Functional Safety Engineer
Competitive starting salary from £52,000 to £62,400 depending on experience
Up to 10% bonus
Permanent personal contract
Based at our offices in Leeds with travel across our network

We have an exciting opportunity for a Functional Safety Engineer to join our team where you will develop and manage the functional safety process within the organisation to deliver exceptional performance alongside ensuring that legislative and license requirements in relation to gas and technical safety are fully met.  This role will cover both gas transmission and distribution assets across Northern Gas Networks (NGN) area of operations.

Your key accountabilities and responsibilities
•    Provide monitoring, assurance, technical advice and support to the wider business
•    Develop, manage and report on the Functional Safety Management System and develop and update policies and procedures for compliance with relevant legislation and codes of practice 
•    Work with the business to ensure adequate controls, systems, policies and procedures are in place to minimise the risk of functional safety incidents / accidents and protect people from the effects of incidents / accidents to ensure that risk is as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP)
•    Ensure compliance with the NGN Safety Case in relation to risk assessment and risk mitigation
•    Manage the provision of specialist functional safety, support, measurement, assurance and audit activities to the business and manage and assist in the investigation of process and asset related incidents and provide reports to internal department and HSE, in accordance with legislation, license conditions and internal procedures
•    Identify, raise and provide ongoing status monitoring / updates on and functional safety related risks and issues as appropriate

What skills and experience are we are looking for
•    Appropriate experience of major accident hazards and associated risk assessment techniques (e.g. HAZOP, HAZID, LOPA etc.) and technical / engineering control measures
•    Excellent analytical and problem solving skills and the ability to innovate and develop technical solutions to complex problems
•    Strong risk assessment / management experience and knowledge of appropriate safety and risk-related tools
•    Can develop functional safety lifecycle documents to high standard including Safety Requirement Specifications, Functional Safety Management Plans, Failure Data Reports, PFD calculation reports (using software packages for the calculations), SIF Registers and Verification documents
•    Previous experience with initiating and maintaining strategic relationships both internally and externally, using strong influencing skills to achieve business goals
•    Higher National Certificate (or higher qualification) in an appropriate engineering discipline and TuV Rhineland approved Functional Safety Engineer (SIS) or equivalent
•    Working knowledge and experience in functional safety lifecycle activities across the breadth of the BS EN 61511 or BS EN 61508 functional safety lifecycle

What we Offer
•    Competitive starting salary from £52,000 to £62,400 depending on experience
•    Up to 10% bonus (dependent upon achievement of set targets) 
•    40 hours per week
•    Free onsite parking at all our sites
•    25 days annual leave (plus recognised bank holidays and 2 half days over the Christmas period) 
•    SSP for first 7 calendar days then occupational sick pay 
•    A generous stakeholder 5/10 pension scheme 

We are ... Northern Gas Networks.  We deliver gas to 2.7 million homes and businesses in the North East, Northern Cumbria and much of Yorkshire. That’s around 6.7 million individual customers.  We don’t generate or sell the gas, but we transport it to homes and businesses in our region through a vast network of underground pipes.  In fact, we own and maintain more than 37,000km of gas pipes - enough to stretch from Leeds to Sydney and back again. 

Our Values are at the heart of what we do. In addition to your key responsibilities, you will incorporate these into the daily life of your role.  We are … Trailblazing, Empowered, Heartfelt, Community Focused, Intellectually Curious and most of all we are Happy!

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion culture at NGN is embedded in everything that we do. We will be delighted to hear from a diverse range of applicants, so we can continue to grow our great team of people.  We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant, helping ex-services personnel back into employment, as well as being members of WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) and we are committed to delivering our ‘Opportunity Action Plan’ having signed the Social Mobility Pledge campaign. 

Next Steps.  Please apply by clicking apply and uploading your CV (and a cover letter, if desired). We love to see how your experience and skills are transferable to this role so please ensure these are all included in your application. Once the advert has closed, we will be in contact within one week to let you know if you have progressed to the next stage. We are looking to hold interviews for this role throughout April and May and we look forward to receiving your application for the role.  

If you require adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process, we want to hear about how we can help. Any applicant that requires reasonable adjustments from the initial application through to the interview is asked to contact the Recruitment Team at (url removed)