Sr. Reliability Engineer

Milwaukee Tool; Brookfield (WI); On-site; USD 75,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job description

The Senior Reliability Engineer's primary duties are to utilize advanced level engineering skills to contribute to the development and qualification of power tool products. The Senior Reliability Engineer is a critical member of the New Product Development Team reporting to the Reliability / Quality Team Lead. Throughout a product's development cycle, this position requires strong cross-functional communication skills and analytical expertise to help launch new and exciting solutions that meet user needs. You will work in a fast-paced environment to innovate new products as a member of a cross-functional team.

Duties and Responsibilities

Product Development

• 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 Advanced Engineering activities at targeted CtQ needs
• Collaborate with Engineering and Marketing to define the products' specifications leading in all aspects 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 US and Asian suppliers that participate with product development

Testing/Analysis

• 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
• 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 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)
• 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.