Ovidiu Mic

Senior manufacturing and quality leader with 17+ years of industrial experience, including 13 years in Quality Management and a current group-level FMEA role supporting four manufacturing sites across Europe and China. Proven people leader with 29 direct reports and broad responsibility for Quality Engineering, Supplier Quality, incoming and production quality, final inspection, laboratory, metrology and test-field activities. Strong background in IATF, VDA 6.3, automotive Core Tools, QMS, process risk management, customer and supplier quality, cost reduction and continuous improvement.

Experienced in leading multidisciplinary teams, driving measurable quality improvements and connecting Quality, Production and Engineering in international manufacturing environments.

FMEA Moderator AO-Group - Optibelt Power Transmission

(2022)

• Coordinate group-level PFMEA activities across four manufacturing sites, including three plants in Europe and one in China.
• Lead and moderate approximately 12 multidisciplinary PFMEA projects per year, facilitating structured process-risk analysis and cross-functional alignment.
• Apply a PDCA-based approach to risk reduction and action follow-up, maintaining PFMEAs as living documents that evolve with process changes, quality issues, lessons learned and emerging risks.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary decisions on preventive measures and improvement actions, coordinating interfaces among technical experts, Quality, Production and other relevant functions.
• Support customer-specific FMEA discussions when required for defined issues or situations.

Quality Manager - Optibelt Power Transmission

(2009 - 2022)

• Led and managed a 29-person Quality organization covering Quality Engineering, Supplier Quality, Incoming Inspection, Process/Production Quality, Final Inspection, Laboratory, Metrology and Test Field.
• Held responsibility for plant Quality performance and KPIs, including customer complaints and PPM, internal defect rates, scrap, rework, Cost of Poor Quality, supplier performance, audit results, customer satisfaction, warranty and returns.
• Led the organization through the IATF certification process and held responsibility for the Quality Management System, Management Review and Quality performance reporting.
• Led and represented the organization in IATF, ISO 9001, VDA 6.3, customer, supplier and internal audits.
• Achieved an approximately 30% reduction in the number of customer-claimed products through systematic quality improvement, root-cause analysis and preventive actions.
• Achieved an average scrap reduction of approximately 15% through defect prevention and cross-functional process improvement.
• Coordinated the Quality qualification of Optibelt as an automotive supplier to Bosch, leading APQP/PPAP, audits, validation, FMEA and Control Plan activities through successful series-production release in 2019.
• Implemented a digitalization initiative for automatic scanning of production records and transfer of production data into a database, reducing manual data handling and improving data availability.
• Developed the capabilities of the 29-person Quality organization through general and role-specific training and qualification programs, with focused development in Quality and Quality Management.

Bachelor of Engineering - Electromechanical Engineering - CUNBM University