Sr Safety Performance Engineer

Job Description
Role:
Sr Safety Performance Engineer
Location:
Auburn Hills, MI
Interview:
Phone/Skype
Job Type:
Contract
Job Description:
The Senior Safety Performance Engineer is responsible for leading the safety development activities for their assigned vehicle programs to ensure all identified safety functional objectives are achieved on time. They are responsible for developing impact scripts, identifying design enablers, developing, and executing component and full vehicle test plans.
Key Responsibilities:
- Safety development, customer functional objectives target setting, and vehicle level test plan execution;
specifically, for the vehicle crash regulatory and third-party ratings
- Support the vehicle integration and validation process by owning safety performance, leading the attribute team, and supporting tech club and vehicle program requests.
- This engineer will influence the designs and investigate vehicle issues to determine the root cause, issue the appropriate documentation for issue resolution, and lead the team where issue crosses multiple vehicle disciplines.
- Be responsible for physical testing and component testing, planning, vehicle coordination, vehicle build and test prep and execution from concept through launch, including interacting with CAE team for virtual validation.
- This position requires some travel to Chelsea Proving Grounds.
The Senior Safety Performance Engineer must possess a strong technical acumen, exceptional communication/organizational skills and demonstrate the ability to lead cross-functional working teams through issue identification and resolution.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited or equivalent program
- Eight years of vehicle development experience * Five years of safety development * Two years of experience as a lead engineer
- Experience guiding vehicle design using virtual analysis, and physical testing * Broad knowledge of vehicle regulatory and 3rd party requirements * Experience dealing with cross-functional (Durability, Safety, NVH, Aero) issues * Strategic thinking, strong leadership, and interpersonal skills * Demonstrated ability to summarize and present work
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from an ABET accredited or equivalent program
- Strategic thinking, strong leadership, and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated ability to summarize and present work
- Good presentation skills, problem solving ability
- Good knowledge of vehicle structures
- Good knowledge of fundamental physics and structural engineering principles.
- Excellent organizational, communication and teamwork skills
- Experience leading teams and solving complex issue