FMEA Engineer

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

Lead and Facilitate FMEA Activities:

Guide cross‑functional teams through structured FMEA sessions, ensuring proper methodology and engagement from all stakeholders. Develop and Maintain High-Quality FMEA Documentation:

Create and update DFMEAs/PFMEAs, keeping them aligned with evolving designs, processes, and quality documents. Analyze Risks and Drive Mitigation Actions:

Identify high‑risk failure modes, assign priorities, coordinate corrective or preventive actions, and ensure risks are reduced effectively. Ensure Compliance With Industry Standards:

Apply AIAG‑VDA, Agratas and customer-specific requirements while maintaining audit-ready, compliant FMEA documentation. Collaborate With Cross-Functional Teams:

Work closely with design, manufacturing, quality, and other teams to ensure shared understanding of risks and required controls. Integrate FMEA Into Product Development & Change Management:

Embed FMEA into early design stages, process planning, and change control, ensuring alignment with control plans and engineering changes. Reporting:

Reporting on overall progress as well as project risks identified through FMEA analysis. Provide Training and Coaching:

Teach and mentor teams on FMEA concepts and tools, helping build organizational capability in risk-based thinking. Use and Maintain Supporting Tools:

Manage FMEA software and templates, ensuring consistency, data integrity, and effective use of available tools. Support Customer and Supplier Interactions:

Review supplier FMEAs, engage with customers on risk topics, and ensure customer-specific requirements are integrated. Promote a Culture of Risk Prevention:

Encourage proactive risk identification, escalate systemic issues, and feed lessons learned into future designs and processes.

Qualifications: Proven experience in leading FMEA activities within automotive, battery, or advanced manufacturing sectors. Strong understanding of APQP, Six Sigma, and risk management frameworks. Skilled in facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and technical documentation. Familiarity with digital FMEA tools and platforms (e.g., APS-IQ). Experience in training and capability development is highly desirable. Experience with cross-functional programme delivery. Familiarity with battery systems or electrified powertrains is desirable. Exposure to digital quality tools or model-based systems engineering.

Key Competencies: Collaborative mindset with strong communication and influencing skills. Analytical thinker with a proactive approach to problem-solving. Ability to manage multiple priorities across global teams. Strategic thinking and ability to align quality initiatives with business objectives. Change leadership to embed FMEA culture across global teams.