Reliability Engineer II

Overview

Come be DISRUPTIVE with us! At Milwaukee Tool, our most valued resource is our dedicated team of employees—employees who work with a passion to be the best and take pride in their work and in the Milwaukee brand. We invest in growth and development from day one.

All our teams touch every step of the process, and our Engineering teams contribute to continuous innovations. The fast-paced, agile environment delivers disruptive technologies by providing resources to excel and by working directly with End Users to deliver heavy-duty products with high performance. We create best-in-class products by leveraging advanced analysis tools, extensive testing regimes, state-of-the-art manufacturing processes and cross-functional agility.

The Reliability Engineer’s primary duties are to utilize engineering skills to contribute to the development and qualification of power tool products. The Reliability Engineer will define the test methods and product requirements needed to develop durable, disruptive, and market-leading products.

A successful candidate will bring curiosity, accountability, and strong experience in requirements definition, test development, validation, and data acquisition to the New Product Development team. The Candidate enjoys a fast-paced work environment with excellent visibility and opportunities to grow.

• Product Development:
  Be a subject matter expert in the New Product Development team with respect to test methods, product requirements, user needs, and reliability
• Product Development:
  Develop Critical to Quality (CTQ) requirements from collaboration with Product Management and participation in User Needs research
• Product Development:
  Collaborate with Engineering and Marketing to define product specifications with respect to all aspects of reliability, quality, and user needs
• Product Development:
  Design experimental techniques to improve development and testing efforts
• Product Development:
  Collaborate with global teams to ensure robust manufacturing and supplier quality and test lab correlation
• Product Development:
  Track multiple projects simultaneously to ensure adherence to quality, schedule, and the Milwaukee Tool process

• Testing and Analysis:
  Develop new test procedures and create test plans to evaluate product performance against user and product requirements
• Testing and Analysis:
  Effectively document test plans, procedures, and best practices for execution in test laboratories
• Testing and Analysis:
  Perform data analysis, post-processing, and visualization of test data
• Testing and Analysis:
  Summarize test results with statistical techniques and present concise, logical, written conclusions
• Testing and Analysis:
  Ensure timely failure reporting and drive root cause analysis and effective corrective/preventive actions

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field with 2-5 years of experience in similar product development, reliability, test, or quality roles
• Analytical problem-solving skills and statistical application in areas such as Design of Experiments, sampling techniques, regression, reliability, FMEAs, hypothesis testing
• Hands-on experience with data acquisition systems, data analytics, and related software (e.g. Python, nCode Glyphworks, Dewesoft, LabVIEW)
• Experience with life data analysis, reliability distributions, statistical analysis, and related software (e.g. Minitab, Reliasoft Weibull++)
• Experience in manufacturing quality, root cause analysis (RCA, FRACAS), and issue management
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels with creative problem-solving capabilities
• Ability to travel 10% (includes both domestic and international)

Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.