Reliability Engineer I

We welcome you to join Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Cove as a Reliability Engineer in Madison, WI location.

Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Cove the leading manufacturer of luxury kitchen appliances is a longstanding, family-owned company in the Madison area. Icons of design and paragons of performance and quality, Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Cove are the refrigeration, cooking, and dishwashing specialists found in world’s most luxurious homes. We look for team members who are driven by innovation and excellence, striving to serve our customers by doing what is right—with integrity, teamwork, and accountability.

Growth and development are important aspects of this position. Whether you aspire to be a leader or a technical expert, this position will set you up for success in the future.

Primary Responsibilities: 

As a Reliability Engineer, you are responsible for defining and driving design assurance and reliability requirements to ensure our products meet customer expectations of quality and performance through the product life cycle.

• Provide reliability engineering as a member of a business operations/production and cross functional product support team
• Work with cross-functional teams to establish reliability plans and reliability verification testing requirements.
• Create reliability improvement plans by reviewing previous generation product warranty claims and call center data to mitigate field losses

• Integrate reliability analysis techniques into product or program design objectives
• Conduct effective Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis
• Generate test plans and work with test lab technicians to evaluate product and components.

Strong Analyst skills with:

• Failure rates, modes, and mechanisms to support robust product design.
• Reliability problems in existing products, develop, test, implement, and track solutions.
• Warranty and call center data, establish trends, determine root cause of failure and corrective action.

Work cross functionally with:

• Service personnel to identify field problems and implement solutions.
• Purchasing, and component suppliers to drive reliability improvement in purchased components.
• Quality Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering in identifying in-house problems, implementing solutions, and supporting reliability initiatives / continuous improvement.

Required skills:

• Experience in Engineering (Design / Reliability / Quality)  
• Bachelors – Engineering / Chemical / Mechanical/ Electrical
• 2 years of on-the-job experience/ full time role.

Preferred skills

• Experience in appliance industry or mass-produced consumer products
• ASQ CRE (Certified Reliability Engineer) – or open to getting certified.
• Experience with field failure / warranty data analysis and tracking
• Experience with statistics and reliability analysis techniques such as Weibull analysis, Reliability Block Diagrams, FMEAs, Derating, and Reliability Allocation
• Failure analysis, diagnosis, or troubleshooting skills

Preferred Experience with

• National Instruments LabVIEW
• Design of Experiments
• HALT/HASS, Accelerated Life Testing
• Electrical circuit reliability
• Gas Systems

We value our employees by providing:

• Competitive compensation based on skills
• Industry leading health, dental, and vision plans
• Generous 401 (K) savings and profit sharing
• On-site UW Health clinic, fitness center, and walking paths
• Education assistance and internal training programs
• Electric vehicle charging
• Maternity & paternity leave
• Interested in learning more on our robust benefits package we offer? Click here!

This position requires a pre-employment drug/alcohol test and background check, which will be administered after a conditional job offer is extended. A negative drug/alcohol test result is required for employment. Refusal to take the test or a positive result may disqualify a candidate from further consideration.  All drug testing will be conducted in accordance with federal and state laws.