Roles#

Safety Manager
status: valid
security:
safety:

The safety manager is responsible for making sure that ISO26262 is complied to in the project. He/She shall lead and monitor the safety relevant activities of the project.

Required skills

  • Degree: Master’s degree in electrical engineering/computer science/mathematics, or similar degree, or comparable work experience

  • Solid understanding of functional safety management

  • Knowledge in project management

  • Deep understanding of quality criteria and the correlating methods and procedures to achieve and verify them

  • Technical know-how of embedded systems

  • Preferred training: Automotive Functional Safety Expert (AFSE) or similar

Knowledge of standards

  • ISO 26262

Experience

  • 2 years of experience in the management of safety topics

  • Experience in managing projects

  • Experience in managing safety anomalies

Responsibility

  • Creating the Safety Plan

  • Functional Safety related project status reporting

  • Creation and Monitoring of completeness of the safety case

  • Reporting of safety anomalies

  • Verify, that the preconditions for the “release for production”, which are part of the release notes, are fulfilled, and the correctness, completeness and consistency of the release notes

  • Coaching the project team w.r.t all questions related to functional safety

  • Planning of safety audit

  • Approval of OSS component classification and safety analyses (incl. DFA)

  • Creating the safety manuals on platform and module level

  • Checking that every person in his team has sufficient safety skills for his role

Authority

  • Escalation of planning topics to the project manager defined in the safety plan

  • Initiate the publication of a safety anomaly

  • Recommend the Release of a SW platform or a module

  • Refusing the approval of work products as defined in the workflows

  • Refusing the approval of his team’s role nomination (i.e. requesting that the role will be withdrawn)

External Auditor
status: valid
security:
safety:
status: valid
is responsible for: wf__p_fs_audit, wf__p_confirm_rv

Required skills, Knowledge of standards, Experience

  • External Auditor comes from organization specialized in safety audits and assessment, thus sufficient skill should be guaranteed by the sending organization.

  • For performing the confirmation reviews also a safety manager from another (SCORE) project can play the role of an external auditor, in this case the same skills apply as for the safety manager.

Responsibility

  • Performing and reporting of safety audit

  • Performing of confirmation reviews on safety plans, safety case and safety analysis (incl. DFA)

Authority

  • Decision on the passing or failing of an audit