Principal ICA and Functional Safety Engineer

Overview

Lead functional safety and C&I engineering for water assets, ensuring compliance and risk management.

Key Responsibilities

• technical signoff
• c&i design
• functional safety
• regulatory compliance
• sil determination
• lopa studies

Tasks

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

Requirements

• functional safety
• tuv
• cfse
• sil
• hazop
• chartered

What You Bring

-Recognised technical leader in control and instrument engineering, with extensive post-graduate experience. -Project delivery experience across the full lifecycle. -Experience specifying operation and maintenance regimes for safety critical elements. -TUV Functional Safety Engineer qualification (or equivalent, e.g. CFSE, CFSP) with practical experience on SIL-rated systems. -Ability to collaborate and influence senior colleagues. -Knowledge of safety shutdown systems on service reservoirs and clean water production. -Degree (or equivalent) in Engineering and professional chartership. -Skilled facilitator of qualitative and quantitative risk assessments (e.g. HAZOP, FMEA, SIL, BowTie, LOPA). -Experience hosting Failure Mode Effects Analysis workshops. -Understanding of the regulatory environment and engineering compliance. -Understanding and applying safety critical task analysis and process hazards analysis (SCTA/PHA). -Experience in safety-related control and instrument design and safety instrumented systems, ideally within the water or energy sector.

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Benefits

-Generous Pension Scheme through AON. -Competitive salary from £82,500 to £95,000 per annum. -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. -Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets. -Car allowance -26 days holiday per year (increasing with service) plus bank holidays.

About Thames Water

-Delivering clean water and wastewater services across London and the Thames Valley. -Operates a vast network of infrastructure to meet the needs of its customers. -Focusing on sustainable water solutions and addressing climate change challenges. -Key player in major infrastructure projects, including the Thames Tideway Tunnel. -Involved in energy production through renewable initiatives like hydropower. -Committed to improving water quality, reliability, and customer service.

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