Mehdi Bouhou

🔧 Validation & Verification (V&V) Manager – ACC (Automotive Cells Company)

🔋 Expert in electric vehicle batteries & advanced thermal components – Automotive industry

I lead Validation & Verification activities at ACC, a European leader in automotive batteries. My role is to ensure product compliance, functional performance, and quality excellence for components delivered to the client, particularly advanced cooling systems.

🚀 Main missions:

📌 Development and management of validation plans (DVP&R, test plans)

🧪 Supervision of internal & external testing campaigns: mechanical, thermal, electrical tests

✅ Strict adherence to project schedules, quality milestones, and allocated budgets

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Supervision and coordination of multidisciplinary teams (engineers, technicians, subcontractors)

📦 Management of client deliverables: PPAP, BOM, FMEA, RFQ, control plans, V&V reporting

🛠️ Key skills:

🔧 Product/process validation according to IATF 16949 & ISO 26262 standards

📊 Monitoring and reporting of quality & V&V KPIs

🛠 Management of client feedback (GFI) and corrective actions

💼 Direct collaboration with project, quality, industrialization, and supplier teams

📈 Continuous improvement, implementation of action plans (PDCA, 8D, 5Why, Ishikawa)

💬 Fluent communication in French, English, and Arabic

🛠 Specialist in aerospace components & testing according to RTCA DO-160

I managed the Validation & Verification phases of embedded systems for complex aerospace projects, ensuring compliance with RTCA DO-160 standards. My role covered test planning, technical interface management, and regulatory documentation drafting.

🎯 Key responsibilities:

🧪 Management of multi-domain testing campaigns: EMI, hydraulics, mechanics, climate

🗂 Coordination between design, testing, and manufacturing teams

📊 Monitoring of project milestones and validation deliverables (test reports, lessons learned)

👥 Facilitation of launch and steering committees (kick-off, steering committees)

📅 Planning of test phases, resource estimation, and cost management

📈 Contribution to defining the scope and technical requirements for validation

🧾 Drafting of final reports, consolidation of lessons learned, and closing of the V&V package

🛠️ Skills applied:

RTCA DO-160 standard & aerospace regulations

Coordination with internal & external laboratories

Cross-functional technical project management

Validation of critical avionics components

Project communication with stakeholders (internal & client)

• Preparation and installation of tests from an electrical perspective as requested in the written procedure (QTP).

• Performance of functional tests on the bench (Coc).

• Drafting of test reports (QTR).

• Investigation and resolution of installation anomalies.

• Configuration of Monitoring files (CAN/ARINC).

• Drafting of anomaly sheets (QCR/QTD).

• Workload estimation

• Management of blocking points

• Decision-making and technical support

• Drafting of qualification reports

• Communication to management and/or workshop departments

• Action tracking and follow-ups (Report, QTR, QTP, QCR)

• Support for supporting departments

• Participation in internal projects