Reliability Engineer

Overview

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 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 the ability to be flexible.

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