Sr. Reliability Engineer

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The Senior Reliability Engineer's primary duties are to utilize advanced level engineering skills to contribute to the development and qualification of power tool products. The Senior Reliability Engineer is a critical member of the New Product Development Team reporting to the Quality / Reliability Manager.

Throughout a product's development cycle, this position requires strong cross-functional communication skills and analytical expertise to help launch new and exciting solutions that meet user needs. You will work in a fast-paced environment to innovate new products as a member of a cross-functional team.

Duties and Responsibilities

Product Development

Lead teams for new product designs and engineering changes with respect to product reliability, user requirements and warranty information

Participate in User Need Research to identify "critical to quality" (CtQ) requirements on mechanical and electrical design features

Track multiple projects simultaneously to ensure adherence to schedule and the Milwaukee Tool process.

Support of Advanced Engineering activities at targeted CtQ needs

Collaborate with Engineering and Marketing to define the products' specifications leading in all aspects of reliability, quality and testing

Use designed experiment techniques to improve development efforts

Lead Risk Assessments (Design and Manufacturing) for NPD projects during the product development cycle

Interact with domestic and global suppliers that participate with product development

Testing / Analysis

Lead planning and analysis of product durable life through advanced reliability & testing techniques such as HALT, ALT and HASS

Ensure timely failure reporting and lead root cause analysis and effective corrective / preventative actions (FRACA)

Develop test plans and procedures based on new or established products, to ensure product meets customer requirements

Lead test laboratories implementing test plans / procedures ensuring full test completion and best practices are utilized

Analyze, draw conclusions, report and present product information utilizing statistical techniques such as Weibull analysis, reliability distributions and matrices, as well as provide mentorship and support to RE peers

Draw concise, logical, written conclusions from experiments based on data analysis

Job Requirements

Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or educational equivalent field

5+ years of experience in related reliability and quality field

Experience with new product commercialization processes emphasizing design, manufacturing, quality, test or reliability activities

Experience including training in quality engineering fundamentals and proven experience leading a primary function within a project team

Previous relevant experience with Design of Experiments, life data analysis, and other related statistical tools and software (i.e. Minitab, Reliasoft)

Written and verbal communication skills and creative problem-solving capabilities

Ability to travel 10% of the time is required (travel includes Domestic and International)

Preferred : ASQ Reliability Engineering Certification (ASQ-CRE) or the ability and desire to achieve certification

Preferred : Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) or Six Sigma experience

Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.

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