Senior Safety Performance Engineer

Stellantisfinancialservices; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellantis Financial Services is seeking a Senior Safety Performance Engineer to lead safety development for assigned vehicle programs, ensuring safety objectives are met on time. You will own safety performance and test planning from concept through launch, coordinating with CAE and vehicle teams.

Travel to Chelsea Proving Grounds is required; you will guide design using virtual analysis and physical testing, and summarize findings for cross-functional leadership while shaping safety strategy

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum of 5 years of vehicle development and safety development experience.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety development activities for assigned vehicle programs and ensure safety objectives are met on time.
• Support impact script development, identify design enablers, and execute test plans.
• Own safety performance, lead the attribute team, and support vehicle program requests.
• Influence designs, investigate issues to identify root causes, and document resolutions.
• Plan and execute physical and component testing from concept through launch; coordinate with CAE for virtual validation.
• Travel to Chelsea Proving Grounds as needed.

Skills

Safety engineering

Vehicle development

Virtual analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership

Technical reporting

Education

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Tools

CATIA/NX/TC

Hypergraph

data/film analysis

Advanced simulation techniques

Job description

Overview

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 Safety Performance Engineer must possess a strong technical acumen, exceptional communication/organizational skills.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years of vehicle development and safety development experience
• 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