Project: Establishment of functional safety management and operational project support
Client: Punch Powertrain (Sint-Truiden, Belgium)
Period: May 2016 – February 2017
Role: Functional Safety Manager & Functional Safety Engineer
I was entrusted by Punch Powertrain with the dual role of establishing the discipline of functional safety from scratch within the company and actively supporting ongoing development projects for automatic transmissions.
My core responsibilities and results:
- Establishment of the entire functional safety management system (FSMS): I developed and implemented the complete process landscape, including the basic guidelines, methodologies, and strategies. To anchor the processes in everyday work, I also created a comprehensive set of templates and checklists to facilitate standard-compliant work.
- Competence development and training: A key part of my role was training and guiding the engineering teams in the principles of functional safety. I trained colleagues to become independent safety engineers in order to embed this knowledge in the company in the long term.
- Operational project support as a safety engineer: Parallel to the strategic development, I actively supported safety-related projects in transmission development. This included the creation of safety concepts, the detailed specification of safety requirements, and the performance of critical safety analyses (FMEA & FMEDA).
Project impact: My work helped create a sustainable and standards-compliant R&D culture at Punch Powertrain. The company is now able to independently develop and validate complex, safety-critical automatic transmissions in accordance with established standards. I not only defined the processes, but also trained employees to bring these processes to life.
