Functional Safety Engineer
Listed on 2026-09-27
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Engineering
Safety Engineer, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineer, Engineering Design & Technologists
SCX is a leading UK engineering business delivering innovative mechanical handling, control systems and kinetic architecture solutions across the Defence, Nuclear, Aerospace, Infrastructure and Sports & Entertainment sectors.
We're looking for a Functional Safety Engineer to join our team, helping to design and deliver high-integrity control systems for some of the UK's most technically challenging engineering projects.
What you'll be doingYou'll play a key role in ensuring our control systems are safe, compliant and delivered to the highest engineering standards. You'll:
- Design and develop safety-related control systems for complex engineering projects.
- Produce technical documentation, safety specifications and design calculations.
- Carry out risk assessments, system verification and validation activities.
- Support Factory and Site Acceptance Testing (FAT/SAT).
- Work closely with clients and project teams to deliver safe, high-quality solutions.
- Mentor junior engineers and promote best practice in functional and machinery safety.
You'll be degree-qualified in Electrical, Control or a related engineering discipline, with experience designing safety-related control systems in an industrial or regulated environment.
Ideally, you'll have experience with:
- Functional and machinery safety standards (such as BS EN 13849, BS EN 61508 or BS EN 62061).
- Electrical design tools such as Eplan.
- PLC/HMI platforms including Siemens, Rockwell or Schneider.
- Safety validation, risk assessments and technical documentation.
Experience with in Defence, Nuclear, Aerospace or other safety-critical industries would be advantageous.
- Work on innovative, high-profile engineering projects across multiple sectors.
- Flexible start and finish times around core working hours.
- 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Buy up to 3 additional days' holiday.
- Salary sacrifice pension scheme.
- Long service holiday awards.
If you're looking to develop your career in functional safety while working on complex, industry-leading engineering projects, we'd love to hear from you.
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