Senior Principal Reliability Engineer

Senior Principal Reliability Engineer at Collins Aerospace

Location:

HND
99:
Field Office - ND Remote Location, Remote City, ND 58535 USA

Date Posted:

Position Role Type:
Hybrid

U.S. Person required:
This job requires a U.S. Person as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) or 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

Security Clearance:
None / Not Required

This position is for a Senior Principal Reliability Engineering professional with deep knowledge and highly developed technical expertise. The role involves training less experienced employees, applying expert knowledge to issues, serving as the customer reliability interface, and establishing common work practices. Reliability Engineering is responsible for ensuring our products are safe, reliable, maintainable, and delivered on time. It is a sub-function under our Systems Engineering role, with a primary focus on new product development for Cargo Systems.

• Perform safety assessments in accordance with SAE ARP
  4761 and/or MIL-STD-882E, including but not limited to:
• System Safety Program Plans (SSPP)
• Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA)
• Preliminary System Safety Assessments (PSSA)
• System Safety Assessments (SSA)
• Fault Tree Analyses (FTA)
• Common Mode Analyses (CMA)
• Review, assess, and influence designs to optimize safety‑related metrics, ensuring designs incorporate the safety features required for all safety certification requirements.
• Perform reliability assessments for mechanical and electro‑mechanical equipment in accordance with industry‑accepted practices, including but not limited to:
• Reliability Program Plans (RPP)
• Reliability predictions to establish Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) estimates and component failure rates, utilizing industry standards and field performance data for increased accuracy.
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Failure Mode, Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
• Contribute to defining specific safety and reliability design requirements based on customer specifications, culminating in performing RM&S assessment artifacts in accordance with engineering standard work.
• Perform maintainability assessments and support testability analyses.
• Support and/or lead reliability‑related tests (Highly Accelerated Life Test (HALT) and Reliability Enhancement Test (RET)), including developing test procedures and reports, overseeing the conduct of the test, leading failure review board meetings, and defining corrective actions.
• Investigate and implement improvements in current standard processes to enhance efficiency and quality of analyses and documentation.
• Support integration activities and reviews with internal and external customers.
• Perform (as required) bid and proposal activities for future programs.
• Provide technical direction across various stages of the new product development lifecycle.
• Work effectively with various engineering teams to conduct data analysis and trending.
• Communicate complex technical information to cross‑functional audiences, including customers and management.

• Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Deep experience with reliability predictions.
• Experience with engineering team management.

• Experience and knowledge in RM&S engineering, including procedures and tools contained in SAE Aerospace Recommended Practices ARP 4754, ARP 4761, or military safety standards such as MIL-STD-882E.
• Possess analog and digital circuit design analysis and/or mechanical design analysis skills.
• Ability to manage multiple technical projects and customer requests.
• Experience in gathering, analyzing, and presenting data.
• Experience using scripts to organize data for trending analysis.
• Experience developing and providing technical presentations to audiences including internal and external stakeholders in the U.S. and internationally.
• Experience with CAFTA or similar fault tree analysis tools.
• Experience with MS Office tools for data analysis.
• Proficiency in reliability modeling.
• Ability to conduct and oversee reliability testing (accelerated life testing, degradation testing, HALT/HASS).
• Expertise in various reliability…