Sr. Manager, Product Reliability

Description

• Modeling & Analysis: Establish system for reliability growth of new product development to quantify product maturation during and through long duration reliability tests, system level validation and field pilot trials.
• Risk Analysis & Assessment: Establish systems to apply first principles approach to determining risk and impact. Organize brainstorming sessions with key stakeholders for quick risk discovery. Oversee Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) sessions during the concept and design phase to help identify failure modes specific solar tracker systems and prioritize mitigation strategies.
• Failure Analysis: Accountable for driving failure analysis based on reliability testing. Collaborate with suppliers to drive root cause analysis and take them to closure. Specify environmental and reliability tests needed to recreate failure modes. Co-ordinate with internal and external labs to scope out appropriate FA methodologies and interpret results and communicate recommendations.
• Reliability Test Planning: Ensure that reliability test plans are developed for products being designed and/or maintained in India. Work with the internal test lab and outdoor solar testing fields to direct and execute long term reliability tests for above type of products at component and system level.
• Reliability Testing and Reporting: Ensure that engineering and test teams to get input on test equipment, custom test jigs, data acquisition systems, and test instrumentation to ensure accurate and consistent results. You will have accountability for owning and reporting all internal durability test data and results through standardized report formats that can act as collateral for customers.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with Design, Manufacturing and Asset Management teams to implement and communicate design improvements based on test and field data. Collaborate with Quality team to drive root cause corrective actions and re-create failure modes through testing. Collaborate with Suppliers to specify reliability testing and review reliability test reports.

Requirements

• Experience with reliability tools and methodologies like FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, Accelerated Life Testing, 8D Root Cause Analysis, Weibull Analysis, JMP, ReliaSoft
• Hands-on experience with fatigue, vibration, load and thermal cycling type testing.
• Experience working with environmental chambers, dynamometers, strain gauges, torque sensors, displacement transducers, pressure sensors and data acquisition systems.
• Reliability Growth Models like Duane or Crow-AMSAA to track reliability improvements over iterative testing and field pilots. Closed loop learning tools like FRACAS (Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System) to drive corrective actions and improvements.
• Knowledge of design for reliability (DfR) activities to incorporate reliability into early design phases. Experience with material selection, derating, redundancy and tolerance stack up analysis.
• 10+ years of experience in reliability testing and design for reliability methodologies with a background in Automotive or Aerospace or Industrial Equipment or Construction or Energy or relevant industry.
• Relationship between use-case and accelerated test conditions based on a physics of failure approach for electromechanical components.
• IEC, ASTM, ISO and ANSI standards related to environmental testing including but not limited to corrosion

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance