Safety Standards Engineer

Ford • Allen Park, MI

15h • Hybrid

About The Position

The global Automotive Safety Office (ASO) 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 the ASO lead for the Prevent Action Closure (PAC) process, a critical phase of Ford’s quality management framework focused on identifying and implementing corrective and preventative actions to prevent issues from recurring. You will also support various ‘prevent recurrence’ workstreams dedicated to enhancing product quality and customer satisfaction. This role requires collaboration with Quality, Product Development, Manufacturing, and Supplier Technical Assistance to refine the PAC process and ensure PAC papers are complete, robust, and impactful.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Automotive Safety, Product Development (PD), Supplier Technical Assistance (STA), Quality, and/or Manufacturing.
• Experience with 3L5W, G8D and PAC papers.
• FEDE experience with requirements: classification, assessment and evidence.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Strong basis of understanding of Ford’s processes (technology development, product development, design validation and verification, and vehicle operations).
• Positive problem-solving attitude and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to collaborate and connect cross-functionally to implement transformative process improvements.
• Strong communication and cross-functional networking skills.
• Strong decision-making skills and resolve to raise issues to the right people at the right time.
• Global understanding of Ford’s processes and products for technical read-across.
• Familiarity with DFMEA’s and severity ratings, including the new rating tables.
• Ability to critically evaluate data to make key decisions.
• Strong desire to improve safety and drive safety culture throughout Ford.
• Desire to get hands on during fresh eyes reviews (FERs).

Responsibilities

• Serve as the single point of contact within ASO for PAC process support, coordination, and improvements.
• Facilitate PAC reviews with ASO leadership.
• Coach ASO Vehicle Safety and Compliance Integration teams and cross-functional PAC teams on the PAC process per FAP03-171.
• Ensure the inclusion of comprehensive systemic and institutional prevent actions within PAC papers to eliminate the opportunity for the recurrence of escape points.
• Escalate escape point trends to the appropriate quality lead or root cause owner and track associated institutional prevent actions to resolution.
• Track PAC paper status and timing using the PAC Summary Dashboard.
• Connect ASO Vehicle Safety and Compliance Integration Leads with the appropriate PAC teams assigned to each concern for upstream cross-functional collaboration.
• Conduct 1-year PAC health checks to ensure prevent actions documented in completed PAC papers are still in use and are effective 1 year following PAC closure.
• Collaborate with PAC leads across the company to support process improvement initiatives.
• Interface with ASO SMEs to update compliance and due care inspections within the Fresh Eyes Review checklist.
• Support inquiries regarding in-plant compliance inspections contained within VOPQUG-234 Mandatory Compliance Inspection Report and Audit for Self-Certified (FMVSS CMVSS) Homologated Vehicles.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up 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 Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees