Reliability Engineer

Summary:

Responsible for Reliability/Quality Engineering activities supporting the manufacture of FLIR Un-Cooled Camera Systems as well as other projects.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contributes to product development as a sustaining team member supporting FLIR’s Un-Cooled Camera System level products.
• Conducts product and process qualification planning, testing and reporting for new designs and processes.
• Responsible for fielded reliability metrics and reporting.
• Supports supplier component qualification.
• Coordinates containment and corrective action for non-conforming material.
• Acts as primary Quality and Reliability Representative with suppliers and customers.
• Leads regular quality status & improvement meetings.
• Conducts Failure/Trend Analysis and Analytical Problem Solving, and recommends and implements corrective actions.
• Generates quality procedures and work instructions as needed.
• Travels as required to suppliers, customers and/or outside labs as needed.
• Position may also support other FLIR Systems products in a project capacity including conducting environmental testing, special inspections, failure analysis and reporting.

Core Competencies:

• Collaboration & Teamwork is necessary establish good working relationships with product team and when working with other product teams.
• Strong Communication Skills are necessary when creating proposals and communicating in writing, in such a manner, that it is easy to understand and interpret what and why information is being communicated. Listens attentively without interrupting and/or being distracted by other things.
• Displaying strong personal Initiative and motivation is vital to achieve desired performance results with projects that support the organization.
• Strong Oral Communication and Presentation Skills are essential when making oral and graphical presentations to capture the interest and involvement of the audience while developing/delivering a clear and concise message.

Essential Functions:

• Must be able to work at a computer for extended periods of time.
• Must be able to travel up to 10%.
• Must be able to communicate orally and in writing using the English language.
• Applicants must be either a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, legal permanent resident, asylee, refugee or must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce.

Education and Experience:

• BS in Engineering or Technical discipline required.
• Experience with complex electronic circuit failure analysis desired.
• Six-Sigma training and / or certification preferred.
• Lean manufacturing knowledge preferred
• Knowledge and experience in the following is preferred:

- IR or similar technology

- Quality systems ala ISO 9001:2015

- Problem solving methodology and failure analysis tools

- Statistical process control

- Measurement system analysis (Gage R&R)

- Supplier quality

- Hand’s on optical and mechanical inspection skills

- Electro-mechanical shaker systems and environmental chambers

- MS Office applications (must be proficient with Excel)

- Statistical and reliability software applications