# Restraints Engineer

**Company**: Ford
**Location**: Naucalpan de Juarez
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

The Restraints Quality D&R Engineer is responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of occupant protection components,such as airbags (driver, passenger, side, curtain, knee), seatbelts, steering columns, and crash sensors.

This role ensures that these safety-critical systems not only meet rigorous design intent and functional requirements but also adhere to the highest quality standards throughout the Global Product Development System (GPDS) cycle.

**Key Responsibilities**

### Component Design and Releasing

- Lead the design, development, and release of restraint components using Ford’s internal systems (e.g., WERS - Worldwide Engineering Release System).

- Manage deliverables through the GPDS landscape, ensuring all engineering signs-offs (e.g., FEC, LoC) are completed on time for vehicle launches.

- Collaborate with Studio and Body Engineering to ensure restraint components are packaged correctly within the vehicle interior while maintaining deployment clearance and ergonomic requirements.

### Quality and Robustness

- Lead the development of DFMEA (Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) and PFMEA (Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) to identify and mitigate risks early in the design phase.

- Identify and manage Significant/Critical Characteristics (CC/SC) to ensure supplier manufacturing processes remain capable of producing parts to specification.

- Utilize Ford’s G8D (Global 8 Discipline) process and Six Sigma methodologies to resolve complex technical issues, whether they occur during prototype builds or in the field.

### Validation and Compliance

- Ensure all components comply with global safety regulations, including FMVSS (Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards), ECE, and CNCAP requirements.

- Define and execute Design Verification (DV) and Production Validation (PV) plans. This includes overseeing component-level testing (e.g., deployment at temperature extremes, environmental aging) and supporting full-vehicle crash testing.

- Interpret sled test and crash test data to refine component performance and ensure occupant injury criteria are met.

### Supplier and Cross-Functional Leadership

- Act as the primary technical point of contact for Tier 1 safety suppliers (e.g., Autoliv, ZF, Joyson). Monitor supplier APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) progress and PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) readiness.

- Provide on-site engineering support at Ford Assembly Plants (Vehicle Operations) during Pre-Program (TT, PP, MP1) builds to resolve fit-and-finish or assembly-related issues.

## Skills

### Required
- Safety Standards
- Ford Systems
- Engineering Tools
- Quality Tools

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