What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Reliability Engineer position at Black Diamond Networks?
Sr Reliability Engineer
Major Responsibilities
- Understand stakeholder requirements, product specifications, applications, and their relationship to parts, products, and processes; lead qualification activities in support of product release.
- Participate in design reviews and work with engineering teams to drive design-for-reliability processes, tools, and reliability planning.
- Develop system reliability models and perform component-level thermomechanical simulations.
- Work with support and service teams to gather data for reliability metrics.
- Lead failure analysis and corrective actions through successful implementation of solutions.
- Use reliability data to define product improvements across hardware, software, and processes.
- Travel as required to support project, partner, or field activities.
- Collaborate with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
- Review engineering change requests for their impact on reliability.
Deliverables
The Engineer will create work products that address end-to-end reliability requirements throughout the product life cycle, including:
- Reliability plans, reliability requirements, DFMEAs, and reliability test protocols for accelerated reliability testing, reliability growth testing, and related activities.
- Execution of reliability plans and preparation of reliability reports.
- Reliability metrics based on data gathered from support, service, quality, manufacturing, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Reliability models and component-level thermomechanical simulation results.
- Statistical analyses and reliability reports.
- Reliability growth models used to measure and improve product reliability.
- Reliability metric reporting and forecasting, including MTBF, availability, and related measures.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, with a minimum of five years of experience in reliability engineering.
- A master’s degree in engineering, relevant reliability engineering experience, or a recognized reliability certification is preferred.
- Experience with reliability and statistical analysis tools is required.
- Experience applying reliability methods to complex electromechanical products or systems is preferred.
Additional Requirements
- Technically astute, detail-oriented, hands-on, and self-confident, with broad knowledge of product development, manufacturing quality, and reliability methods.
- Strong interpersonal skills and professional presence, with the ability to influence and lead others in solving complex quality and reliability problems.
- Excellent listening, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Strong desire to learn, contribute, and grow professionally.
- Willingness to travel periodically to support project and partner activities.