Senior Safety SME

The Senior Safety SME will be responsible to advance the state-of-the-art development activities related to vehicle safety crash worthiness. The responsibilities of this position include:

• Working closely with various industry / academic experts and suppliers to interpret new regulatory requirements and work collaboratively in providing industry-based responses.
• Lead the safety development strategy for new regulatory and third-party safety requirements by establishing technology roadmaps, developing appropriate design strategies, and identifying current or advanced countermeasures.
• Conduct global benchmarking activities and identify trends in vehicle safety technologies and content.
• Establish best practices and author / maintain globally harmonized safety procedure documents.
• Represent Stellantis for all vehicle safety related development activities with various working groups and industry forums such as SAE, USCAR and crash related software user conferences.
• Support root cause and issue resolution during critical product development activities.
• Train and educate safety performance engineers in understanding and implementing the latest technologies.
• This position requires some travel to Chelsea Proving Grounds.

• Minimum of a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering. Other technical degrees in the specific area of relevant specialty expertise may be considered.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience applying specialty expertise and demonstrated competence in the ability to direct, guide, lead and mentor significant research or technical programs.
• Strong foundational knowledge of global regulatory compliance procedures as well as current and proposed changes for third party requirements.
• Exceptional presentation and communication skills with the ability to explain complicated issues in an understandable manner.
• Ability to transmit an understanding of technical issues to the Performance Engineers, CAE engineering audience as well as the executive management team.
• Meets all Stellantis requirements in qualifying the candidate for a Senior Safety Technical Specialists classification.

• Masters or PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering, Structural or Aeronautical engineering.
• DFSS optimization applied to vehicle structure / deterministic & stochastic analysis.
• Proven track of Safety Methodology/Tools/Guidelines/Impact Script development.
• Ability to apply Artificial Intelligence deep-learning techniques by using long-time cumulated Test and CAE data mining for future Vehicle Crash worthiness Structure Design Development as well as for safety predictability enhancement.
• Previous participation or leadership in technical societies