Job Title: Functional Safety Engineer- Oil & Gas Industry

Location: Fridley, MN

Job Description:

• Support cross-functional teams on functional safety matters across the entire Electrolytes business cycle.

• Work with process, instrument & control systems owners to address functional safety and process requirements.

• Develop and maintain functional safety documentation like functional safety management plan FSMP, safety control narrative SCN, safety requirements specifications SRS.

• Develop functional safety studies resulted in description of SIFs, PFDs values & SIL

• levels and the associated RRF, safe states, demand modes, and bypass theory resulted in creation of safety requirement specifications SRS.

• Perform as a key participant in HAZOP/HAZID and Risk Assessment workshops.

• Perform safety analysis and SIL calculations. Carry out SIL determination through application of LOPA methodology and determine target SIL.

• Identify hazards and quantify risks resulting in risk reduction factor RRF, maintaining the concept of ALARP).

• Perform SIL verification and calculate for and specify SIFs’ PFD & HFT architecture to

• confirm whether the classified SIFs in the current architecture meet the required/target SILs.

• Review and approve work products from a functional safety perspective and participate at technical reviews and workshops.

• Conduct / carry out functional safety audits and assessments and support third party audits and assessments.

• Support the development of best practice procedures for functional safety activities.

• Provide input on changes affecting functional safety, including the Impact Analysis.

• Provide integrity and enforce appropriate standards in a time critical environment.

• Keep status trackers up to date, showing status of all responsible projects.

• Analyze and verify system requirements and interface definitions from a functional safety perspective.

• Act as a single point of accountability for specific project delivery in the Functional Safety team and provide input, as required, to projects carried out by the project teams.

• Support the planning and follow-up of activities of the safety lifecycle.

• Cooperate with the project manager, developers, and customers. Liaise with suppliers to ensure achievement of safety requirements.

• Interact with system/feature owners and project/program teams to advise and review documentation.

Ideal Experience:

• University degree in Electrical/Electronic/Mechatronics Engineering.

• Evidence of CFSP or CFSE certification and demonstrate experience thereof.

• Previous industry experience in a functional safety role working in accordance with a relevant international standard (e.g., IEC 61511, IEC 61508).

• Previous industry experience in the HAZOP & Risk Assessment role working in accordance with a relevant international standard (e.g., OSHA PSM 1910.119 and IEC 61882).

• Knowledge of Safety Codes and standards in the Hydrogen, Oil and Gas or process industry.

• Maintaining and monitoring the gaps or limitations of a product line from a safety standpoint and developing plans to address them as part of the product roadmap.

• Ability to manage ambiguity and help with prioritization of work

• Ability to generate formal documentation to a high professional standard.

• Strong customer facing skills.

• Strong communication and technical reporting skills, including the ability to communicate with overseas suppliers.

• Ability to conduct and review Hazard Analysis & Risk Assessments (HARA), Fault Tree

• Analyses (FTA), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) etc.

• Awareness of project management fundamentals.

• Excellent team working skills and a strong communicator with the ability to interact with various organizational stakeholders.

• Working closely with other platform leaders to define processes and tools for the Safety management of electrolytes.

• Good time management skills and an ability to plan and organize both work activities and the resources required to execute said work activities.

• Able to apply previous lessons learned proactively.

• Self-motivated and able to motivate and inspire others.