Senior Reliability Engineer
Zoetis

Role Description

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Reliability Engineer is essential for ensuring the long-term performance of drug delivery and diagnostic devices in the animal health industry. Our products integrate hardware and software, and test plans include each.

This position will work as an independent contributor in creation of new test methodologies, support of existing test plans, and objective data analysis driving greater reliability for Zoetis products. Their work will take place throughout a product lifecycle and address components, subsystems, and full instruments.

The role is part of an engineering group working toward goals resulting from Quality Control, Engineering and Manufacturing needs. The engineer in this position will often influence the efforts of other team members during a project, though no specific supervisory responsibilities are attached to the role.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

The Senior Reliability Engineer will:

• Own or assist small-to-large scale reliability tests for one or more projects with overlapping timelines
• Create and complete test plans, analyze data, perform teardown, and assess results to deliver clear findings
• Provide detailed reports in written or verbal format for engineering, biological, and non-technical audiences
• Develop test methodology as needed to provide continuous improvement to the team
• Work to support engineering design, analysis and other technical requirements
• Mentor junior engineers in problem-solving, project management, and reliability planning and analysis

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Required: BS in Engineering (preferred: Electrical, Mechanical, or Biomedical) with 7+ years test engineering experience (3+ of these focused on reliability) in an electro-mechanical device development environment
• Preferred: MS (Electrical, Mechanical, or Biomedical) with 5+ years test engineering (3+ of these focused on reliability) in an electro-mechanical device development environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS

Required:

• Strong skills in critical thinking and problem solving, planning and organizing, decision-making
• Excellent communication skills, influencing and leading, facilitation and teamwork capabilities
• Demonstrated statistics-based data analysis using packages such as Weibull++. JMP, Minitab, Python
• Verifiable knowledge of ALT, HALT, HASS or environmental testing
• Reliability engineering tools: root cause (5 why, Ishikawa diagrams), Weibull prediction, warranty estimates
• Project management through JIRA or other equivalent workflow tools

Preferred:

• Experience supporting review/development of statements of work, schematics, and CAD for new test hardware
• Skillset in CAD packages such as SolidWorks or AutoCAD
• Software development supporting data acquisition
• ASQ CRE or other similar certification

Full time

Regular

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