Reliability Engineer

Actalent; Minnesota; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Actalent in Minnesota seeks a Senior Reliability Engineer to lead reliability programs ensuring products meet performance, safety, and regulatory expectations. The role involves cross-functional analyses, root-cause assessment, and recommendations to improve reliability and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities include conducting DOE studies, performing risk analyses, developing reliability models, supporting post-market activities, guiding corrective actions, and driving improvements across

Responsibilities

• Develop, coordinate, and conduct technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts, including the design and execution of Design of Experiments (DOE).
• Recommend design or test methods and statistical process control procedures to achieve required levels of product reliability.
• Complete risk analysis studies for new designs and processes to ensure they meet internal, customer, and regulatory reliability objectives.
• Compile and analyze performance reports and process control statistics to identify and evaluate variables that may affect product and process performance.
• Ensure that corrective and preventive actions meet acceptable reliability standards and are effectively implemented.
• Analyze preliminary plans and develop reliability engineering programs that support company, customer, and governmental agency requirements.
• Develop mathematical models, when appropriate, to identify units, batches, or processes that present excessive failure risks.
• Propose changes in design, formulation, or processes to improve system and process reliability based on analytical findings.
• Determine units and batches that require environmental or other specialized testing and specify the minimum number of samples required to obtain statistically valid data.
• Lead and support complaint trending activities to identify patterns, emerging issues, and opportunities for improvement in ECLS products.
• Perform post-market change assessments to evaluate the reliability and quality impact of design, process, or manufacturing changes.
• Conduct issue investigations, including detailed root cause analysis, and drive resolution plans for post-market and quality-related problems.

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Reliability Engineer Job Description

The Senior Reliability Engineer develops and executes reliability engineering programs that ensure products meet stringent performance, safety, and regulatory expectations. This role leads technical reliability studies, supports post-market activities, and drives continuous improvement across product design and processes, with a particular focus on ECLS products. The engineer works cross-functionally to analyze complex data, identify root causes, and recommend design or process changes that improve product reliability and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Develop, coordinate, and conduct technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts, including the design and execution of Design of Experiments (DOE).
• Recommend design or test methods and statistical process control procedures to achieve required levels of product reliability.
• Complete risk analysis studies for new designs and processes to ensure they meet internal, customer, and regulatory reliability objectives.
• Compile and analyze performance reports and process control statistics to identify and evaluate variables that may affect product and process performance.
• Ensure that corrective and preventive actions meet acceptable reliability standards and are effectively implemented.
• Analyze preliminary plans and develop reliability engineering programs that support company, customer, and governmental agency requirements.
• Develop mathematical models, when appropriate, to identify units, batches, or processes that present excessive failure risks.
• Propose changes in design, formulation, or processes to improve system and process reliability based on analytical findings.
• Determine units and batches that require environmental or other specialized testing and specify the minimum number of samples required to obtain statistically valid data.
• Lead and support complaint trending activities to identify patterns, emerging issues, and opportunities for improvement in ECLS products.
• Perform post-market change assessments to evaluate the reliability and quality impact of design, process, or manufacturing changes.
• Conduct issue investigations, including detailed root cause analysis, and drive resolution plans for post-market and quality-related problems.