Senior Battery Systems Safety Engineer

The Company
Leading the industries decarbonisation movement, this team is driven to achieve growth agendas. The current portfolio of projects are centred around the production of renewable hydrogen, ammonia, minerals and other innovative future-energy sources.
The Role
This organisation has an opportunity for a Senior Battery Systems Safety Engineer.
Whilst your role may vary you will typically be responsible for:

• Primarily responsible for developing safety requirements, test cases and validation for systems release of High Voltage (HV) batteries in electrical trains
• Define the functional safety concept for the HV battery system according to EN50126
• Perform HARA, HAZOP to derive functional safety goals, and establish safe states and warning concepts
• Utilize system architectures, system block diagrams, and features to perform fault tree analysis to derive safety requirements
• Translate rail-specific standards into functionally safe RESS design and verify compliance
• Contribute to the definition/review of the RESS architecture from a safety perspective
• Collaborate with system engineers to ensure design meets cross-functional/safety standards and requirements
• Propose and create a DVP&R based on the derived safety requirements
• Lead the execution of the DVP&R and creation of safety assessment reports required for systems release
• Support and implement Quality engineering processes (system-/D-FMEA, ISO 26262/EN50126, cybersecurity, field and development issue resolution)
• Ensure compliance to the project management process by project owners to ensure all quality gates and SOP timelines are met
• Liaise with a range of key stakeholders on all technical aspects of projects
• Provide regular updates to the Principal including work progress, risks and priorities

About You

• Bachelor's degree (Master’s or PhD preferred) in Electrical / Electronic / Mechatronics Engineering, or a related field of study
• 5+ years of relevant experience in HV-Battery Systems (systems engineering, testing and release preferable)
• Deep knowledge of Lithium-ion Battery Systems
• Knowledge in hardware/software design of Electric Vehicle (EV) systems/components (<1500 VDC)
• Proven training/experience in automotive/rail HV-safety and ISO26262/EN50126
• Experience with EV system architectures, ECUs and control systems
• Proficient in requirements and project management tools (Eg. DOORS, Confluence, JIRA etc.)
• Strong knowledge of automotive/rail software analysis tools (Eg. CANoe, CANape etc.)
• Proven ability to debug failures at system level
• Strong foundation in systems and feature engineering processes and project experience in Automotive/Rail OEM or Tier 1 supplier
• Knowledge of production technology and manufacturing engineering advantageous
• Driven to win and target-oriented
• Passion for rail electrification
• Team player with strong analytical and communication skills

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DRD Group embraces a diverse workforce culture and encourages female and Indigenous applicants to apply. All work assignments are subject to successful completion of a medical, drug and alcohol screen plus verification of all original certifications and qualifications.