Sr. Principal Reliability Engineer (Foothill Ranch)

Sr. Principal Reliability Engineer

At Alcon, we are passionate about enhancing sight and helping people see brilliantly. With more than 25,000 associates, we innovate fearlessly, champion progress, and act swiftly to impact global eye health. We foster an inclusive culture, recognizing your contributions and offering opportunities to grow your career like never before. Together, we make a difference in the lives of our patients and customers.

We are looking for a Sr. Principal Reliability Engineer at our R&D location in Lake Forest, CA. In this role, you will be responsible for leading Alcon's reliability engineering strategy within product development programs to meet business targets, as defined in product requirements as well as the target product profiles.

In this role, a typical day will include :

• Reviews / critiques product designs, proposed processes, and testing regimens with the objective of ensuring a rigorous focus on reliability, quality, and compliance throughout the development process.
• Contributes unique expertise in key aspects of product design, including improvements of product reliability using various engineering tools, compliance to environmental / transportation requirements, effective utilization of simulation / analysis methods, and preproduction engineering design principles.
• Proven record of guiding / managing projects, teams, or departments to achieve timely goals while multi-tasking and meeting budget / resource constraints.
• Provides expert guidance on requirements development, test planning, test execution including fixturing and automation, issue management based on upon years of hands-on experience with a wide variety of products.
• Develops / executes automated test scripts, Labview programs, robotic programs, HALT, ALT, environmental, transportation, life testing, PCBA stress screening, engineering tests and / or V&V to ensure timely and efficacious completion of R&D development projects within budgetary and resource constraints.
• Provides essential analytical skills in measurement methods, stress testing, derating, reliability assessment, simulation, and evaluating alternate components.
• Works effectively and efficiently with internal or external labs, technicians, senior management, and product design engineers to accomplish timely and valuable results at optimal cost.
• Ensures teams identify and execute key pre-verification characterization testing and review activities necessary for product improvement and robustness enhancement.
• Works with project teams to ensure reliability, environmental, and transportation DHF deliverables, plans, verifications, and validations are compliant, documented, timely, and grounded in solid science.
• Responsible for cross training and mentoring others within the team and throughout the R&D organization to ensure successful adoption and execution of the reliability engineering program as applied to pipeline projects.

Experience :

9 yrs hands-on design and / or DfR experience on highly varied products, Opto-electro-mechanical experience particularly valuable

9 yrs.) hands-on experience in product development and design Hand-On Experience and conceptual understanding of reliability tools such as ALT, HALT, Environmental Tests, DFMEA, DfR, RBD, RCA, and FTA Ability to design supporting fixturing, reliability test methods, identify essential testing parameters / equipment, develop test plan and implement

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