**DESCRIPTION** We are looking for a talented **Functional Safety Manager** to join our team specializing in **Engineering** for our **Product Safety department** in **Milton Keynes, Precedent House, United Kingdom.** **In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:** + Central Coordination: You'll be the key point of coordination between various teams, ensuring seamless integration and communication across product engineers, customer teams, suppliers, and manufacturing. + Quality Decision Making: By obtaining input from diverse stakeholders, you'll deliver recommendations that lead to high-quality product decisions, enhancing the overall product lifecycle. + Technical Expertise: Your systems knowledge and expertise will drive decisions in technology integration, design, analysis, and experimental test verification, impacting product form and functionality. + Process Improvement: You'll create, manage, and improve processes like ESW, iDFMEA, and FIRG, using specialized tools to support these processes and enable high-quality decision-making. + Problem Resolution: Leading problem resolution for complex systems with significant ambiguity and global impact, you'll ensure issues are addressed effectively and efficiently. + Work Process Leadership: You'll lead the development and improvement of work processes and systems across functions within a global business unit, driving continuous improvement. + Team Coordination: By coordinating and directing technical project teams, you'll manage and guide small to mid-sized teams, ensuring project goals are met. + Mentorship and Talent Development: As a recognized specialist, you'll coach and mentor other engineers, project managers, and cross-functional team members, fostering talent development and collaboration. **RESPONSIBILITIES** **To be successful in this role you will need the following:** + Expertise in Product Failure Mode Avoidance: Ability to identify and mitigate potential product failure modes by analyzing interfaces, functions, and interactions to improve product reliability. + Proficiency in Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis: Utilize computational tools to predict and analyze product capabilities, impacting design decisions at various system levels. + Strong Interface Management Skills: Identify and manage interfaces and interactions across system boundaries, ensuring products meet requirements and remain within specified limits. + Functional Safety Management Experience: Familiarity with ISO 26262 and experience in coordinating safety plans, aligning cross-functional team efforts, and managing product development teams to ensure compliance and high-quality outcomes. **QUALIFICATIONS** **Education/Experience:** + 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. **Job** Engineering **Organization** Cummins Inc. **Role Category** Hybrid **Job Type** Exempt - Experienced **ReqID** 2410069 **Relocation Package** No