About the role

  • Lead Automotive Safety Office initiatives focusing on preventive actions and compliance in Ford's quality management. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance product safety and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

  • Single point of contact within ASO for PAC process support, coordination, and improvements.
  • Facilitate PAC reviews with ASO leadership.
  • Coaching of ASO Vehicle Safety and Compliance Integration teams and cross-functional PAC teams on the PAC process per FAP03-171.
  • Ensure 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 the 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.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
  • 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).

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.

Job title

Safety Standards Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$72,480 - $121,440 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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