Reliability Engineer II

About the Role

Join our Engineering Team at Milwaukee Tool, where we empower engineers to create disruptive technologies and solutions. As a Reliability Engineer II, you will contribute to the development of batteries, motors, and electronics that power innovative tools. This role is based at our Corporate & Global Design Headquarters in Brookfield, WI, and involves working in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment to launch new products that meet user needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams for new product designs and engineering changes, focusing on product reliability, user requirements, and warranty information.
• Identify and isolate "critical to quality" (CtQ) user need requirements for mechanical and electrical design features, including all product component interactions.
• Track multiple projects simultaneously to ensure adherence to schedule and Milwaukee Tool’s development process.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Engineering on project teams, leading reliability and testing efforts.
• Develop test plans and procedures for new or established products to ensure they meet customer requirements.
• Collaborate with test laboratories to implement test plans and procedures, ensuring full test completion and best practices.
• Analyze product data using statistical techniques such as Weibull analysis, reliability distributions, and matrices, and present findings.
• Draw concise, logical, written conclusions from experiments based on data analysis.
• Ensure timely failure reporting, root cause analysis, and effective corrective/preventative actions (FRACA).

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or an equivalent field.
• 2-5 years of experience in reliability and quality engineering and/or statistical engineering.
• Experience with new product development processes, including testing design, manufacturing audits, quality assurance, test engineering, or reliability and warranty prediction.
• Experience with test development, specification creation, quality engineering fundamentals, and leading a primary function within a project team.
• Proficiency with Design of Experiments (Six Sigma preferred), life data analysis, and statistical tools/software (e.g., Minitab, Reliasoft).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, along with creative problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to travel 10% of the time (domestic and international).

Preferred Qualifications

• ASQ Reliability Engineering Certification (ASQ-CRE) or the ability and desire to achieve certification.
• Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) or Six Sigma experience.
• Python experience.