The safety manager is responsible for making sure that ISO26262 is complied to in the project. He/She shall lead and monitor the safety relevant activities of the project.
Required skills
Degree: Master’s degree in electrical engineering/computer science/mathematics, or similar degree, or comparable work experience
Solid understanding of functional safety management
Knowledge in project management
Deep understanding of quality criteria and the correlating methods and procedures to achieve and verify them
Technical know-how of embedded systems
Preferred training: Automotive Functional Safety Expert (AFSE) or similar
Knowledge of standards
Experience
2 years of experience in the management of safety topics
Experience in managing projects
Experience in managing safety anomalies
Responsibility
Creating the Safety Plan
Functional Safety related project status reporting
Creation and Monitoring of completeness of the safety case
Reporting of safety anomalies
Verify, that the preconditions for the “release for production”, which are part of the release notes, are fulfilled, and the correctness, completeness and consistency of the release notes
Coaching the project team w.r.t all questions related to functional safety
Planning of safety audit
Approval of OSS component classification and safety analyses (incl. DFA)
Creating the safety manuals on platform and module level
Checking that every person in his team has sufficient safety skills for his role
Authority
Escalation of planning topics to the project manager defined in the safety plan
Initiate the publication of a safety anomaly
Recommend the Release of a SW platform or a module
Refusing the approval of work products as defined in the workflows
Refusing the approval of his team’s role nomination (i.e. requesting that the role will be withdrawn)
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