DFMEA Facilitator

Role & responsibilities

• Design FMEA Facilitator: Lead the implementation of the Tenneco FMEA process to the regional organization.
• Evaluation and tracking of regional FMEA related skills and preparing and managing FMEA engineering competency matrix.
• Arrange, manage and conduct FMEA training, ensure training material remains current and representative to Tennecos standards.
• Ensure project teams follow Tenneco standard DFMEA procedures and apply the templates and tools effectively.
• Ensure DFMEA content quality, consistency of nomenclature, and normalization of scoring across all projects.
• Develop and maintain a DFMEA database to manage document maturity and versioning.
• Develop and maintain (KPI) metrics on status, completeness, and quality of project DFMEA documents.
• Track and deploy lessons learned from projects and feedback into the generic DFMEA content.
• Accountable for ensuring DFMEAs for all projects are completed to Tenneco FMEA standards and quality. Includes the tracking of risk metrics and managing a DFMEA action tracker for each project team.
• Follows the Tenneco launch process timing to ensure project DFMEA document meets the required maturity level in accordance with each program gate.
• Work extensively as a mentor to provide guidance and training to engineering teams.
• Support failure analysis and problem-solving activities to ensure DFMEA documents reflect risk identifiers.
• Help project teams to ensure standardization of scoring, risk ranking, application of classification identification, and ensure quality and consistency of defined controls and actions.
• Reviews Design Change Notices and ensures FMEA document change process is followed to assess design change risk as needed with the Design Release Engineer.
• Creation of DFMEA report for respective project Design and Manufacturing Sign-Off meetings
• Lead system/subsystem/component generic DFMEA initiatives in conjunction with Global Systems Engineering team
• Advocate for the NA regional team during the implementation of new AIAG/VDA DFMEA standards.
• Manage and maintain Tenneco FMEA software tools and templates and develop strategies for conversion into customer specified FMEA formats.
• Conduct continuous improvement activities such as template management, new methods of development, and integration of industry standard FMEA process enhancements.
• Interface with customers as the lead Tenneco FMEA expert to ensure alignment.
• Other duties as assigned.

Preferred candidate profile

Experience in

AIAG-VDA

SAE-J1739 processes

DFMEA, PFMEA