Reliability Engineer II

• Participate in initial new product conceptual development.
• Set up and run testing of components and systems for reliability purposes.
• Lead investigations to identify the root causes of failure.
• Review reliability statistics of the current suite products with the aim of identifying areas most in need for improvement.
• Complete FMEA studies of hardware products.
• Use FMEA insights to develop, optimize, and refine preventative maintenance (PM) plans that proactively address potential failure modes.
• Interact with various design, manufacturing, and software teams.
• Establish quality and reliability requirements for suppliers.
• Support build, debug, validate, and fine-tune equipment for release to production.
• Develop qualification processes for releasing new features into production to prevent downtime due to issues in the field.
• Drive organization of information and data collection, perform root cause analysis, report on occurrences as well as implementation of short term and long term mitigation steps.
• Own and manage identification and resolution of priority product concerns in the Product development process.
• Technically assess system performance, identify and prioritize hardware vulnerabilities, create paths to improve overall consistency and reliability, and own implementation of system improvements.
• Track mean time to failure (MTTF) of all products.
• Host, and actively contribute to test result review meetings.

• Experience creating technical specifications for automated equipment.
• Demonstrated excellence in an engineering role in either Product Development, Equipment/Machine Design, Manufacturing, or Testing environments.
• Must be prepared to work, in part, in extreme environments: temps > 100 degrees or below freezing, sun, rain, mud, lack of electricity, etc.
• Exposure to a wide variety of test systems, production machinery, industrial sensors, and equipment (pogo-pins, pressure transducers, temperature controllers, current meters, etc.) .
• BS/MS in Mechanical/Mechatronics (or similar) Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in Mechanical/Mechatronics (or similar) Engineering.
• Experience transitioning products and processes from prototype to production desired.
• Must be able to travel 4+ weeks per year internationally.
• Knowledge of various part fabrication techniques. (machining, welding, sheet metal fabrication, laser cutting, etching, injection molding, 3D printing, hydroforming.)
• Must be able to lift 50 pounds.
• Knowledge of production quality metrics is a plus.
• Hands-on skills with diagnostics software, hardware, tools, instruments, general electromechanical/mechatronic systems and measurement techniques.
• Experience in SolidWorks

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