Sr. Reliability Engineer

About the role

At Milwaukee Tool, our most valued resource is our dedicated team of employees—employees who work with a passion to be the best and an unparalleled pride in their work and in the Milwaukee brand. We invest in each individual's growth and development from day one. Our Engineering teams are key contributors to continuous innovations, working in a fast-paced, agile environment to deliver disruptive technologies. This role involves collaborating directly with end users to develop heavy-duty, high-performance products and leveraging advanced analysis tools, extensive testing regimes, and state-of-the-art manufacturing processes.

The Senior Reliability Engineer is a critical member of the New Product Development Team, requiring strong cross-functional communication skills and analytical expertise to help launch new, innovative solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Act as subject matter expert in product reliability, user requirements, and warranty information for new product designs and engineering changes.
• Participate in User Need Research to identify “critical to quality” (CtQ) requirements for mechanical and electrical design features.
• Support Advanced Engineering activities targeting CtQ needs.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Marketing to define product specifications regarding reliability, quality, and testing.
• Design experiments and techniques to improve development efforts.
• Lead Risk Assessments (Design and Manufacturing) for new product development projects during the product development cycle.
• Interact with US and Asian suppliers participating in product development.
• Develop test plans and procedures to ensure products meet customer requirements.
• Ensure test laboratories implement test plans, procedures, and best practices.
• Analyze, draw conclusions, report, and present product information using statistical techniques such as Weibull analysis, reliability distributions/matrices, and reliability models.
• Draw concise, logical, written conclusions from experiments based on data analysis.
• Ensure timely failure reporting and lead root cause analysis and effective corrective/preventative actions (FRACA).

Requirements

• A Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field and 7 years of experience in a similar reliability and quality role, OR a Master of Science Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field and 5 years of experience in a similar reliability and quality role.
• Experience in new product commercialization processes emphasizing design, manufacturing, quality, test, and/or reliability activities.
• Training in quality engineering fundamentals and proven experience leading a primary function within a project team.
• Proficiency in Design of Experiments, life data analysis, and related statistical tools and software (e.g., Minitab, Reliasoft).
• Experience with lithium-ion battery tools and technology is a plus.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time (includes both domestic and international).