Principal Reliability Engineer - Battery Systems

Job Description:

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 an unparalleled pride in their work and in the Milwaukee brand. We know that the only way to sustain growth and success is to value the growth and success of each person within the organization that's why we invest in an individual's growth and development from day one.

All our teams touch every step of the process, which is why our engineering teams are some of the key contributors to our continuous innovations. The fast-paced, agile environment continuously delivers disruptive technologies by providing every team with the resources needed to excel and working directly with end users to understand how 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.

Primary duties are to utilize advanced-level engineering skills to contribute to the development and qualification of battery systems, especially low & high-power electronics.

This position requires strong cross-functional communication skills and analytical expertise to help launch new, exciting, and innovative solutions that meet user needs in a fast-paced environment.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Product Development

• Act as technical lead with respect to product quality, reliability, user requirements, and warranty information for new product designs and engineering changes

• Act as a subject matter expert in power electronics design for reliability techniques

• Analyze, draw conclusions, report, and present product information utilizing statistical techniques such as Weibull analysis, reliability distributions/matrices, and reliability models.

• Ensure timely failure reporting and lead root cause analysis and effective corrective/preventative actions (FRACA)

• Support Advanced Engineering activities targeted at Critical-to-Quality needs

• Carry a systems mindset with awareness of how different cross-functional teams contribute to the development of products.

• Support development and refinement of tools and processes for execution of system engineering practices within an agile/high-velocity product development environment.

• Lead system requirements definition and documentation from voice of customer, business, and regulation.

• Lead the development of system verification and validation strategies keeping in mind project schedules and ROI. Strategies may include reliability allocation, FMEAs, physics of failure based accelerated life test, component/sub-system/system level testing, etc.

• Establish work instructions, test procedures, and best practices for global test labs.

• Establish and maintain a strong awareness and database of competitive offerings, product strategies, and business climate to help shape a best-in-class product roadmap.

• Interact with global cross-functional teams and suppliers that participate in product development.

• Serve as a role model of Milwaukee Tool's culture while mentoring, guiding, and coaching junior engineers.

• Quickly, effectively, and candidly frame-up and escalate business risks/opportunities up, down, and across the organization.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical or related engineering field and 10+ years of experience in design/validation/reliability OR a Master of Science Degree in Electrical or related engineering field and 8+ years of experience in design/validation/reliability.

• Proficient in systems thinking and application to engineered systems.

• Excellent problem-solving skills, exercises independent judgement, and works well under pressure in a dynamic environment.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels with creative problem-solving capabilities

• Ability to travel 10% of the time (domestic and international).

• Experience must include:

• New product commercialization processes emphasizing design, manufacturing, quality, test, and/or reliability activities

• Proven experience leading a primary function within a project team.

• Design, development, and verification of power electronics

• Design of Experiments, life data analysis, and other related statistical tools and software (i.e. Minitab, Reliasoft)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with IC/Semiconductor reliability, board reliability, display reliability, IC package types, board design, and layout.

• Knowledge of methods to design in reliability for components including experience with the Sherlock software for electronics.

• Knowledge of reliability warranty analysis and reliability prediction methods.

• Knowledge and experience with HALT and HASS for electronic and/or electro-mechanical systems.

• Experience with electrical stress testing, environmental stress testing, fatigue testing, vibration, and shock testing.

• Experience with lithium-ion battery technology

• Experience working with complex Battery Systems

• Experience and commitment to design for reliability (DFR) principals.

• Apply reliability failure physics to design accelerated test methods to failure modes exploration and reliability growth.

• Working level understanding of industry standards - IEC, IEEE, ISO, ANSI, ASTM and JEDEC.

• The ability and desire to achieve ASQ Reliability Engineering Certification (ASQ-CRE)

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