Must Have Skills: Reliability engineering professional with FMEA, MTBF and validation testing.
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Description:
SUMMARY
The Reliability Engineer is responsible for initiating activities and projects to improve the reliability of components and Aerco products. This position performs root cause analysis and establishes corrective action as the basis for eliminating product failures. All high incident warranty issues will be handled under a project management format that will close the loop between Tech Support, RGA Admin, Engineering evaluation, and Vendor or Manufacturer of the problem part. The Reliability Engineer will be the “go to” person to solve existing product problems and will be part of the new product development team to insure potential problems are avoided or minimized in new products.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following: Other duties may be assigned.
1. Confers with Tech Support / RGA Admin to determine top warranty issues through the use of Pareto analysis. Each issue will be minimized or eliminated through the following steps; problems will be researched, solutions proposed, tested, reviewed and approved, then implemented through manufacturing, technical service, documentation, and purchasing.
2. Individually and with others performs root cause failure analysis in order to avoid future failures.
3. Administer MTBF and/or Life Cycle Testing in the Aerco lab by requesting testing services of engineering lab personnel for the purpose of finding root cause. Track all field site test locations.
4. Obtain and examine basic reliability failure data from field studies and/or the data base and correlate the data for analysis using engineering techniques, principles and procedures.
5. Presents details of equipment and process failure studies to the Engineering Department in order to ensure a higher level of future and current reliability through design revisions.
6. Work within the processes of the Quality Clinic to provide further study of the reliability of Aerco products by initiating improvement projects.
7. Contact the customers through written reports on the results of Aerco’s failure analysis and the course of action to be taken.
8. Provide feedback of corrective action to Technical Service, Product Line Team and all Training/O&M Documentation.
9. Maintain records of all reliability projects.
10. Lead Advanced Product Development projects regarding robust design standards and creating internal design guides for reliability.
11. Reviews new product designs for compliance with reliability engineering principles.
12. Collaborates with design personnel in design of unique elements or components of product.
13. Additional projects and tasks to be assigned as needed
QUALIFICATIONS
1. Ability to drive world class quality systems and processes.
2. Excellent interpersonal, communications and presentation skills
3. Well developed organizational skills
4. Ability to manage multiple priorities
5. Must excel in a team environment
6. Must embrace change
7. Working knowledge of MS Office
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
1. BS degree in Mechanical Engineering. Masters a +
2. 7-10 years experience in industrial manufacturing, automotive machining and assembly (powertrain), fuel systems management, parameter design, robust engineering design, etc.
3. Requires engineering knowledge in product design, fuel systems management, combustion performance, manufacturing processes, and troubleshooting.
Aerco is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/D/V.
