan and beyond. You’ll help shape the future of functional safety and technical standards, ensuring our assets are safe, compliant, and resilient for years to come.

• Driving the advancement of the Functional Safety Engineering discipline and contributing to Technical Asset Standards.
• Ensuring the right technical requirements are captured in Project Technical Briefs.
• Leading Functional Safety SIL determination exercises and LOPA studies, specifying robust technical designs to manage risk.
• Understanding and applying safety critical task analysis and process hazards analysis (SCTA/PHA).
• Delivering engineering regulatory compliance for control and instrument assets.
• Producing and reviewing C&I designs, and supervising design partner works for compliance with Thames Water standards and industry best practice.
• Supporting the £300M AMP8 control and instrument obsolescence upgrade programme.
• Providing technical sign-off and assurance during project delivery and handover.
• Offering technical guidance to projects and operations on all C&I issues.
• Undertaking Function Safety Assessments

Working pattern or hours: 36 hours a week on a hybrid contract with a mix of office & home working.

• Recognised technical leader in control and instrument engineering, with extensive post-graduate experience.
• Experience in safety-related control and instrument design and safety instrumented systems, ideally within the water or energy sector.
• Project delivery experience across the full lifecycle.
• Understanding of the regulatory environment and engineering compliance.
• Ability to collaborate and influence senior colleagues.
• Degree (or equivalent) in Engineering and professional chartership.
• TUV Functional Safety Engineer qualification (or equivalent, e.g. CFSE, CFSP) with practical experience on SIL-rated systems.
• Skilled facilitator of qualitative and quantitative risk assessments (e.g. HAZOP, FMEA, SIL, Bow Tie, LOPA).

• Experience hosting Failure Mode Effects Analysis workshops.
• Knowledge of safety shutdown systems on service reservoirs and clean water production.
• Experience specifying operation and maintenance regimes for safety critical elements.

• Competitive salary from £82,500 to £95,000 per annum.
• 26 days holiday year (increasing with service) plus bank holidays.
• Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.