Reliability Engineer

About the Role

The Reliability Engineer will utilize engineering skills to contribute to the development and qualification of power tool products. This role involves defining test methods and product requirements to develop durable, disruptive, and market-leading products within a fast-paced, agile environment.

Key Responsibilities

Product Development

• Be a subject matter expert in the New Product Development team regarding test methods, product requirements, user needs, and reliability.
• Develop Critical to Quality (CTQ) requirements through collaboration with Product Management and User Needs research.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Marketing to define product specifications for reliability, quality, and user needs.
• Design experimental techniques to improve development and testing efforts.
• Collaborate with global teams to ensure robust manufacturing and supplier quality and test lab correlation.
• Track multiple projects simultaneously to ensure adherence to quality, schedule, and the Milwaukee Tool process.

Testing and Analysis

• Develop new test procedures and create test plans to evaluate product performance against user and product requirements.
• Document test plans, procedures, and best practices for execution in test laboratories.
• Perform data analysis, post-processing, and visualization of test data.
• Summarize test results with statistical techniques and present concise, logical, written conclusions.
• Ensure timely failure reporting and drive root cause analysis and effective corrective/preventative actions.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Analytical problem-solving skills and statistical application in areas such as Design of Experiments, sampling techniques, regression, reliability, FMEAs, and hypothesis testing.
• Hands-on experience with data acquisition systems, data analysis, and related software (e.g. Python, nCode Glyphworks, Dewesoft, LabVIEW).
• Experience with life data analysis, reliability distributions, statistical analysis, and related software (e.g. Minitab, Reliasoft Weibull++).
• Experience in manufacturing quality and root cause analysis (RCA, FRACAS).
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Creative problem-solving capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field.
• 0-2 years of experience in similar product development, reliability, test, or quality roles.
• Ability to travel 10% (includes both domestic and international).