Milwaukee Electric Tool

Senior Reliability Engineer

Milwaukee Electric Tool • $90K — $120K *
Milwaukee, WI 53215In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
1 month ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a relevant field
  • 5+ years of reliability and quality experience
  • Familiarity with new product commercialization processes
  • Proven leadership in project teams
  • Experience with statistical tools like Minitab
  • Strong communication and problem-solving skills
  • Willingness to travel 10% of the time
  • Preferred: ASQ Reliability Engineering Certification

Responsibilities

  • Lead product design teams focusing on reliability and warranty information
  • Conduct User Need Research to identify critical quality requirements
  • Manage multiple projects to ensure schedule adherence
  • Support advanced engineering activities addressing critical needs
  • Collaborate with engineering and marketing to define specifications
  • Develop and implement test plans and procedures
  • Analyze product performance using statistical techniques
  • Lead root cause analysis and corrective action processes

Benefits

  • Engaging fast-paced work environment
  • Access to cross-functional team collaboration
  • Opportunity to contribute to innovative product solutions
  • Support for professional growth and certification acquisition
  • Potential for mentorship and skill development opportunities
Full Job Description
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 Quality/Reliability Manager. 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 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


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, 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)


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


About Milwaukee Electric Tool

Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation is a leading manufacturer and marketer of heavy-duty, portable electric power tools and accessories for professional users worldwide. Since its founding in 1924, Milwaukee has focused on a single vision: To produce the best heavy-duty electric power tools and accessories available to the professional user. Today, the Milwaukee name stands for the highest quality, durable and reliable professional tools money can buy.
Learn more about Milwaukee Electric Tool
Size
3,500 employees
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
* Ladders Estimates

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