Senior Safety Performance SME

The Senior Safety SME will be responsible to advance the “state of the art” development for all safety development events.  The responsibilities of this position include:  

• Working closely with various industry /academic experts and suppliers to interpret regulations, establish guidelines, benchmark, identify and develop enablers.
• Streamline internal assessment / development processes, lead regulatory and third-party testing with in-house and outside test labs.
• Represent Stellantis for all vehicle safety related strategy development activities with various working groups and industry forums such as SAE, USCAR and software user conferences.
• Establish best practices and author / maintain globally harmonized procedure documents.
• Support root cause and resolution of issues found on physical properties during critical product development.
• Train and educate safety performance engineers in understanding and implementing the latest associated hardware or software technologies.
• Provide both formal and informal training to safety performance, virtual engineering and product development engineers.
• This position requires some travel to Chelsea Proving Grounds.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering or other technical degree.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience applying specialty expertise and demonstrated competence in the ability to direct, guide, lead and mentor significant research or technical programs.
• Complete understanding of regulatory compliance procedures as well as current and changes to third party regulations as it is evolving. Establish a systematical process to understand previous, current, and possible future requirements.
• Demonstrated depth of passive safety competency width as indicated in the description of capabilities and expertise above.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• An ability to transmit an understanding of the specialty to Performance Engineers, CAE engineering audience as well as management.
• Meets Stellantis requirements qualifying the candidate for a Safety SMEs classification.

Preferred Qualifications:

• DFSS Optimization applied to vehicle structure / Deterministic & Stochastic analysis
• Proven track of Safety Methodology/Tools/Guidelines/Script development
• Ability to apply Artificial Intelligence deep-learning techniques by using long-time cumulated Test and CAE data mining for future Vehicle Crashworthiness Structure Design Development as well as for safety predictability enhancement
• Participation or leadership in technical societies or Interactions with third party agencies