Reliability Engineer (NPD)

Job title: Reliability Engineer (NPD)

About the Role Join Milwaukee Tool as a Reliability Engineer in New Product Development (NPD). Use engineering skills to contribute to the development and qualification of power tool products, defining test methods and product requirements to create durable, disruptive, market-leading products. The role offers a fast-paced environment with opportunities to grow and collaborate across global teams.

Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.

What You'll Do

• Be a subject matter expert in the New Product Development team with respect to test methods, product requirements, user needs, and reliability
• Develop Critical to Quality (CTQ) requirements from collaboration with Product Management and participation in User Needs research
• Collaborate with Engineering and Marketing to define product specifications with respect to all aspects of reliability, quality, and user needs
• Design experimental techniques to improve development and testing efforts
• Collaborate with global teams to ensure robust manufacturing and supplier quality and test lab correlation
• Track multiple projects simultaneously to ensure adherence to quality, schedule, and the Milwaukee Tool process
• Develop new test procedures and create test plans to evaluate product performance against user and product requirements
• Effectively document test plans, procedures, and best practices for execution in test laboratories
• Perform data analysis, post-processing, and visualization of test data
• Summarize test results with statistical techniques and present concise, logical, written conclusions
• Ensure timely failure reporting and drive root cause analysis and effective corrective/preventive actions

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field, preferably with 0-2 years of experience in similar product development, reliability, test, or quality roles
• Experience with or desire to learn: Analytical problem-solving skills and statistical application in areas such as Design of Experiments, sampling techniques, regression, reliability, FMEAs, hypothesis testing
• Hands-on experience with data acquisition systems, data analysis, and related software (e.g. Python, nCode Glyphworks, Dewesoft, LabVIEW)
• Experience with life data analysis, reliability distributions, statistical analysis, and related software (e.g. Minitab, Reliasoft Weibull++)
• Experience in manufacturing quality and root cause analysis (RCA, FRACAS)
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels with creative problem-solving capabilities
• Ability to travel 10% (domestic and international)