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Senior Safety Engineer : Elekta

Employer
Manor Royal Business District
Location
Crawley, West Sussex
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
11 May 2021

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Sector
Engineering, Software
Function
Health & Safety , Engineer
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

Elekta

Want to join a team with a mission to improve and save lives?  

We continually look for motivated and skilled individuals who are interested in supporting our customers – healthcare professionals who use our products to help patients and their communities.

We currently have the following opportunity available - please contact us for more details!

DESCRIPTION -

The Safety Engineer ensures that the Elekta safety process is applied effectively to a project release. While the Safety
Engineer shares responsibility for safety with the project team, the Safety Engineer’s expertise on safety related matters is expected to
take the lead in the group producing safe products.
Principal and senior grades are expected to deliver the responsibilities at a higher level, provide greater influence on product
specification and global strategies on safety engineering.

RESPONSIBILITIES -

The Safety Engineer has the following responsibilities:
Project work:
The following activities are delivered through active participation in a shared service Agile team:

  • Planning safety activities appropriate to the size of the project/release and commensurate with the risk from the intended use and characteristics of the product.
  • Ensure that the planned activities are applied effectively throughout the project.
  • Ensure suitable techniques are applied to analyse design and design changes to identify hazards, causes of hazards and estimate
  • their risk and record the evidence of this analysis
  • Ensure appropriate risk control measures are applied to reduce the risk from hazards to an acceptable level.
  • Review the safety activities for completeness and effectiveness and prepare a safety case on behalf of the project team that argues activities for the project have sufficient progress and risk is acceptable to release the product. Where the risk is not accepted by the project team, provide the Project Steering Group with the information necessary to make an informed decision regarding release.
  • Identify and package work for delivery through Global Engineering, sub-contract or outsource resource

Post Production Assessment:

  • Perform risk assessment on problems on released products reported through the Customer Lifecycle Management (CLM) Process

Process improvement:

  • Use expertise to support process improvement activities to respond to changes in standards, and improve the efficiency of the safety assessment process in line with scaled agile framework

AUTHORITIES –

  •  Creation and review of risk assessments resulting from CLM Reports
  •  Creation of Safety Risk Management Plans and Reports
  •  Addition to and review of Product Hazard Analysis in the Hazard database

RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Knowledge:

  • Risk Management policy and principals;
  •  Risk Management processes;
  •  Safety standards, preferably including ISO 14971, IEC 61508; or IEC 61511;
  •  Sector specific knowledge is preferable, including IEC 60601.
  •  Usability principles and procedures; desirable

Educational:

  • No specific requirement, typically good 1st degree in science or engineering.

Experience:

Applying Hazard Identification and risk assessment methods as part of a product or process plant development process;

  •  Creating risk assessments on systems (preferably both software and hardware);
  •  Report writing;
  •  Document reviews;
  •  Design reviews.

Personal skills:

  •  Good communication, in particular through documentation and report writing;
  •  Analytical and logical;
  •  Commitment to complete assignments;
  •  Ability to work as part of a team;
  •  Able to use initiative, remain objective, escalate and seek advice as apprprate.

Company

Manor Royal Business District is the biggest business park of the Gatwick Diamond area and one of the south east's premier mixed activity employment hubs.

Enviable location and connections

Situated at the heart of the Gatwick Diamond on the Sussex and Surrey county borders, just two miles from London Gatwick Airport, a major motorway junction (M23 Junctoion 10) and two mainline railway stations (Gatwick Airport and Three Bridges), Manor Royal is a popular choice for a diverse range of occupiers including a host of blue chip global brands.

Manor Royal in numbers

  • One of the biggest business parks in the South East.
  • Covers an area of 539 acres – that’s over 300 football pitches.
  • 700 properties
  • 500 businesses
  • 30,000 people

Manor Royal more than a number

Since the formation of the Manor Royal Business Group (MRBG), an association of Manor Royal based business and firms, being on Manor Royal means being part of something. You’re never just a number.

Manor Royal makes sense

Scale, diversity, location and great connectivity with a property offer to match means Manor Royal based firms are never far away from their suppliers, customers and a talented workforce.

Pay us a visit

Visit www.manorroyal.org to find out more and to get in touch

 

Company info
Website
Mini-site
Manor Royal Business District
Location
7 Magellan Terrace (Ground Floor)
Gatwick Road
Crawley
West Sussex
RH10 9PJ
United Kingdom

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