Senior Reliability Engineer

The primary efforts of the Senior Reliability Engineer are to perform reliability activities in development, design, testing, analysis, product, and quality assurance that require technical experience and knowledge. The incumbent is responsible for supporting the quality system by documented procedures, quality standards, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Reliability Program: Develop operating procedures and guidelines to establish best practices that shall be followed for future products and components. Assess existing field data and test lab capabilities, identify gaps and grow capabilities as needed to ensure that future products are robust and reliable. They should be able to accomplish after 90 days after training.

• Legacy Product Support: Conduct post market surveillance, evaluate and assess field data and conduct real-time aging of the product. Close the loop by tracking product reliability against predictions, updating the models as necessary. Support complaint/failure investigations and lead corrective and preventive actions associated with the quality management system. Address component obsolesces by helping identify replacement components and leading the qualification of replacement components.

• Design for Reliability: Work closely with design engineering to make recommendations and improve reliability through design (modeling, stress analysis, and implementation). Ensure reliability deliverables identified in the plans are complete per the project schedules.

  • Drive/establish reliability goals and conduct reliability predictions.

  • Failure mode identification and testing.

  • Develop and execute highly accelerated life test (HALT) and environmental stress screening programs.

  • Work with component suppliers to ensure that components are qualified to operate reliably in their use environment over their expected service life.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in engineering, computer science or mathematics.

• 10 years of electrical and reliability experience.

• Has extensive experience with reliability predictions of electro-mechanical assemblies (e.g Mean Time to Failure predictions using MIL-HDBK-217F or other prediction methods, etc.)

• Experience with reliability testing (life testing, HTOL, HALT),

• Previous work experience in high reliability field such as the medical device industry, automotive, or aerospace is preferred.

• Understanding of physics of failure modes

• Can develop qualification plans and protocols for individual components and commercial devices.

Pay Transparency

• A reasonable estimate of the annual base salary for this position is $120,000 - $140,000 + discretionary annual bonus. Pay ranges may vary by location.

Additional Information

• This position is onsite at our location in Clear Lake (Southeast Houston, TX)

• This is not a maintenance/facilities role

Employee benefits include

• Health benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision

• Personal and Vacation Time

• Retirement & Savings Plan (401K)

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Training & Education Assistance

• Bonus Referral Program

• Service Awards

• Employee Recognition Program

• Flexible Work Schedules