Sr Manager, Quality & Reliability Engineering

We’re looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success – and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.

The Sr Manager, Design Quality, Reliability & Development Assurance will lead and partner with engineering teams to establish scalable, practical approaches for design quality, verification and validation, reliability engineering, technical reviews, and product development rigor.

This role is responsible for driving consistency in how products are developed, tested, and assessed for readiness while maintaining the speed and agility required in a fast-growing New Product Introduction (NPI) environment.

The successful candidate will combine strong engineering credibility with exceptional influence and change leadership skills. They will build common practices, coach engineering teams, establish engineering standards, and ultimately develop a team that enables predictable product development outcomes across multiple business units. This role is a key member of the Engineering Excellence organization.

WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS POSITION:

Design Quality Excellence Develop and implement standard engineering practices that improve design quality and development consistency.

Establish scalable design review methodologies and standard processes.

Define engineering readiness and technical maturity expectations throughout the product development lifecycle.

Partner with engineering leaders to improve technical rigor while maintaining development speed.

Provide independent technical challenge and feedback during development reviews.

Define expectations for system architecture, multi-functional design reviews, design maturity, issue closure, and required technical evidence.

Ensure customer requirements, product requirements, critical-to-quality characteristics, and initial risks are translated into clear engineering inputs early in development.

Verification & Validation Excellence Establish common verification and validation methodologies across the organization.

Define expectations for verification strategies, test planning, test evidence, and requirements-to-test traceability.

Develop scalable approaches for requirements-to-test traceability.

Partner with engineering teams to improve verification planning early in development.

Support readiness assessments for major product development milestones.

Ensure validation confirms that requirements and critical-to-quality characteristics have been met and that results are appropriately documented.

Establish measures that evaluate verification and validation effectiveness, including coverage, issue discovery, closure, and retest.

Development Assurance & NPI Readiness Own the technical assurance framework and evidence expectations for key NPI tollgates and verification checkpoints.

Define scalable entry and exit criteria for EV, DV, PV, and launch readiness based on product risk and complexity.

Assess technical maturity, quality and reliability risk, and completeness of required engineering evidence.

Ensure unresolved technical risks, exceptions, and deviations are clearly documented, owned, time-bound, and visible to decision-makers.

Partner with Engineering leaders and PMO to integrate quality, reliability, and technical-readiness inputs into NPI stage-gate decisions.

Support risk-based application of the assurance process to maintain rigor without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.

Reliability Engineering Develop and deploy reliability engineering methodologies appropriate to product risk and complexity.

Establish frameworks for DFMEA, risk assessment, reliability planning, and reliability growth.

Drive proactive identification and…