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Functional Safety Manager

AT Cummins
Cummins

Functional Safety Manager

Columbus, IN

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a talented Functional Safety Manager to join our team specializing in Engineering for our Columbus, IN office.

Job Summary:

This product focused, developing leadership position performs established technical tasks at the product and cross-business integration level for current and future products within a given business unit or corporate area. This involves work across many steps in the product life cycle. Because of the product centered nature of this position, they are very often a central point of coordination and decision making between product engineers, product line engineers, customer teams, purchasing, suppliers and manufacturing.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

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  • Enhance Product Reliability : By identifying and mitigating potential failure modes, you'll improve the reliability of Cummins' products, ensuring they meet high standards of performance and durability.
  • Inform Design Decisions: Utilizing modeling, simulation, and analysis tools, you'll provide critical insights that influence product design, ensuring that products meet their functional requirements at all levels.
  • Manage Interfaces and Integration: You'll ensure seamless integration of system elements by managing interfaces and interactions, which will help in maintaining product quality and performance.
  • Solve Product Problems: Your problem-solving skills will be crucial in identifying root causes of issues, implementing data-driven solutions, and preventing recurrence, thereby protecting customer satisfaction.
  • Validate Product Systems: By developing and managing validation plans, you'll verify product capabilities and validate requirements, ensuring that products meet their intended use and performance criteria.
  • Translate Stakeholder Needs: Using systems requirements engineering, you'll translate stakeholder needs into verifiable requirements, ensuring that designs are aligned with customer expectations and project goals.
  • Apply Systems Thinking: You'll analyze and understand the interactions within the system, predicting behavior and making necessary modifications to achieve desired outcomes, thereby optimizing system performance.
  • Build Effective Networks: By building strong relationships within and outside the organization, you'll facilitate collaboration and communication, driving innovation and continuous improvement.

RESPONSIBILITIES

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

  • Enhance Product Reliability : By identifying and mitigating potential failure modes, you'll improve the reliability of Cummins' products, ensuring they meet high standards of performance and durability.
  • Inform Design Decisions: Utilizing modeling, simulation, and analysis tools, you'll provide critical insights that influence product design, ensuring that products meet their functional requirements at all levels.
  • Manage Interfaces and Integration: You'll ensure seamless integration of system elements by managing interfaces and interactions, which will help in maintaining product quality and performance.
  • Solve Product Problems: Your problem-solving skills will be crucial in identifying root causes of issues, implementing data-driven solutions, and preventing recurrence, thereby protecting customer satisfaction.
  • Validate Product Systems: By developing and managing validation plans, you'll verify product capabilities and validate requirements, ensuring that products meet their intended use and performance criteria.
  • Translate Stakeholder Needs: Using systems requirements engineering, you'll translate stakeholder needs into verifiable requirements, ensuring that designs are aligned with customer expectations and project goals.
  • Apply Systems Thinking: You'll analyze and understand the interactions within the system, predicting behavior and making necessary modifications to achieve desired outcomes, thereby optimizing system performance.
  • Build Effective Networks: By building strong relationships within and outside the organization, you'll facilitate collaboration and communication, driving innovation and continuous improvement.

Education, Licenses, Certifications:

College, university, or equivalent Bachelor's degree in Engineering or appropriate STEM field is required.

Post-graduate (Master's) degree relevant to this discipline area may be required for select roles.

This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience:

Demonstrated success having worked in a Technical Specialist/Specialist Engineering role on lower complexity product development activities, translating customer needs and negotiating into product development plans, technical profiles and/or product specifications with a proven track record of successful product decisions.

QUALIFICATIONS

The candidate will act as a Functional Safety Manager for the Accelera Business. In this regard, a familiarity with the principles of developing automotive products to the requirements of ISO 26262 is essential.

The candidate will be a co-ordinator of the safety plan, aligning the expectations, procedures, and results required from the cross-functional teams which contribute to the functional safety workstream of the supported programs.

Prior experience in the management of product development teams is required. The Functional Safety Manager will allocate tasks, align schedules and resources to ensure timely and high-quality completion of the activities relating to compliance with ISO 26262.

Please note that the salary range provided is a good faith estimate on the applicable range. The final salary offer will be determined after considering relevant factors, including a candidate's qualifications and experience, where appropriate.

Job Engineering

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category Hybrid

Job Type Exempt - Experienced

Min Salary $112000

Max Salary $168000

ReqID 2410090

Relocation Package No

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Client-provided location(s): Columbus, IN, USA
Job ID: Cummins-R-C386804ECB8A47B18A1724CC7AB939B8
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • On-Site Gym
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
  • Parental Benefits

    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Company Outings
    • Casual Dress
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Leave of Absence
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Paid Holidays
  • Financial and Retirement

    • Relocation Assistance
    • Performance Bonus
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Pension
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
  • Professional Development

    • Mentor Program
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Tuition Reimbursement