R&D Reliability Engineer (Onsite)

Hach • Loveland, CO

72d • Onsite

About The Position

Imagine yourself… Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you. Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project. Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth. At Hach (www.hach.com), a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better—faster, simpler, greener, and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions. As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you’ll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world’s everyday water needs, and where you’ll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth. Motivated by the highest possible stakes in climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment. More about us: https://www.hach.com/about-us This position is located onsite 4 days a week in our office in Loveland, CO. Are you passionate about reliability engineering, playing an important role in driving decisions, and working for a diverse company where you can make an impact in the environment? Protecting water, the most valuable resource, and driving sustainability is very close to our hearts. You will be part of a flexible, family-friendly organization that cares about its people just as it cares about the environment. The Opportunity: This is an exciting opportunity to provide leadership, guidance and technical oversight to product development teams for Design for Reliability (DFR) best practices in the design and support of Hach’s current and future innovative product line! You will review design architecture and support development programs though all stages of the process as the development lead.

Requirements

• BS or MS degree in Applied Mathematics, Reliability Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics or a related field
• 4 or more years of experience in supporting the design and development of products as a reliability engineer.
• Electromechanical or Mechanical design knowledge
• Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
• Reliability Prediction and Modeling analysis
• Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)
• Reliability Testing (ALTA, RGT, HALT, Endurance and Demonstration)

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading Reliability Engineering best practices and the integration of DFR processes into existing product development processes.

Responsibilities

• Derives, Interprets and allocates reliability requirements to drive focused and value-add DFR analysis, design efforts and testing activities.
• Generates Reliability Test Plans and Procedures for Reliability focused Testing, including ALTA, RGT, HALT, Endurance, and Demonstration Testing.
• Develop complex reliability prediction models that serve as a leading indicator for product reliability to influence decision-making, resource prioritization and design focus across the Hach development team and their leadership.
• Works closely with System Engineers to conduct and support FMEA and System Hazard Analysis.
• Leads the Hach FRACAS process by acting as the chairman for the Failure Review Board (FRB).
• Is embedded in the product design team and participates in product design reviews as the primary DFR representative.
• Works closely with Supply Chain Management to ensure high quality and reliability of our procured parts and assemblies.
• Recommends design strategies, test methods and statistical process techniques to interpret product reliability.
• Provides guidance to teams in the development of predictive testing methods, in determining final test limits, and in the development and interpretation of accelerated testing models.
• Oversees and manages reliability deliverables for project teams and sustainment activities.
• Proactively tracks reliability metrics for teams’ work to ensure efforts are on track, reacts to issues.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/401k with matching (4%) all start day 1
• Permissive Paid Time Off (PPTO) to take time off when you need it (no tracking/accruals)
• Career coaching and development opportunities
• A state of the art R&D building built within the last 5 years with onsite manufacturing/labs
• Bonus Pay

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees