RELIABILITY ENGINEER
RELIABILITY ENGINEER
Industry: Pharmaceutical / Biotech
Job Category: Engineering – Other Engineering
Responsible for the overall management of the reliability program, act as the internal consultant on all reliability matters and interface with vendors and customers (as necessary) on key reliability programs/issues. This will include development or revising of reliability engineering guidelines to improve product performance through design enhancements to meet company and customer reliability goals.
Key responsibilities of the Reliability Engineer:
- Uses principles of performance evaluation and prediction to improve the safety, reliability and maintainability of products.
- Develops and administers reliability information systems. Identifies, collects, analyzes, and manages various types of data to minimize failures and improve performance.
- Oversees the reliability program and ensures its effectiveness, including program definition, management alignment and organizational responsibilities & development.
- Makes investment recommendations for capital, test equipment, facility improvements, and software analytical tools to continuously develop organizational capability.
- Ensures reliability methods and processes meet industry standards and world-class methods.
- Ensures organizational knowledge regarding design for quality and reliability of products is documented, archived, maintained, disseminated and consistently applied.
- Interfaces with design engineering & marketing organizations to generate and/or approve product verification and validation plans, including performance, life/reliability and abuse testing. Will develop reliability test plans that represent the expected use environment and operational conditions. Will select, analyze, and interpret the results of various test methods to be used during product development and end product testing.
- Consults and works with development teams and other project teams regarding the application of Reliability Engineering tools (e.g. statistical analysis, reliability modeling & prediction, FMEA, FTA, DFx techniques, fault tolerance, optimization, DOE, etc) to achieve quality and reliability goals.
- Works cross-functionally to resolve reliability problems that result in excessive field failures.
SKILLS AND CERTIFICATIONS:
- Eligible – Yes
- Interview Certified Reliability Engineer, preferred
- Full-time Benefits – Full
- Relocation Assistance Available – Yes
- Bonus Travel Reimbursed – Yes
CANDIDATE DETAILS:
- 5+ to 7 years’ experience
- Minimum Education – Bachelor’s Degree
- Willingness to Travel – Occasionally
IDEAL CANDIDATE:
- BS, Engineering
- Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE, ASQ) preferred.
- 7+ years minimum reliability engineering experience with mechanical and/or electromechanical assemblies.
- Experience with rotating equipment strongly preferred (e.g. motors, pumps, generators, etc).
- Knowledge of PCBA and electronic component failure mechanisms desired.
- Knowledge of manufacturing methods for electronic and machined parts desired.
- Ability to communicate, collaborate and lead cross-functionally to resolve issues, including with customers required.
- Excellent verbal/written communication, interpersonal and computer skills required.
- Strong knowledge of state of the art reliability assessment and improvement methods.
- Familiarity / experience with Industry-Accepted compliance test standards (e.g. UL, CSA, Safety, EMC) desired.
- Hands on lab experience and Lab View hardware/software design knowledge/experience desired.
- Experience with life test, ALT, HALT and HASS design and execution desirable.