Key Responsibilities and Activities
- Product Design:
- Set strategic design direction and own requirements for the interior and restraints team
- Provide technical oversight, expertise and guidance for interior and restraints team
- Direct key contracts for Transition’s automotive crash safety activities:
- Crash safety analyses performed by outside vendors using Madymo and LS-Dyna
- Headliner and impact foam design, analysis and procurement
- Airbags and Airbag Control Unit (ACU) procurement
- Track compliance with FMVSS crash safety requirements
- Direct vehicle-level crash tests, write test plans, review results, and write test reports
- Work closely with other departments to ensure high-value tests and simulations properly capture vehicle configuration and collect required data, and ensure results are disseminated effectively
- Recommend additional test efforts and/or design changes based on vehicle crash data and simulations
- Travel to subcontractors and partners in the US, Europe and/or China (15% travel)
- Team Leadership:
- Set assignments for team and provide oversight of work
- Mentor and develop engineers
- Management:
- Track and report progress toward product technical, schedule and cost goals
- Manage day-to-day design process and design reviews
- Work with program management to clearly outline alternatives, pros/cons, and risk mitigations to different projects