Job DescriptionBAE Systems has a stimulating opportunity for an energetic well-qualified Reliability Engineer to join our team. You will work on teams developing and producing a variety of electronic equipment including Countermeasure & Electromagnetic Attack Solutions, providing unparalleled electronic warfare capabilities to enhance mission survivability. BAE Systems' Reliability Engineers are involved with every stage of the equipment lifecycle from concept through development, Integration & Test, production and field support. You will have significant interaction across the company including program office, all engineering disciplines and production functions and this will provide for a fast-paced, educational, and fulfilling experience. Your efforts will have a positive impact on front line warfighter's effectiveness and daily quality of life.
We are seeking a Principal Engineer with an earned degree in a relevant engineering discipline to join our Reliability Science engineering team. You will have opportunities to apply your engineering skills and education to investigate digital and analog electronics, power supplies, and systems of electronic modules, to ensure Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability requirements are achieved. Your self-starting enthusiasm for technology, and ability to investigate and solve problems, will propel you to become an integral part of our innovative teams and influence product development.
In this role, you will:
- Work with a cross-functional team to ensure Reliability and Maintainability requirements are achieved.
- Perform failure trend analysis, failure investigation and root cause analysis. Coordinate failure analysis with vendors or failure analysis labs. Prepare and review failure reports and FRACAS metrics for publication. Present findings and conclusions with recommended corrective actions to both internal management as well as our customers.
- Perform internal and external supplier interface to resolve reliability issues.
- Perform Design-for Reliability and Maintainability including reliability and maintainability modeling and analysis and assessments requiring the full use and wide application of engineering theories, concepts and precedents. Conduct research to provide solutions to a wide range of technical problems and proposals. Make technical choices to improve the reliability & maintainability attributes of the equipment.
- Plan and conduct a variety of reliability and maintainability tasks to meet reliability and maintainability goals. Present findings and conclusions with recommended corrective actions to both internal management as well as our customers.
- Represent the Company at customer meetings as applicable.
The work site location for this position is at our BAE Systems NH sites. Because this role involves a combination of collaborative/in-person and independent work, it will take the form of a
hybrid work format, with time split between working onsite and remotely.
BAE Systems offers competitive pay, benefits, and important work-life balance initiatives including every other Friday Off, Flextime, and Telecommuting. BAE also believes in a culture of recognition for the extraordinary contributions of our skilled employees.
Our engineers are the lifeblood of our company and we're more than 5,000 strong. With our robust offering of educational and career development opportunities, your chances to grow are limitless.
This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.
Required Skills and EducationRequirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, preferred Electrical, Computer, or Software, and 6 or more years of relevant engineering experience or master's degree in engineering, preferred Electrical, Computer, or Software, and 4 or more years of relevant engineering experience.
- Eligibility for a Secret security clearance
Experience with several of the following:
- Perform Reliability, Availability & Maintainability (RAM) trade studies for the system design process
- Experience using Reliability and Maintainability analysis and reliability growth software tools experience / awareness using ReliaSoft , Relyence and/or PTC Windchill RR software tool
- Define/allocate RAM requirements and assess RAM performance (MTBF, MTBCF, Ao)
- Perform Reliability Predictions and MTBF Modeling
- Perform Failure Modes Effects Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
- Perform Testability Analysis
- Perform Maintainability Analysis.
- Drive the Failure reporting, Analysis & Corrective Action System (FRACAS) process
- Perform failure trend analysis, failure investigation and root cause analysis.
- Chair/Track the Failure Review Board activities.
- Present R&M design and analysis against customer requirements at internal and customer design milestone reviews.
- Responsibilities may involve supporting the design team to establish BIT functions, test interface requirements and diagnostic features.
Preferred Skills and Education- Collaboration: You love working with a team and receiving input from others
- Creativity: You love finding new and creative ways to solve problems
- Proven Circuit Analysis experience
- Reliability Growth software tools experience
- Experience with requirement development
- Experience with System Integration
- Experience with MBSE (Magic Draw, SysML)
- Familiarity with industry standard practices such as Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, etc.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment
