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.
Preferred QualificationsBasic 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
Skills Required
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- Minimum of 5 years vehicle development and safety development experience
- Experience guiding vehicle design using virtual analysis and physical testing
- Broad knowledge of vehicle regulatory and third-party requirements
- Experience dealing with cross-functional issues (Durability, Safety, NVH, Aero)
- Strong technical acumen and exceptional communication and organizational skills
- Ability to plan and execute physical/component/full-vehicle test plans, vehicle build and test prep
- Experience interacting with CAE teams for virtual validation
- Good knowledge of vehicle structures
- Knowledge of fundamental physics and structural engineering principles
- Experience leading teams and solving complex, cross-disciplinary issues
- Experience with restraints or structures-related cross-functional issues
- Previous laboratory, design release, CAE and hands-on crashworthiness expertise
- Knowledge of CATIA, NX, TC, Hypergraph, data/film analysis, and advanced simulation techniques
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Pay Growth & Progression — Contract-driven increases lifted hourly wages roughly 25% over 4.5 years and restored cost-of-living adjustments, pushing top rates near $42 per hour by the end of the agreement. Union hourly positions appear to have benefited most since the 2023 deal.
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Affordable Benefits — UAW-represented hourly workers pay no premiums and about 3% of total healthcare costs while receiving comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and wellness coverage. This creates materially lower out-of-pocket costs for represented hourly roles.
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Retirement Support — Post-2007 hourly hires receive a 10% employer 401(k) contribution and legacy workers saw defined-benefit improvements with retiree bonuses. Salaried roles also cite a 401(k) with employer match and contribution up to a maximum of 8%.
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