Reliability Engineer

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Founded in 1918, Kearfott Corporation is a global Aerospace and Defense supplier for over 100 years, known for precision motion control products and inertial navigation components. With a century of expertise, Kearfott delivers quality, reliability, and cutting‑edge technology to meet sea, land, air, and space navigation requirements worldwide.

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The Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring systems meet mission‑critical reliability, availability, and durability requirements throughout their life cycle. This role conducts reliability predictions, failure analyses, reliability modeling, and testing to improve system performance and reduce life‑cycle costs. The engineer collaborates closely with design, systems engineering, manufacturing, quality, and sustainment teams to influence design and validate reliability performance against customer, military, and regulatory standards.

• Work with Integrated Product Team (IPT) to identify safety and reliability critical items, perform analysis, and identify any non‑conformances and offer design alternatives.
• Generate reliability, maintainability and system safety reports for IPT and customer review.
• Perform system safety analyses per MIL-STD-882E, SAE ARP
  4761 and follow SAE ARP
  4754 guidance.
• Perform Maintainability analyses per MIL-STD-470.
• Review customer reliability, safety and maintainability requirements and provide RMS/C analysis.
• Performs other duties as may be assigned.

• Experience with aerospace reliability standards and methodologies
  • MIL-HDBK-217F, MIL-HDBK-217 Plus at a minimum
  • Fault tree analysis
  • FMECA
  • System Safety Assessment
  • Hazard analysis
  • Common Mode Analysis
  • SEE/SEU analysis in accordance with IEC 62396-1
  • Reliability processes experience
  • Reliability stress predictions, failure rate predictions
  • Physics of Failure based analysis methods
• Ability to multitask using the appropriate level of priority setting.
• Ability to work well under pressure, to adhere to deadlines and to be flexible.

• BS in Mechanical or Electrical engineering; MS preferred.
• 5‑10 years of experience in a similar role within the aerospace industry, including Reliability, Maintainability, and Safety engineering analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment.
• Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain a US Government Security Clearance.

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in New Jersey is $125,000 - $175,000 annually. This is not a guarantee of compensation; final offers may vary based on factors such as experience and internal consistency.

Benefits include medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; a 401(k) plan with company match; tuition assistance; paid vacation and sick days; paid holidays; a 9/80 work week with every other Friday off; and monthly employee events celebrating workplace culture.

Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans.

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Seniority Level: Mid‑Senior level |

Employment Type:

Full‑time | Job Function:
Engineering and Information Technology | Industry: Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing.