Sr Reliability Engineer
About The Position
Milwaukee Tool is seeking a Senior Reliability/Quality Engineer to join their New Product Development team. This role involves utilizing engineering skills to contribute to the development and qualification of power tool products. The engineer will define test methods and product requirements for durable, disruptive, and market-leading products. They will also ensure sufficient process validation and resolve quality issues to support manufacturing readiness. The ideal candidate will be curious, accountable, and possess strong experience in requirements definition, test development, validation, data acquisition, and process validation. This position offers a fast-paced work environment with excellent visibility and growth opportunities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field
- 5+ years of experience in similar product development, reliability, test, or quality roles
- Strong analytical problem-solving skills and sound statistical application in areas such as Design of Experiments, sampling techniques, regression, reliability, FMEAs, hypothesis testing, etc.
- Hands-on experience with data acquisition systems, data analytics, and related software (e.g. Python, nCode Glyphworks, Dewesoft, LabVIEW)
- Experience with life data analysis, reliability distributions, and statistical analysis, and related software (e.g. Minitab, Reliasoft Weibull++)
- Experience in troubleshooting, fault detection, failure analysis, and automating tests/measurements and analysis
- Experienced in the use of MSAs, PFMEAs, process control plans and SPC
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels with creative problem-solving capabilities
Responsibilities
- Be a subject matter expert in the New Product Development team with respect to test methods, product requirements, user needs, and reliability
- Develop Critical to Quality (CTQ) requirements from collaboration with Product Management and participation in User Needs Research
- Collaborate with Engineering and Marketing to define product specifications with respect to all aspects of reliability, quality, and user needs
- Design experimental techniques to improve development and testing efforts
- Interact with global suppliers that participate in product development
- Track multiple projects simultaneously to ensure adherence to schedule and the Milwaukee Tool process
- Develop new test procedures and create test plans to evaluate product performance against user and product requirements
- Effectively document test plans, procedures, and best practices for execution in test laboratories
- Perform data analysis, post-processing, and visualization of test data
- Summarize test results with statistical techniques and present concise, logical, written conclusions
- Ensure timely failure reporting and drive root cause analysis and effective corrective/preventative actions (FRACA)
- Support process validation activities such as measurement systems analysis, process capability, PFMEA, Process Control Plans and SPC
- Lead root cause corrective action and 8D activities to ensure effective closure of quality issues during the NPD process
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
