Reliability Test Engineer (onsite)

About the Role

You will own and drive the reliability strategy for air‑cooled and water‑cooled chiller programs, setting clear goals for failure‑rate reduction, B10 life, and warranty cost. Design‑for‑Reliability plans—including DFMEA and DVP&R—will be translated into realistic test profiles covering thermal cycling, vibration, electrical stress, and fouling. Reliability status will be reported via dashboards, risk registers, and phase‑gate readiness, connecting field failures to validation standards. Key duties include developing test strategies that maximize coverage while reducing redundancy, ensuring program readiness at concept, design freeze, validation, and launch milestones, and conducting root‑cause analysis (RCA/8D) on chronic issues such as bearing wear or refrigerant leaks. You will standardize reliability practices with principal engineers and align supplier qualifications to our reliability needs. • Develop and execute reliability strategies for air‑cooled and water‑cooled chiller programs, targeting failure‑rate reduction, B10 life, and warranty cost. • Create design‑for‑reliability plans (DFMEA, DVP&R) to address likely failure modes under realistic environmental and load profiles. • Manage reliability dashboards, risk registers, and phase‑gate readiness to enable data‑driven decisions. • Align field failure data with validation standards and update test plans accordingly. • Design test strategies that maximize coverage while minimizing redundant testing. • Ensure program readiness at concept, design freeze, validation, and launch milestones. • Lead root cause analysis (RCA/8D) on chronic issues and implement systemic corrective actions. • Standardize reliability practices across engineering teams and coordinate supplier qualification. • Analyze test and field data, generate reliability reports, and communicate findings to drive design improvements. • Apply statistical life data analysis (Weibull) and design of experiments to support reliability decisions. • Debug and troubleshoot hardware and software issues in laboratory and field environments.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸reliability strategy
• ▸dfmea
• ▸test strategy
• ▸root cause
• ▸data analysis
• ▸dashboard management

What You Bring

Required qualifications are a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Electrical, or a related field, and 0–3 years of experience in product development, testing, or field reliability. Candidates must understand FMEA, RCA, statistical analysis (e.g., Weibull), and demonstrate strong debugging and systematic problem‑solving skills. Preferred credentials include an ASQ‑CRE certification and familiarity with life‑stress models, DoE, electronics, controls, and manufacturing processes affecting reliability. • Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Electrical, or related engineering discipline. • Possess 0–3 years of experience in product development, testing, or field reliability. • Demonstrate knowledge of FMEA, RCA, failure‑mode recreation, and statistical analysis. • Preferred ASQ‑CRE certification and understanding of life‑stress models and DoE.

Requirements

• ▸bachelor's
• ▸entry level
• ▸fmea
• ▸rca
• ▸asq-cre
• ▸doe

Work Environment

Field