Engineering Specialist, Functional Safety

Job Summary

The number and complexity of the functions of our agricultural engineering products has increased significantly. This trend is expected to continue over the next few years, but the pace of change will continue to increase. AGCO's solution to this is a modular platform strategy to develop technologies and solutions in a way that allows us to reuse these innovations across different products and brands. Another challenge is that state-of-the-art features must be developed to meet global product liability regulations. In agriculture, standards such as ISO 25119, ISO 13849, ISO 12000, etc., drive this definition.

To meet these requirements and also to avoid systematic and random hardware failures in the safety lifecycle, certain processes must be followed during development.

The resulting process must be integrated with the rest of the AGCO Group's processes. Specifically, the new product development process, which involves cross-functional product management, engineering, manufacturing, production, purchasing and marketing.

The Senior Manager, Global Head of Functional Safety will lead this function globally. The job holder will have strategic responsibility for the direction of operations as well as operational responsibility for the function. The job holder will report to the Director, Platform Office.

Job Responsabilities
- Technical and personnel management of the group of safety managers
- Provide technical leadership to the group consisting of safety engineer and assessment engineer
- Provide functional safety technical guidance and processes to delivery teams.
- You will ensure that the required safety culture is driven.You will ensure that each Functional Safety team member knows what the strategy is, what the priorities are and how they align with the long term vision
- You support or lead the development of FuSa best practices, guidance and training per competency.
- You will ensure that the functional safety process is implemented in a consistent manner globally.
- Manage strategic and operational planning for the entire functional product safety function.
- Ensure the right skills and attitudes are in place across the function.
- Ensure inspiring work environment, right tools and right processes to support rapid delivery.
- Support independent audits and assessments for an assigned project.
- Monitor national and international regulations from the Functional Safety domain, as a basis for internal guidance and participation in regulatory bodies.
- Monitor team success and consolidated success of the function.
- Assist teams in building good relationships with appropriate stakeholders to ensure smooth cross-functional support and collaboration.
- Develop roadmaps, drive planning, execution, schedule optimization and prioritization. Maintain an up-to-date project schedule and lead meetings to resolve conflicts, facilitate decision making and drive timely execution.Mitigate risk, track and report regularly, schedule trends against baseline, prepare recovery actions, report to management and communicate with stakeholders.

**Qualifications**:

- 5+ years experience in the development of safety critical functions in mechatronic machines
- At least 3+ years of relevant experience in functional safety management is required
- very good understanding of system engineering practices
- very good understanding of electronic control devices (ECUs)
- very good knowledge of the relevant standards for functional safety (ISO 25119, ISO 13849, ISO 26262, ISO 61508..)
- good understanding about software development practices
- Familiar with state-of-the-art project management methodologies
- Ability to define and develop new processes or continuously improve existing processes
- Functional safety certification is required
- Management/Leadership training is required

This position requires high analytical skills to understand the systems that are being developed and to recognize if parts of the system are potentially safety relevant.
In addition, the process of developing according to safety standards is complex and affected by many external influences.

KPIS
- Creation of all necessary documents in the safety lifecycle according to safety standards
- Status reports about the coverage of the safety portions of the system