Hybrid Vehicle Safety and Compliance Integration Engineer

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: Vehicle Safety and Compliance Integration Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dearborn, United States

About the role

• Vehicle Safety and Compliance Integration Engineer at Ford focusing on safety and compliance within powertrain systems. Engaging in regulatory compliance and cross-functional collaboration throughout the development cycle.

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• Experience in Product Development (PD) and/or Vehicle Homologation & Compliance (VH&C)
• Experience in powertrain, fuel systems or thermal systems as a D&R engineer
• 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)

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.