Reliability Engineer II – Exempt

Join our team in Mounds View, MN, where innovation meets reliability in a collaborative and dynamic work environment. We are seeking a dedicated professional to contribute to our cardiac surgery perfusion products. This role offers the opportunity to work onsite, ensuring hands‑on experience and collaboration with a team of experts.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Science, or a technical field with 2 years of work experience in Engineering and/or Quality
• OR Advanced degree in Engineering, Science, or technical field with 0 years of work experience in Engineering and/or Quality

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field strongly preferred
• Experience in medical device design and application of test standards
• Experience in applying statistical methods to design reliability and process capability
• Certified Quality Engineer, Reliability Engineer, or equivalent desired
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Effective team player with cross‑functional capabilities
• Excellent presentation skills
• Ability to handle multiple tasks/projects and manage priorities accordingly
• Working knowledge of appropriate industry standards
• Ability to work in a team environment and exert influence without alienating others
• Knowledge/basic understanding of specification development, industry standards, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), etc.

• Develops, coordinates, and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts and design of experiments (DOE) constructs
• Recommends design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability
• Completes risk analysis studies of new design and processes
• Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting product and processes
• Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards
• Analyzes preliminary plans and develops reliability engineering programs to achieve company, customer, and governmental agency reliability objectives
• May develop mathematical models to identify units, batches, or processes posing excessive failure risks
• Proposes changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability
• May determine units and/or batches requiring environmental testing, and specifies minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data

• Detail oriented and organized
• Strong collaboration and communication skills

• Reviewing proposed manufacturing, supplier, and design changes to commercially released product
• Complaint trending to determine if there are any signals that need to be escalated
• Risk management document ownership

We are looking to fill this position as soon as possible, with interviews starting the week of 1/5 or 1/12. The role requires a minimum of four days onsite in our Mounds View, MN office.

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