Senior Functional Safety Engineer (m/f/d)

Job Overview

TE Connectivity’s Quality and Reliability Engineering Teams analyze the ability of product and production systems to comply with customer and contractual requirements through established reliability factors. They design, recommend revisions and install quality control systems, develop and document analytical methods for establishing reliability of products and their components and conduct analysis on relative reliability with regards to cost, structure, weight, maintainability, facility of production, and availability of materials and equipment. Out teams develop, implement and monitor company environmental safety programs and policies to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local environmental, health and safety regulations and recommend corrective actions if necessary. They are responsible for policies and practices to comply with applicable government regulations and industry requirements related to product environmental compliance, the implementation and management of technical and testing standards and specifications, quality control and reliability programs governing materials, product and processes, resulting in the optimization of material and labor, as well as failure analysis, root cause, corrective action and customer communication.

your tasks:

• Planning of measures for functional safety (safety plan)
• Supporting the engineering community in functional safety analyses and procedures, e.g. (FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, DFA)
• Review of functional safety procedures, safety analyses and metrics
• Timely preparation of FSM documentation ("safety case") 
• Negotiation and agreement of the required safety targets with the customers
• Coordinate and conduct FS reviews, audits and assessments in accordance with normative standards.  
• Review findings, closure rates and follow-up on projects
• Conduct supplier audits and assessments as required
• Communicate regularly with project managers and product and process development technical staff
• Identify and share FSM best practices within the regions and sites

 

Your Profile

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in electrical engineering or similar
• 3 - 5 years experience 
• Preferably professional experience in a technical environment and management systems
• Ability to work in a team
• Fluent in English and German, other languages are an advantage
• Ability to perform electrical circuit analysis
• Knowledge of IC and µC technology
• Preferably software programming skills (Assembler & C)
• Basic knowledge of management systems
• Strong analytical skills
• Crisis management and problem solving
• Willingness to deal with functional safety standards IEC 61508 and ISO 26262
• Basic knowledge of reliability engineering
• Preferably good statistical skills
• Ability to lead intercultural teams
• Preferably knowledge of safety analyses (FMEA, FMEDA, FTA, DFA)
• Good computer skills
   

Competencies