Job Description:

As a Reliability Engineer II for Milwaukee Tool, you will be located at our Downtown Office Location in Milwaukee, WI reporting to the Reliability / Quality Manager. The Reliability Engineer II is a critical member of the Product Support and Value Engineering Team contributing intermediate to advanced engineering skills. Throughout a product's development cycle, this position requires strong cross-functional communication skills and analytical expertise to help maintain exciting solutions that meet user needs. You will work in a fast-paced environment to refine new products as a member of a cross-functional post-launch 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

• Isolate and identify “critical to quality” (CtQ) user need requirements on mechanical and electrical design features; and all product component interactions

• Track multiple projects simultaneously to ensure adherence to schedule and the Milwaukee Tool process.

• Participate and collaborate on project teams involving Marketing and Engineering leading in all aspects of reliability and testing

Testing / Analysis:

• Develop test plans and procedures based on new or established products, to ensure product meets customer requirements

• Collaborate with test laboratories to implement 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 root cause analysis and effective corrective/preventative actions (FRACA)

Job Requirements

• Bachelor of ScienceDegree in Engineering or educational equivalent field

• 2-5+ 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