What are the responsibilities and job description for the Reliability Engineer position at KYO GROUP LLC?
Reliability Product Approval Engineer
Location: Marietta, Ohio
Pay: $65.33/hour
Duration: 12-month contract
Relocation: Relocation assistance may be available for the right candidate
KYO Group is seeking a Reliability Engineer to support Thermo Fisher Scientific's laboratory equipment and ultra-low temperature product development programs.
This role will focus on reliability engineering, verification and validation, failure analysis, risk management, and product approval activities for complex electromechanical systems.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute comprehensive product reliability plans
- Define verification, reliability, and performance testing strategies
- Develop test protocols, acceptance criteria, and engineering test procedures
- Lead Design FMEA and structured product-risk activities
- Perform root-cause and failure analysis
- Apply Physics of Failure principles to mechanical, electrical, and refrigeration systems
- Support accelerated life testing, stress testing, and reliability evaluation
- Analyze test data and field performance data
- Drive corrective actions and design improvements
- Maintain requirements traceability from customer need through test evidence
- Support product approval and regulatory readiness
- Create standardized reliability methods and test procedures
- Mentor engineers and technicians on reliability methods and tools
- Support Lean/PPI and continuous improvement initiatives
- Travel up to 10%
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field
- 5 years of reliability engineering, verification testing, product approval, or related engineering experience
- 3 years supporting mechanical or electromechanical product development
- Hands-on experience developing and executing engineering test methods
- Strong failure-analysis and root-cause-analysis skills
- Experience with reliability tools such as DFMEA, DOE, ALT, HALT, or statistical analysis
- Experience with measurement and test equipment
Preferred Experience
- HVAC/R, refrigeration, or thermal systems
- UL, IEC, NSF, Energy Star, DIN, or similar regulated product testing
- Minitab, Reliasoft, or similar reliability-analysis tools
- Data acquisition and automated test systems
- Accelerated life testing
Relevant military test, evaluation, systems engineering, quality assurance, or reliability experience is encouraged.
KYO Group is a veteran-owned staffing and consulting company focused on connecting highly qualified professionals with long-term career opportunities.
Pay: $65.33 per hour
Application Question(s):
- Do you have a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field? Please answer Yes or No.
- Do you have 5 years of reliability engineering, verification, validation, or product-testing experience? Please answer Yes or No.
- Do you have 3 years of experience supporting mechanical or electromechanical product development? Please answer Yes or No.
- Do you have experience with DFMEA? Please answer Yes or No.
- Do you have experience with reliability methods such as DOE, HALT, ALT, accelerated-life testing, or Physics of Failure? Please answer Yes or No.
- Do you have experience developing formal reliability or verification test plans? Please answer Yes or No.
- Do you have hands-on experience performing root-cause or failure analysis? Please answer Yes or No.
- Do you have experience testing complex electromechanical products? Please answer Yes or No.
- Do you have experience with regulated standards such as UL, IEC, NSF, Energy Star, CE, or similar? Please answer Yes or No.
- Are you comfortable with $65.33/hour and working onsite in Marietta, Ohio? Please answer Yes or No.
Work Location: In person
Salary : $65