Vehicle Safety and Compliance Integration Engineer

Ford • Dearborn, MI

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About The Position

At Ford, we’re defining the future of human mobility with a strong focus on corporate responsibility. If you share this commitment, join the diverse team of passionate professionals within our Sustainability, Environment & Safety group. You’ll be a key contributor to our efforts to provide the technical and regulatory expertise necessary for advancing such critical initiatives as product safety, emissions, fuel economy, vehicle recycling and much more. 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, sub-system and systems level safety / compliance throughout the development cycle, product launch phase, on-going change management and field evaluations. Seeking candidates to support underbody systems such as brakes, suspension, steering, wheels, tires, driveline, and transmission.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• 5+ Experience in Product Development (PD) and/or Vehicle Homologation & Compliance (VH&C)
• Experience in any chassis system(s) or driveline/transmission system as a D&R engineer

Nice To Haves

• FEDE experience with requirements: classification, assessment and evidence
• Strong basis of understanding Ford’s processes (technology development, product development (GPDS), design validation and verification, vehicle operations and potential defect investigations)
• Positive problem-solving attitude and conflict resolution skills
• Experience with 3L5W, G8D and PAC papers
• Familiarity with DFMEA’s and severity ratings, including the new rating tables
• Knowledge of FMVSS requirements and ability to apply them throughout engineering process
• 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
• 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 (FER’s)

Responsibilities

• 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 Ford’s vehicles robustly comply globally.
• Ensure Safety and Compliance requirements are cascaded at the right time, understood by the right stakeholders, and include system and component implications.
• 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 Over-The-Air 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, sub-systems and systems throughout the Failure Mode Avoidance process, facilitating cross-functional 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 cross-vehicle line effects, ensure process improvements and Prevent Action Closure remedies are properly communicated and implemented into Failure Mode Avoidance documents, deliverables and processes beyond same-part assessment to include related families or functional considerations.
• Deliver on-going 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.

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