eMotor Concepts FMEA Lead

At Tata Technologies we make product development dreams a reality by designing, engineering and validating the products of tomorrow for the world’s leading manufacturers. Due to our continued growth we are now recruiting for an eMachine Concept FMEA Lead Engineer to be based at our customer’s site in Gaydon.

Our Engineering Research and Development department (ER&D) is a fast-growing function within Tata Technologies Limited that is assembled to work on exciting projects globally for multiple customers. It comprises highly specialized engineers across Automotive, Aerospace and Industrial Heavy Machinery.

The eMachine Concept FMEA Lead Engineer plays a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability and safety of electric machine systems during the early stages of product development. This role focuses on identifying potential failure modes, assessing their impact on system performance, and implementing preventive measures before detailed design begins. By applying structured risk analysis methodologies, the engineer helps shape robust architectures for electric motors, ensuring they meet stringent automotive standards for quality, safety, and performance.

The purpose of this role is to ensure the delivery of the eMachine DFMEA, evaluating existing foundation DFMEAs from existing projects and introducing the new failure modes identified through the early development work. The CFMEA engineers will work in a cross-functional team including design, manufacturing, quality and safety, in a top-down approach with requirements and attributes cascaded from larger systems.

Area of Responsibility

• Deliver the Concept FMEA for the electric machine as a system and its sub-components.
• Agree the functional and physical interaction of the components within the eMachine and also the external interfaces.
• System Design Specification – prepare system requirements specification and developing functional designs, demonstrating how the system satisfies the defined customer requirements.
• System Integration – Define system logical and physical architecture, Interface Control Document and a system integration plan.
• Requirements and test cases authoring for both eMachine as a system and its sub-components.
• Assist and contribute to the generation of targets and verification methods that are driven by Customer, Function Requirements and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis.
• Provide technical support and assistance across the Advanced eMachine team on topics relating to the integration and harmonisation of multiple interconnected components including issue resolution and objective data analysis.
• Follow guidance from Technical Specialists and Advanced Engineering on Attribute and Function Forward Strategies, including new Function Definition and Failure Mode Avoidance.
• Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested.

Key interactions: Advanced eMachine component and subcomponent design engineers; Advanced EDU system team; Advanced EDU integration team; Advanced Inverter team.

Knowledge / Experience

• Good relevant experience (minimum 5 years) of working in a Systems Engineering environment - ideally within the Automotive Sector.
• Expertise in eMachines, especially their thermal and electromagnetic behaviour.
• Working knowledge on inverters and Electric Drive units.
• Requirements Management.
• Good verbal and written communications.
• Analytical and problem solving skills.
• Relevant experience of system definition, system architecture development, requirements specification, design/performance modelling, systems integration, system assessment and acceptance.
• Full driving licence.
• Experience in applying Systems Engineering and in solving complex technical issues using a structured approach.
• A PhD level of education with relevant industrial research is preferred.
• Model based engineering (MBE).
• Experience in IBM Rational DOORS.

In return for bringing your expertise to our business we offer a competitive salary along with excellent benefits including:

• Pension Scheme – We match employee contribution up to 5% of salary.
• Tata Jaguar Land Rover Privilege Scheme - up to 20% off new JLR vehicles.
• Health Assured – Employee Assistance Program.
• Health Shield – Private Health Cash Plan.

If you are passionate about bringing innovation to the projects you work on and want to join a global company, then this is the place for you.

Tata Technologies would like to thank all applicants for their interest, each application will be reviewed against the set criteria for the role. We would like to advise that only candidates under consideration will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within 10 working days following the closing date it will mean that unfortunately your application has not been successful. We will however retain your details for any suitable future opportunities.