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Functional Safety Management (FSM) Manager

The functional safety management (FSM) manager is responsible for ensuring that the R&D organization adheres to the applicable functional safety standards, such as the IEC 61508 or IEC 61511, for safety-related development and maintenance.

The role is mandatory for any safety-related development or maintenance project.

Description​

The FSM manager is responsible for ensuring that normative requirements of the safety life-cycle1 phases are fulfilled for the safety-related products and projects. He/she does so by monitoring and controlling that processes and development work follow the standards and that functional safety is achieved and demonstrated within the R&D organization.

The FSM manager may delegate the responsibility to other roles, such as the safety engineer, and/or teams, such as the safety team (whose members consist of the safety engineers).

Responsibilities​

  • Ensure adherence to the applicable functional safety standards of the safety-relevant parts of PCP R&D Processes.
  • Ensure correctness and completeness of all safety-related instructions and guidelines.
  • Approve the safety-related documentation, such as the quality plan & the safety manual, from an FSM perspective for safety-related projects.
  • Monitor the adherence of the safety-related projects to the safety standards and processes via the safety assurance activities e.g. via the safety assurance assessments and via dialogue with the safety engineers who define, coordinate, participate, and/or conduct safety-related activities both between and within safety-related development projects.
  • Supervise that handling of field problems with safety relevance are handled the correct way, e.g. in time, the right action(s), etc.
  • Train and coach in the functional safety procedures and methods.
  • Perform internal FSM audits.

Competence​

  • Undergone IEC 61508 functional safety training either in-house or externally.
  • At least 3 years of business experience in the area of functional safety is desired.
  • At least 3 years of business experience in the leadership position of the organization is desired.
  • Higher technical education, degree or diploma, in a related discipline or equivalent engineer level responsibilities status certified by an employer in a reference letter.

Footnotes​

  1. The safety lifecycle is, according to IEC 61508-4, 3.7.1, the necessary activities involved in the implementation of safety-related systems, occurring during a period of time that starts at the concept phase of a project and finishes when all of the E/E/PE (Editor’s note: electrical/electronic/programmable electronic) safety-related systems and other risk reduction measures are no longer available for use. ↩