Functional Safety Engineer

Working for Yacht

Yacht is the organisation of and for professionals. We connect professionals and organisations that make the difference. Our goal is the optimal result: to offer you, as a professional, challenging work in which you can permanently improve our clients’ organisations. Are you one of the best professionals in your field? Do you want to work with colleagues to make the difference in leading (international) organisations? If so, we’d like to get to know you better.

As a Mechanical Engineer at Yacht, you’ll work on innovative technical projects for top organisations. And you’ll work in an international environment with colleagues who are just as decisive and ambitious as you. What you’ll do here is work that really matters. You and your colleagues are the driving force behind progress. 

Interested?

We obviously don’t need to explain Newton’s third law to you; so, get into action and apply for the position of Mechanical Engineer right now. We’ll get back to you without delay. (Please use the "Solliciteer" button to submit your application)

If we see a match based on your application:

1.      we will contact you as soon as possible;

2.      we will invite you to an interview at the Yacht office or, in the case of international candidates, via Skype;

3.      we’ll introduce you to the client if we have a click. After that, you’ll do one or two interviews.

4.      If you and the client are a good match, you’ll be able to start as a Mechanical Engineer right away!

If you need any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us on +31 6 827 246 09 or e-mail Robert.Dolmans@yacht.nl. 

For our client Punch Powertrain we are looking for a Functional Safety Engineer (Medior/Senior) for Punch Powertrain products, who has the potential to become a manager. You will be responsible for the following variety of tasks:

• Analyze impact of ISO26262 standard for Punch Powertrain and create Functional Safety awareness across departments
• Accountable for all functional safety specific processes
• Lead and coordinate creation of functional safety documentation according ISO26262 
• Perform safety management activities according to relevant standards during all project phases (concept, product development, production) including preliminary hazard analysis, DFMEA, FMEDA, qualitative and quantitative fault tree analysis
• Analyze and review safety architectures and safety plans 
• Review safety requirements to the systems, subsystems, and component levels in product portfolio. 
• Collaborate with project managers, development team and customers on Functional Safety aspects
• Conduct reviews with product teams to ensure functional safety standards are being met throughout product development cycles

Candidates with less than 5 years of experience can unfortunately not be considered.

To succeed in this position, you bring experience in:

• Detailed knowledge and proven practical case experience with ISO 26262 standard
• Knowledge of Functional Safety Theory, with specific on-the-job experience. Preferably holds a safety certification
• Experience in Software development and their maturity standards ( e.g., SPICE, CMMI )
• Experience with Products Development Life Cycle (Systems, Software)
• Knowledge of Requirements Management tools ( e.g. Polarion, DOORS)
• You have an engineering degree (preferable E&E) and at least 5 years of experience in product development (ideally in automotive safety related products)
• You have a thorough knowledge and experience in at least one field (electronics, embedded SW or system control strategy) and a good awareness of the others. 
• Experience in powertrain technologies (vehicle dynamics, transmissions, engines, EV, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience with system engineering approaches (requirements engineering / management, functional analysis and allocation, architecture design, validation and verification) and experience with change & configuration management.
• You are familiar with automotive development and quality process (FMEA/FTA/FMEDA methods/tools)
• The ability to communicate complex ideas persuasively to peers, management and customers
• Good technical leadership, planning and organization/control skills
• Good risk management skills, weighting development effort against added value and safety against availability
• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills, motivating team into problem-solving
• Strong decision maker when subjected to limited information, to be translated into assumptions to be verified 
• Fluent in spoken and written English

Yacht not only makes your step into the Dutch automotive industry more than worth it, we also make it really easy. The employment conditions are excellent, and Yacht will take care of every last detail of your relocation.

Job Conditions

·        A unique challenge and a matching salary.

·        Job security: you will immediately receive an employment contract for a year, as well as a guarantee that we will always have challenging assignments for you with interesting start-ups, suppliers and OEMs in the Netherlands.

·        Plenty of opportunity to develop yourself as a Mechanical Engineer. Yacht will support you with a personal development plan and a wide range of study opportunities.

·        Yacht will also take charge of all the arrangements concerning your application and relocation. We have a department that specialises in this, and they know exactly what needs to be done. We will also arrange and pay for your flight for the job interview. If it all works out, we’ll apply for your visa and help you find accommodation and, for example, open your bank account in the Netherlands. And we’ll obviously include your partner and children in the whole process. For a few more important basics, please also take a look at: https://www.yacht.nl/professionals/living-and-working-in-the-netherlands).