Job Description:

Come be DISRUPTIVE with us! 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 know that the only way to sustain growth and success is to value the growth and success of each person within the organization that's why we invest in an individual's growth and development from day one.

All our teams touch every step of the process, that is why our engineering teams are some of the key contributors to our continuous innovations. The fast-paced, agile environment continuously delivers disruptive technologies by providing every team with the resources needed to excel and working directly with end users to understand how to deliver heavy duty products with high performance. We create best in class products by leveraging advanced analysis tools, extensive testing regimes, state-of-the-art manufacturing processes and cross-functional agility.

The Senior Reliability Engineer's primary duties are to utilize advanced-level engineering skills to contribute to the development and qualification of power tool products. The Senior

Reliability Engineer is a critical member of the New Product Development Team reporting to the Reliability / Quality Team Lead. Throughout a product's development cycle, this position requires strong cross-functional communication skills and analytical expertise to help launch new and exciting solutions that meet user needs. You will work in a fast-paced environment to innovate new products as a member of a cross-functional team.

Duties and Responsibilities

Product Development::

• Lead teams for new product designs and engineering changes with respect to product reliability, user requirements and warranty information

• Participate in User Need Research to identify “critical to quality” (CtQ) requirements on mechanical and electrical design features

• Track multiple projects simultaneously to ensure adherence to schedule and the Milwaukee Tool process.

• Support of Advanced Engineering activities at targeted CtQ needs

• Collaborate with Engineering and Marketing to define the products' specifications leading in all aspect of reliability, quality and testing

• Use designed experiment techniques to improve development efforts

• Lead Risk Assessments (Design and Manufacturing) for NPD projects during the product development cycle

• Interact with US and Asian suppliers that participate with product development

Testing/Analysis:

• Develop test plans and procedures based on new or established products, to ensure product meets customer requirements

• Lead test laboratories implementing test plans/procedures ensuring full test completion and best practices are utilized

• Analyze, draw conclusions, report and present product information utilizing statistical techniques such as Weibull analysis, reliability distributions and matrices

• 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)

Job Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or educational equivalent field

• 5+ years of experience in related reliability and quality field

• Experience with new product commercialization processes emphasizing design, manufacturing, quality, test or reliability activities

• Experience including training in quality engineering fundamentals and proven experience leading a primary function within a project team

• Previous relevant experience with Design of Experiments, life data analysis, and other related statistical tools and software (i.e. Minitab, Reliasoft)

• Written and verbal communication skills and creative problem-solving capabilities

• Ability to travel 10% of the time is required (travel includes Domestic and International)

• Preferred: ASQ Reliability Engineering Certification (ASQ-CRE) or the ability and desire to achieve certification

• Preferred: Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) or Six Sigma experience

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled

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