Reliability Engineer

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Sub‑Zero, Wolf, and Cove is a leading manufacturer of luxury kitchen appliances, a longstanding family‑owned company in the Madison area. We are dedicated to design excellence, performance, and quality, serving customers with integrity, teamwork, and accountability.

We are looking for a Reliability Engineer who will define and drive design assurance and reliability requirements to ensure our products meet customer expectations of quality and performance throughout the product lifecycle. This position offers growth and development opportunities for both technical experts and future leaders.

• Provide reliability engineering support as a member of the business operations/production and cross‑functional product support team.
• Work with cross‑functional teams to establish reliability plans and verification testing requirements.
• Create reliability improvement plans by reviewing prior‑generation product warranty claims and call‑center data to mitigate field losses.
• Integrate reliability analysis techniques into product or program design objectives.
• Conduct effective Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis.
• Generate test plans and collaborate with test lab technicians to evaluate product and components.

• Deep understanding of failure rates, modes, and mechanisms to support robust product design.
• Experience diagnosing and remedying reliability problems in existing products, testing and implementing solutions.
• Proficiency with warranty and call‑center data, establishing trends, determining root causes, and driving corrective action.

• Work with service personnel to identify field problems and implement solutions.
• Partner with purchasing and component suppliers to drive reliability improvement in purchased components.
• Collaborate with Quality Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering to identify in‑house problems, implement solutions, and support reliability initiatives and continuous improvement.

• Experience in Engineering (Design / Reliability / Quality).
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Chemical, Mechanical, or Electrical engineering.
• At least 2 years of full‑time, on‑the‑job experience.

• Experience in the appliance industry or with mass‑produced consumer products.
• ASQ CRE (Certified Reliability Engineer) or willingness to obtain certification.
• Experience with field failure / warranty data analysis and tracking.
• Familiarity with statistics and reliability analysis techniques such as Weibull analysis, reliability block diagrams, FMEAs, derating, and reliability allocation.
• Failure analysis, diagnosis, or troubleshooting skills.

• National Instruments LabVIEW.
• Design of Experiments.
• HALT/HASS, accelerated life testing.
• Electrical circuit reliability.
• Gas system reliability.

• Competitive compensation based on skills.
• Industry‑leading health, dental, and vision plans.
• Generous 401(k) savings and profit sharing.
• On‑site UW Health clinic, fitness center, and walking paths.
• Education assistance and internal training programs.
• Electric vehicle charging.
• Maternity and paternity leave.

This position requires a pre‑employment drug/alcohol test and background check, which will be administered after a conditional job offer is extended. A negative drug/alcohol test result is required for employment. Refusal to take the test or a positive result may disqualify a candidate from further consideration. All drug testing will be conducted in accordance with federal and state laws.

Seniority Level: Entry Level

Employment Type:

Full‑time

Job Function:
Engineering and Information Technology