Vehicle Safety and Compliance Integration Engineer
Vehicle Safety and Compliance Integration Engineer
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Job Description
We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day roll up our sleeves and build a better world together. At Ford were all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves
The global Automotive Safety Office is responsible for establishing policies strategies and providing independent oversight to ensure vehicle compliance enhance real world safety and protect the corporate reputation.
In this position...
You will be directly supporting the core functional area to assess and validate designs for regulatory compliance and safety working closely with hardware software and features engineering teams to ensure component subsystem and systems level safety / compliance throughout the development cycle product launch phase ongoing change management and field evaluations.
We are seeking candidates to support vehicle exterior systems related to crash safety and hardware systems related to side impact roof fuel systems locks latches and releases used for closures.
Responsibilities
What youll do...
- Single point of contact in the core functional area for all product safety and compliance topics.
- Translate system level regulatory requirements to component level engineering requirements in order to ensure robust compliance.
- Maintain awareness of technology and regulatory development to help Fords vehicles robustly comply globally.
- Develop and maintain Compliance Strategy Templates for preproduction programs to support program milestone health chart reviews.
- Ensure Safety and Compliance requirements are cascaded at the right time understood by the right stakeholders and include system and component implications.
- Provide technical expertise for development of comprehensive and optimized Compliance Demonstration Plans.
- Oversee design validation testing and provide a detailed review of Compliance Demonstration Reports including feature interaction reviews.
- Represent safety and compliance for the core functional area in all Design Reviews and key decision forums including review of all deviation requests and change requests. Review all proposed Technical Service Bulletins Special Service Messages and OverTheAir Update requests to assess for safety and compliance and refer to Critical Concern Review Group if appropriate.
- Ensure alignment of key safety and compliance controls of components subsystems and systems throughout the Failure Mode Avoidance process facilitating crossfunctional collaboration between hardware software and features engineering teams as well as downstream manufacturing and supplier processes.
- Partner with Campaign Prevent Specialists and Program Compliance Attribute Leads in Fresh Eyes Reviews and issue resolution.
- Assess Stop Ships and field or build issues for potential crossvehicle line effects ensure process improvements and Prevent Action Closure remedies are properly communicated and implemented into Failure Mode Avoidance documents deliverables and processes beyond samepart assessment to include related families or functional considerations.
- Deliver ongoing training to core functional area technical specialists and Hardware / Software / Features Engineering teams to promote a strong safety/compliance culture throughout the enterprise.
- Review processes connected data warranty prototype issues Compliance Demonstration Report timing and functional performance to recommend changes to audits and checks of Design Release and Manufacturing attributes.
Qualifications
Youll have...
- Bachelors Degree in Engineering
Even better you may have...
- Experience in Product Development (PD) and/or Vehicle Homologation & Compliance (VH&C)
- Deep technical knowledge in your area of specialization to earn respect and integration into functional team
- Strong basis of understanding of Fords processes (technology development product development design validation and verification vehicle operations and potential defect investigations)
- Positive problemsolving attitude and conflict resolution skills
- Ability to collaborate and connect crossfunctionally to implement transformative process improvements
- Strong communication and crossfunctional networking skills
- Strong decision making skills and resolve to raise issues to the right people at the right time
- Global understanding of Fords processes and products for technical readacross
- Ability to critically evaluate data to make key decisions
You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve outlined but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company we encourage you to apply!
As an established global company we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe or keep you close to home Will your career be a deep dive into what you love or a series of new teams and new skills Will you be a leader a changemaker a technical expert a culture builderor all of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:
Immediate medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days paid parental leave new parent rampup programs subsidized backup child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement fertility treatments and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Years Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
For more information on salary and benefits click here: New Hire Benefits
This position is a range of salary grades 58 .
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Employment Type
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