Job Description
Join our team in Mounds View, MN, where you will play a pivotal role in enhancing product quality and process capability across our manufacturing sites. As a Senior Reliability Engineer Contractor, you will provide technical leadership and reliability engineering support to ensure supply continuity and reduce risk.
Position Summary
This role partners closely with Manufacturing, Quality, Operations, Supplier Quality, Design Engineering, and Regulatory Affairs to investigate complex issues, implement corrective actions, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate is a hands-on reliability engineering professional with experience in manufacturing environments, root cause investigation, risk management, and statistical analysis.
Key Responsibilities
- Manufacturing Reliability Support
- Serve as the primary reliability engineering resource for manufacturing sites and operations teams.
- Support production, sustaining engineering, and product transfer activities by assessing reliability risks and implementing mitigation strategies.
- Collaborate with site leadership to identify and prioritize reliability improvement opportunities.
- Evaluate process changes for potential impact to product reliability and long-term performance.
- Support manufacturing readiness activities for product launches, transfers, and capacity expansion initiatives.
- Failure Analysis & Investigation
- Lead investigations of manufacturing nonconformances, quality issues, field concerns, and reliability events.
- Utilize structured problem-solving methodologies to identify root causes and implement effective corrective and preventive actions.
- Conduct data-driven analyses to determine failure trends, performance degradation mechanisms, and process variation impacts.
- Facilitate cross-functional problem-solving sessions and technical reviews.
- Reliability & Risk Management
- Conduct and support reliability assessments including Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), reliability predictions and modeling, statistical analysis, Design of Experiments (DOE), and process capability analysis.
- Support risk management activities in accordance with applicable quality system requirements.
- Identify reliability risks associated with manufacturing processes, suppliers, equipment, and materials.
- Continuous Improvement
- Drive reliability-focused continuous improvement initiatives that improve product performance and manufacturing efficiency.
- Analyze manufacturing and field performance metrics to identify opportunities for risk reduction.
- Recommend and implement process controls that improve consistency and reduce quality escapes.
- Develop reliability dashboards and performance metrics to monitor effectiveness of improvement activities.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Engineering, Supplier Quality, Operations, Design Engineering, and Program Management teams.
- Provide technical guidance on reliability best practices and statistical methodologies.
- Support audits, inspections, and regulatory inquiries as needed.
- Present technical findings and recommendations to site leadership and program teams.
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Quality Engineering, or related technical discipline.
- 7 years of engineering experience in reliability, quality, manufacturing, product development, or related engineering function.
- Demonstrated experience supporting manufacturing operations in a regulated environment.
- Experience leading root cause investigations and corrective action implementation.
- Strong analytical and statistical problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of reliability engineering principles, methodologies, and tools.
- Ability to influence stakeholders across multiple functions and sites.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience supporting medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, aerospace, automotive, or other highly regulated industries.
- Familiarity with FDA, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, and GMP requirements.
- Experience with Minitab, JMP, ReliaSoft, Statistical process control (SPC), and Design for Reliability (DfR).
- ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) or equivalent certification.
- Experience supporting multiple manufacturing facilities or global operations.
- Knowledge of supplier quality and manufacturing validation activities.
- Manufacturing Reliability
- Root Cause Analysis
- Risk Management
- Statistical Analysis
- Process Improvement
- Failure Analysis
- Quality Systems
- Cross-Functional Leadership
- Technical Problem Solving
- Continuous Improvement
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Mounds View, MN |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $60 |
| Company Size | 2,000 to 2,499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | http://www.lancesoft.com/ |
About Company
We are a $125 Million, NMSDC-certified Minority & Woman owned Workforce Solutions Company headquartered in the DC metro area with presence across US with global presence - Canada, Mexico, India, UK, Malaysia, Indonasia, Hongkong, Singapore, UAE. We are specialized in providing Workforce Solutions, SOW project delivery, Engineering Solutions, Creative Services. We currently support 100+ Fortune companies globally and across multiple industry segments. We are currently supporting several massive programs across industry segment nationally/globally (Intel, Ally, AMD, QUALCOMM, Morgan Stanley, Kraft/ Mondelez, MNP, Amdocs, Dell, SanDisk, Medtronic, Becton Dickinson, GE, Lockheed Martin, UTC, L-3 Communications, Caterpillar, BMW, Mercedes Benz, National Grid, Dominion, Energy Future Holdings, PSEG, 3M, Fidelity, Aetna, Humana, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck etc).
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
Skills
- Aerospace and Defenseunmatched
- American Society for Quality (ASQ)unmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Biomedical Engineeringunmatched
- Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Corrective Actionunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Data Analysisunmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Engineeringunmatched
- Establish Prioritiesunmatched
- Experiment Designunmatched
- FDA (Food and Drug Administration)unmatched
- Failure Analysisunmatched
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)unmatched
- GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)unmatched
- ISO (International Organization for Standardization)unmatched
- Industrial Engineeringunmatched
- International Operationsunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Analysisunmatched
- Manufacturing Engineeringunmatched
- Manufacturing Operationsunmatched
- Manufacturing/Industrial Processesunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Medical Equipmentunmatched
- Minitabunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Performance Analysisunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Performance Metricsunmatched
- Predictive Modelingunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Analysisunmatched
- Process Capabilityunmatched
- Process Control Engineeringunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Product/Service Launchunmatched
- Production Supportunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Quality Engineeringunmatched
- Quality System Requirements (QSR)unmatched
- Regulationsunmatched
- Reliability Analysisunmatched
- Reliability Engineeringunmatched
- Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
- Risk Analysisunmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- Statistical Process Controlunmatched
- Statisticsunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Technical Presentationunmatched
- Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
- Trend Analysisunmatched
- United States Department of Energy (DOE)unmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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