Safety Governance & Safety Design Guidelines Migration SME

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The global Automotive Safety Office (ASO) is responsible for establishing policies, strategies and providing independent oversight to ensure vehicle compliance, enhance real world safety and protect the corporate reputation.

You will drive Ford’s safety strategy, exceeding regulatory requirements, as the subject matter expert for our Safety Design Guidelines (ensuring high real-world safety and customer satisfaction) and Public Domain Guidelines (promoting Ford brands via third-party ratings). This role also manages our safety governance, facilitating senior leadership forums and defining processes for the new Vehicle Program Safety & Regulatory Compliance team. We seek a candidate who effectively collaborates with ASO SMEs, Regional Experts, Safety Planning, Crash Safety, and other technical experts (e.g., Seats, Lighting, ADAS) to ensure a robust safety strategy is clearly communicated to program and engineering teams.

What you'll do...

• Single point of contact for our Safety Design Guidelines and Public Domain Guidelines, including strategy development & approval, document updates, and SharePoint site management.
• Facilitate ASO Director and E&SC VP-level Safety Governance forums.
• Coaching of program teams for obtaining approval for Technical Capability Assessment Papers and Conformance Plans per FAP03-196.
• Support the development of migration phase-in plans when new protocols are released, including updating the Panel 7 template within the Program Safety and Compliance Strategy.
• Coordinate ASO input and manage sign-off for the annual Integrated Report, including a summary of PDG ratings, highlighting new safety technologies, and communicating safety partnerships.
• Publication of the bi-annual Safety and Environmental Forecast letter, including a presentation in the Engineering Excellence forum to summarize recent regulatory changes to the PD community.
• As part of the newly established Vehicle Program Safety & Regulatory Compliance team, lead development of processes to ensure pre-production programs have a robust cascade and delivery of safety and compliance regulatory requirements that span across software, hardware, and features.

You'll have... 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related fields

 

Even better, you may have...

• Experience in Product Development (PD), Cycle Planning, and/or Brand/Marketing.
• Familiarity with Public Domain Guidelines (NCAP, IIHS, C-IASI).
• Strong basis of understanding of Ford’s processes (technology development, product development, design validation and verification, and vehicle operations).
• Positive problem-solving attitude and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to collaborate and connect cross-functionally to implement transformative process improvements.
• Strong communication and cross-functional networking skills.
• Strong decision-making skills and resolve to raise issues to the right people at the right time.
• Global understanding of Ford’s processes and products for technical read-across.
• Ability to critically evaluate data to make key decisions.

 

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

• Tuition assistance

• Established and active employee resource groups

• Paid time off for individual and team community service

• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day

• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time. 

 

This position is a leadership level 6.

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