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To ensure a safe manufacturing environment, our Occupational Health and Safety Engineering team plays a crucial role in hazard prevention, conducting safety audits, providing training, and implementing risk mitigation strategies.

• Perform tooling/machine and facility safety design reviews and buy offs for launches.
• Review/lead cross functional teams to perform risk assessments.
• Work with vendors/contractors on; Risk Assessment, Pre-Task Analysis (PTA), Workstation Readiness, Energy Control and Power Lockout (ECPL) Placarding reviews, etc.
• Communicate safety lessons learned between Manufacturing Engineering, Plant Safety and submit these into standards and specifications for application into new programs.
• Interpret, clarify and communicate requirements of international standards.
• Represent PTME/BME in a variety of safety forums as needed including construction safety council, manufacturing safety council, engineering alignment meetings, joint communication meetings with the UAW National Ford Department.
• Subject matter expert for machine guarding and control systems to meet regulatory and Ford Machine Guarding Standards.
• Complete plant floor buy-offs utilizing the Ford progressive tagging system (PROTAG).
• Work with PTME/BME Engineers and Plant safety to ensure the PTME/BME Organization and Tooling vendors are following the Safety Buyoff Procedure.
• Follow procedures set out in the Ford Global Standards, conduct design reviews and sign-off material handling equipment for safety and ergonomics.
• Engage and communicate the proactive safety process to the PTME/BME engineering community.
• Drive construction safety processes during all PTME/BME launches.
• Use of the tools governed by the Manufacturing Engineering safety procedures and standards, including but not limited to; Risk Assessment, Pre-Task Analysis, Workstation Readiness and ECPL Placarding.
• Support PTME/BME Safety team in global safety process, training, development and administration.
• Assist/Lead program safety launches including demo, construction and commissioning.
• Conduct 100% design and build reviews and sign off per the Ford safety and engineering standards.
• Engage and communicate the proactive safety process to the PTME/BME engineering community.
• Support PTME/BME functional areas with safety issues when they come up at plants that may not be launch related.
• Work with contractors to help teach & coach during launch activities.
• Participate in standard reviews and be able to find standards and communicate them to the customer to solve problems
• Work with PTME/BME Controls teams to ensure compliance to company standards.
• Flexible for travel to local or out of state and out of state/country up to 30% of the time