Engineer FMEA - Li Ion Cell Validation

The FMEA Engineer leads FMEA activities for prismatic battery cell design from concept through validation, identifying potential electrical, mechanical, thermal, chemical, and safety-related failure modes.

The role evaluates and prioritizes risks, defines preventive and detection controls, and drives effective mitigation actions in collaboration with cross-functional teams, ensuring robust, reliable, and safe cell design while incorporating design validation results, lessons learned, and customer requirements into the FMEA.

This role reports to the Lead - Cell Validation.

Role & responsibilities

1. FMEA Development & Maintenance

• FMEA Ownership: Develop and maintain FMEA for prismatic cell design, strengthening process controls and defining process capability requirements.
• Failure Mode Identification: Identify electrical, mechanical, thermal, chemical, and safety-related failure modes across the cell design lifecycle.
• Continuous Update: Incorporate design validation results, lessons learned, and customer requirements into the FMEA on an ongoing basis.

2. Risk Assessment & Mitigation

• Risk Evaluation: Evaluate and prioritize risks based on severity, occurrence, and detectability.
• Control Definition: Define preventive and detection controls to mitigate identified failure modes.
• Mitigation Tracking: Drive effective mitigation actions in collaboration with cross-functional teams, tracking actions to closure.

3. Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborate with Cell Design, R&D, Testing, Quality, Manufacturing, and Supplier teams to align FMEA outputs with design and process requirements.
• Validation Support: Support validation activities, root-cause analysis, and design improvement initiatives arising from FMEA findings.

Preferred candidate profile

Qualifications:

Bachelor's/Master's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Chemical, Materials Engineering, or a related discipline; FMEA certification is preferred.

Location:

Based out of Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in FMEA preferably AIAG-VDA, battery cell development, or product engineering.
• Experience with commercial FMEA software and PLM platforms.
• Experience with prismatic Li-ion cells and battery safety is preferred.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong knowledge of FMEA methodology and risk assessment techniques.
• Understanding of prismatic cell design and associated failure mechanisms.
• Good analytical, problem-solving, and cross-functional communication skills.
• Ability to drive mitigation actions to closure across multiple stakeholder teams