Sr Quality Reliability Engineer

Job Description :

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Come be DISRUPTIVE with us! At Milwaukee Tool, our most valued resource is our dedicated team of employees - employees who work with a passion to be the best and an unparalleled pride in their work and in the Milwaukee brand.

We know that the only way to sustain growth and success is to value the growth and success of each person within the organization that's why we invest in an individual's growth and development from day one.

All our teams touch every step of the process, that is why our Engineering teams are some of the key contributors to our continuous innovations.

The fast-paced, agile environment continuously delivers disruptive technologies by providing every team with the resources needed to excel and working directly with End Users to understand how to deliver heavy duty products with high performance.

We create Best in Class products by leveraging advanced analysis tools, extensive testing regimes, state-of-the-art manufacturing processes and cross-functional agility.

The Senior Quality / Reliability Engineer will utilize advanced-level test development and failure analysis skills to contribute to the development and qualification of new power tool products.

This is a hands-on position where the candidate will be required to gain an understanding of the usage and operation of the tools / equipment under development.

Throughout a product's development cycle (Prototype Mass Production), this position requires strong cross-functional communication skills, analytical expertise, and hands-on failure analysis to help launch new and exciting solutions that meet user needs.

This is a fast-paced environment full of opportunities for innovation in new product test methods.

The Senior Quality / Reliability Engineer will promote 'Design for Reliability' early in the development cycle, using physics of failure, reliability predictions, and simulation by creating and executing a comprehensive testing plan at the system, subsystem, and critical component qualification levels.

Duties and Responsibilities :

Product Development

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

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

Participate in design reviews to align prototype and system readiness for testing and verification activities.

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

Support of Advanced Engineering activities targeted at CtQ needs

Develop and implement reliability analysis, design, validation, and assessment methods to support successful new product introductions based upon RGA, Stress Strain Analysis, and Warranty Predictions.

Responsible for ensuring completion of product qualification-testing plans, including functional, reliability, and durability testing.

Develop test plans and prove out test methods based on new or established product designs to ensure products meet customer requirements.

Perform DOE’s to support Engineering in their understanding of quality concerns and improvements to design.

Analyze, draw conclusions, report and present product information utilizing statistical techniques such as Weibull analysis, reliability distributions and matrices.

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

Ensure timely failurereportingandperform root cause analysisthroughthoughtful test designfor failuresobserved inreliability testing and / or fielduse

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

Interact with North America and Asian suppliers that participate with product development

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

Mentor and assist junior Reliability Engineers

Job Requirements

Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering (Reliability, Mechanical, Electrical, or other related disciplines)

5+ years of experience in related reliability and quality field

Knowledge / Experience with the phases of residential and commercial construction as well as equipment usage

Extensive Background in Test Development, Data, Collection and Processing

Strong analytical problem-solving skills and sound statistical application in areas such as DOE, sampling techniques, regression, Reliability (RGA), FMEA, hypothesis testing, etc.

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)

Strong communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels with creative problem-solving capabilities.

Demonstrates excellent organizational skills, can synthesize problems, and easily report them to management.

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

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