Principal Reliability Engineer - Bracco Medical Technologies

Bracco Medical Technologies•Maple Grove, MN

2d•$160,000 - $175,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Principal Reliability Engineer (PE) is the champion for product quality and reliability across BMT. The PE serves as a technical leader, partnering with Systems Engineering, Quality, and cross-functional teams to define quality and reliability goals, requirements, and strategies across the BMT product portfolio. In this role, the PE will maintain deep expertise in reliability methods, testing, field performance, risk management, and failure analysis to support business and customer needs. The PE will lead the development and execution of reliability strategies throughout the product lifecycle—from product development through post-market performance—ensuring that field and reliability data drive measurable product improvements.

Requirements

Bachelors’ degree in engineering, preferably systems, electrical, mechanical, bio-medical, or software, reliability, or related scientific discipline
Experience mentoring and coaching engineers. (i.e., Ability to coach and guide others how to develop protocols, execute system tests and write effective reports)
5+ years of experience with the Design for Reliability (DFR) and associated reliability processes
5+ years in a product development system engineering role
Experience analyzing field, complaint, and service data to identify reliability trends and failure modes.
Demonstrated experience leading root cause investigations in partnership with engineering and quality and corrective actions for complex product failures
Working knowledge of reliability, risk management, and design controls, including ISO 14971 and ISO 13485
Demonstrated experience with risk management and systems engineering processes
Ability to grow productive, trusting, and open relationships with a wide variety of constituencies
Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively across a business enterprise, adapting your message to the audience in both written and verbal media
High degree of organizational skills and high attention to detail
Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize work for self and team effectively
Ability to work both independently and as part of a team across the business unit

Nice To Haves

PhD in EE, Systems Engineering, , Reliability, SW, Physics, or related scientific discipline
10+ years of Reliability experience
Experience working with physicians and customers in a product development role
Demonstrated capability gathering and distilling Voice-of-customer experience to actionable items within a product development team
Experience in developing and interpreting clinical research to advance capabilities and claims of medical devices
Demonstrated ability to transition technology research into commercial product offerings
Demonstrated ability to coach, teach, and grow early career engineers into senior positions
Experience with design of experiments, data analysis, statistical methods & presentation of results
Familiarity with functional database and software tools for managing projects, requirements, risk, etc.
Understanding of product development milestones and basic business financials
Experience with government regulatory agencies and audit processes (i.e. FDA, FAA, NRC, etc.)
Experience in Reliability /Serviceability as applicable to medical equipment
CRE, ASQ or Six Sigma certification as a Black Belt or Master Black Belt

Responsibilities

Define and lead Design for Reliability (DFR) methodologies and framework that supports new product development across hardware and software
Mentor engineers to improve engineering skills, methodologies, and domain knowledge
Develop the business case and plan for reliability programs and communicate benefits to senior management in the engineering and quality organizations
Review and approve reliability planning, testing, and analysis activities within both New Product Development and sustaining programs
Ensure quality and reliability requirements are incorporated into BMT products, and construct useful methods to quantify product quality and reliability across the portfolio
Contribute to the execution of Technical Design Reviews to ensure they are complete and effective
Develop and define the strategy and roadmap for incorporating and deploying new tools, methods, and processes to address the quality and reliability needs of BMT
Be a technology advocate in business and customer interactions
Attract, develop, and retain engineering talent
Be the champion and key stakeholder in the technical design reviews for products in the portfolio while providing opportunities and guidance to engineers in presenting and explaining technology designs and how decisions were made.
Take responsibility for internal and external stakeholder communication on key technical updates and issues, adapting the message to ensure effective communication to different audiences.
Effectively manage risk management activities and ensure decisions are made, implemented and tracked to conclusion for technical issues throughout the project.
Define reliability metrics and targets using field, complaint, service, and test data
Lead and/or support reliability investigations for significant and recurring field failures and drive product reliability improvements based on post-market performance
Provide reliability input to risk management and risk-control decisions
Measure subsystem and end-to-end system reliability to demonstrate customer impact