Senior Safety Performance Engineer

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 supporting impact script development, identifying design enablers, 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 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.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering 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:

• 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
• Experience dealing with cross-functional issues related to restraints or structures
• Previous laboratory, design release, CAE and hands-on crashworthiness expertise is a plus
• Knowledge of CATIA/NX/TC, Hypergraph, data/film analysis, and advanced simulation techniques