Reliability Engineer IV (Mendon or Ft Worth)

Title: Reliability Engineer IV
Location : Cache County, UT or Dallas/Ft Worth, TX regions (hybrid, onsite 3x/wk)
Target Start Date : ASAP
Type: Contract
Pay Rate : $57.00-$75.25/hr (DOE)

Position Summary
Our client, a global leader in advanced autonomous and robotic solutions across multiple industries, is seeking a Reliability Engineer IV to lead reliability engineering activities for complex electromechanical systems, ensuring products meet reliability, availability, maintainability, and durability objectives. This role develops reliability requirements, defines validation strategies, analyzes failures, identifies technical risks, and drives corrective actions through collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams. The engineer also provides technical guidance and supports system design, verification, validation, and product release activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead reliability planning, analysis, verification, and validation for complex systems and subsystems.
• Develop measurable reliability, availability, maintainability, and durability requirements.
• Define validation plans, test procedures, acceptance criteria, and objective evidence.
• Lead reliability analyses including FMEA, FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), reliability block diagrams, and risk assessments.
• Develop environmental, durability, accelerated-life, and qualification test strategies.
• Analyze laboratory, field, maintenance, and operational data to identify failure trends and reliability risks.
• Lead root cause investigations and coordinate corrective and preventive actions across engineering disciplines.
• Verify corrective actions through regression testing and reliability growth activities.
• Perform statistical reliability analyses including Weibull analysis, life-data analysis, and failure-rate estimation.
• Participate in design reviews, test readiness reviews, release assessments, supplier reliability evaluations, and component qualification activities.
• Develop reliability metrics, dashboards, technical reports, and engineering documentation.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership on reliability best practices.

• Bachelor's degree in Reliability Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in reliability engineering, validation, durability testing, failure analysis, or product assurance.
• Strong experience with FMEA, FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), root cause analysis, and corrective action methodologies.
• Experience developing reliability requirements and validation strategies for complex electromechanical or integrated hardware/software systems.
• Knowledge of reliability statistics, Weibull analysis, life-data analysis, probability distributions, and reliability modeling.
• Experience with environmental, durability, accelerated-life, and qualification testing.
• Proficiency with engineering data analysis tools such as Python, MATLAB, Minitab, JMP, or Excel.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, technical writing, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills.

• Master's degree in a related engineering discipline.
• Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) or equivalent certification.
• Experience supporting autonomous systems, robotics, heavy equipment, industrial machinery, or other complex electromechanical products.
• Experience with Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety (RAMS) analysis.
• Knowledge of highly accelerated life testing (HALT), highly accelerated stress screening (HASS), Design of Experiments (DOE), and physics-of-failure methodologies.
• Experience with embedded systems, sensors, functional safety, supplier reliability, prototype-to-production transitions, and engineering lifecycle management tools such as Jama, Jira, PLM, or FRACAS.

Welcome to ConsultNet, a premier national provider of technology talent and solutions. Our expertise spans across project services, contract-to-hire, direct search, and managed services onshore, nearshore, and hybrid. For over 25 years, we have connected thousands of consultants with meaningful roles through a personal, communication-driven approach, partnering with a diverse client base to build high-performing teams and create lasting impact. Our comprehensive service offerings cover a wide range of technology and engineering positions across key markets nationwide. Learn more at www.consultnet.com .

We champion equality and inclusivity, proudly supporting an Equal Opportunity Employer policy. We welcome applicants regardless of Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other status protected by law.