Senior Reliability Engineer

Milwaukee Tool•Milwaukee, WI

22h

About The Position

At Milwaukee Tool, the Senior Reliability Engineer is a critical member of the New Product Development Team, reporting to the Quality/Reliability Manager. This role involves utilizing advanced engineering skills to contribute to the development and qualification of power tool products. The position requires strong cross-functional communication skills and analytical expertise throughout a product's development cycle to launch new solutions that meet user needs. The engineer will work in a fast-paced, agile environment, collaborating with cross-functional teams to innovate new products and deliver disruptive technologies, leveraging advanced analysis tools, extensive testing regimes, state-of-the-art manufacturing processes, and cross-functional agility.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or educational equivalent field
5+ years of experience in related reliability and quality field
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)
Written and verbal communication skills and creative problem-solving capabilities
Ability to travel 10% of the time is required (travel includes Domestic and International)

Nice To Haves

ASQ Reliability Engineering Certification (ASQ-CRE) or the ability and desire to achieve certification
Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) or Six Sigma experience

Responsibilities

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
Track multiple projects simultaneously to ensure adherence to schedule and the Milwaukee Tool process
Support of Advanced Engineering activities at targeted CtQ needs
Collaborate with Engineering and Marketing to define the products' specifications leading in all aspect of reliability, quality and testing
Use designed experiment techniques to improve development efforts
Lead Risk Assessments (Design and Manufacturing) for NPD projects during the product development cycle
Interact with domestic and global suppliers that participate with product development
Develop test plans and procedures based on new or established products, to ensure product meets customer requirements
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, as well as provide mentorship and support to RE peers
Draw concise, logical, written conclusions from experiments based on data analysis
Lead planning and analysis of product durable life through advanced reliability & testing techniques such as HALT, ALT and HASS
Ensure timely failure reporting and lead root cause analysis and effective corrective/preventative actions (FRACA)