Responsibilities:

•Target setting: Undertake benchmarking, set targets at vehicle, system, and component level to enable internal, regulatory, and public domain safety performance

•Content specification: Define vehicle and restraints content to enable program targets

•Occupant safety CAE simulation: LS-Dyna simulation with pre and post processing tools, including issue resolution, development and optimization of vehicle interior, seatbelts, and airbags for occupant injury criteria

•Test Planning: Liaison with PMTs to organize safety test planning at sub system and full vehicle level

•Logistics: Support test logistics globally to ensure right parts, right place at the right time

•Execution of tests: Supervision of testing to ensure execution to the right specification, to right quality level and in a timely manner

•Analysis: Analyse test data and use observation to draw correct conclusions from the tests.

•Decision making: Use the test/CAE data conclusions to draw together proposals to recommend to management or if possible/necessary decide independently

•Implementation: Supervise the implementation of the design modifications resulting from the test decision making

•Closure: Test to demonstrate compliance to target and feedback via formal reports to the organization

The candidate must:

•have a detailed understanding of how to set and achieve the most demanding occupant safety targets

•have the ability to clearly, calmly and effectively communicate conclusions drawn from analyses

•work closely with the senior occupant engineers, the structural CAE safety team and other engineering teams to achieve the program targets

•actively seek out, understand and implement global best practice in occupant safety methodology

•be able to critique CAE, correlate CAE and analyse physical test results to seek out quality issues/improvements

•work with all other engineering teams to understand and resolve occupant safety related design issues.

•be able to organize and track testing and analysis projects

•effectively run meetings and agendas

•continually improve understanding of crash occupant kinematics, impact biomechanics and changing crash requirements globally

•have the drive to take ownership of the attribute and lead the team to resolve issues & achieve their targets

•Minimum bachelor degree in Engineering or related discipline (e.g. Aero / Mech Eng) with 5 or above years of work experience, MS or PhD. preferred;

•Using commercial crash software, preferably using Ls-Dyna, ANSA, Primer, Hyperworks and/or equivalent