Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Austin, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. Global company that specializes in manufacturing semiconductor devices used in computer processing. The company also produces flash memories, graphics processors, motherboard chip sets, and a variety of components used in consumer electronics goods.
Job Title: Functional Safety Technical Program Manager
Duration: 3 Months
Location: Southfield, MI
Job Type: Temporary assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Duration: 3 Months
Location: Southfield, MI
Job Type: Temporary assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
- We are seeking an experienced Functional Safety Technical Program Manager (FuSa TPM) to lead and govern functional safety activities for a complete vehicle program.
- This individual will serve as the primary functional safety authority, ensuring compliance with ISO 26262 requirements while driving safety deliverables from concept development through vehicle release.
- This role requires a highly organized and proactive leader who can identify risks early, influence cross-functional teams, and drive execution across engineering disciplines and supplier partners.
- The ideal candidate combines strong technical functional safety knowledge with program management expertise and hands-on experience in automotive product development.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain the Vehicle Functional Safety Plan.
- Lead functional safety governance activities and ensure compliance with ISO 26262 processes.
- Track safety deliverables and milestones across the vehicle program.
- Coordinate activities across Systems Engineering, Software, Hardware, Validation, Quality, Program Management, Regulatory, and Supplier teams.
- Support development and review of:
- Item Definitions
- HARA
- Safety Goals
- Functional Safety Concepts (FSC)
- Technical Safety Concepts (TSC)
- Safety Cases
- Safety Validation Reports
- FMEA, FMEDA, DFA, and FTA analyses
- Identify safety risks and drive mitigation plans.
- Participate in safety assessments, audits, confirmation reviews, and readiness reviews.
- Manage supplier functional safety activities, deliverables, and Development Interface Agreements (DIAs).
- Partner with Verification & Validation teams to ensure safety requirements are effectively tested and validated.
- Coordinate safety argument reviews and support vehicle safety case closure and release recommendations.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- 5+ years of automotive product development experience.
- 5+ years of Functional Safety Program Management experience.
- Strong knowledge of ISO 26262 and the functional safety lifecycle.
- Experience leading complete vehicle programs or major vehicle platform programs.
- Experience working with OEM and/or Tier 1 automotive suppliers.
- Experience managing suppliers and cross-functional engineering stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
- Ability to anticipate issues, drive solutions, and lead complex initiatives with minimal oversight.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience owning vehicle-level functional safety activities from concept through production.
- Hands-on experience supporting safety verification, validation, testing, and safety release activities.
- Experience reviewing and managing HARA, FSC, TSC, Safety Cases, and associated safety work products.
- Experience supporting EV, ADAS, or other advanced vehicle technologies.
- Familiarity with Jira and related project management/change management tools.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Southfield, MI |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $96.10 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Atlassian JIRAunmatched
- Change Managementunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Engineeringunmatched
- Consumer Electronicsunmatched
- Consumer Goods and Servicesunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)unmatched
- Functional Programming Languagesunmatched
- GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)unmatched
- ISO (International Organization for Standardization)unmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Microprocessorunmatched
- Motherboardsunmatched
- OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer)unmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Regulationsunmatched
- Risk Analysisunmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- Safety Complianceunmatched
- Safety Trainingunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Semiconductor Manufacturingunmatched
- Semiconductorsunmatched
- Systems Engineeringunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Test Requirementsunmatched
- Validation Testingunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Managementunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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