Job Description:
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 Reliability Engineer's primary duties are to lead and manage a small team and utilize advanced level engineering skills to contribute to the development and qualification of power tool products and act as mentor to junior level engineers on NPD projects to help improve their technical skills in a fast-paced environment.
The individual works with internal and external partners (from prototyping to mass production) to support the business operational needs of the company through engineering activities that drive prevention, detection of defects at the earliest phases of product design, and throughout the product lifecycle.
The Senior Reliability Engineer will promote 'Design for Reliability' early in the development cycle, using physics of failure, reliability predictions, simulation by creating and executing a comprehensive testing plan at the system, subsystem land critical component qualification levels.
A successful candidate will be curious and accountable, and will bring strong experience in design, test set up, validation and data acquisition. Critical component testing will also be integral to the group's efforts to identify and mitigate risks. The Candidate enjoys excellent visibility and opportunities to grow.
Duties and Responsibilities
In order for both the candidate and the group to be successful, the candidate will:
- Collaborate with Engineering and Marketing to define the products' specifications leading in all aspect of reliability, quality and testing
- Participate in design reviews to align prototype and system readiness for testing and verification activities
- Develop and implement reliability analysis, design, validation, and assessment methods to support successful new product introductions based upon risk analysis and warranty predictions
- Responsible for performing the product qualification-testing plans, including functional testing, reliability and durability testing
- Work with Test Engineers to implement new test equipment and method based on product reliability specification
- Provide technical supports to improve existing product reliability
- Write and review detailed technical analysis reports.
- Perform root cause analysis through thoughtful test design for failures observed in reliability testing and/or field use.
- Provides technical training to Junior Engineers and technicians.
- 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
- Support of Advanced Engineering activities at targeted CtQ needs
- Lead Risk Assessments (Design and Manufacturing) for NPD projects during the product development cycle
- Track multiple projects simultaneously to ensure adherence to schedule and the Milwaukee Tool process
- Outline reliability test strategies, definitions, and plans as necessary to test devices to product specs.
- Develop test plans and prove out test methods based on new or established product designs to ensure product meets customer requirements
- Perform DOE to support Engineering in their understanding of quality concerns and improvements to design
- 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
- Draw concise, logical, written conclusions from experiments based on data analysis
- Ensure timely failure reporting and lead root cause analysis and effective corrective/preventative actions (FRACA)
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in reliability, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or related discipline. Consideration is also given to those with 8+ years of equivalent experience in design or test of EE or ME hardware or similar practical reliability experience.
- 8+ years of experience in related reliability and quality field
- Strong analytical problem-solving skills and sound statistical application in areas such as DOE, sampling techniques, regression, reliability, FMEA, hypothesis testing, etc.
- Previous relevant experience with life data analysis, and other related statistical tools and software (i.e. Minitab, Reliasoft Weibull++)
- Hands on experience with data acquisition systems, data processing and presentation.
- Demonstrate skills in leading and mentoring other employees in statistical techniques
- Up-to-date knowledge of current reliability engineering evaluation practices
- Experience in troubleshooting, fault detection, failure analysis and in operating and automating test or measurement equipment
- Experience in accelerated life testing is highly desired
- 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
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.
We provide these great perks and benefits:
- Robust health, dental and vision insurance plans.
- Generous 401 (K) savings plan.
- Education assistance.
- On-site wellness, fitness center, food and coffee service.
- And many more, check out our benefits site HERE.
Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.
