Vehicle Safety and Compliance Integration Engineer

At Ford, we’re defining the future of human mobility with a strong focus on corporate responsibility. If you share this commitment, join the diverse team of passionate professionals within our Sustainability, Environment & Safety group. You’ll be a key contributor to our efforts to provide the technical and regulatory expertise necessary for advancing such critical initiatives as product safety, emissions, fuel economy, vehicle recycling and much more.

In this position…

• You will be directly supporting the core functional area to assess and validate designs for regulatory compliance and safety, working closely with hardware, software and features engineering teams to ensure component, sub-system and systems level safety / compliance throughout the development cycle, product launch phase, on-going change management and field evaluations.
• Seeking candidates to support underbody systems such as brakes, suspension, steering, wheels, tires, driveline, and transmission.

What you'll do...

• 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.