Reliability Engineering Leader - Product Quality

Harley-Davidson, Inc.; Wauwatosa (WI); On-site; USD 115,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Health insurance

401k program

Onsite fitness centers

Employee stores

Employee discounts

Job summary

Harley-Davidson Motor Company’s Product Development Center (PDC) in Wisconsin seeks a Manager, Reliability Engineering to lead motorcycle reliability within Product Quality. You will define strategies, drive risk reduction, and leverage test, manufacturing, and warranty data to boost field performance.

You will partner with Product Development, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, and Service to drive reliability improvements across development and lifecycle stages.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years in reliability/quality engineering.
• Experience leading cross-functional problem solving.
• Strong knowledge of reliability engineering principles, DFMEA, DV/PV, and statistical analysis.
• Experience utilizing product test, manufacturing, and warranty data to improve reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability engineering activities across new product development, validation, launch, and field performance monitoring.
• Define product reliability requirements, targets, metrics, and validation strategies.
• Drive application of reliability engineering tools including DFMEA, risk assessment, root cause analysis, reliability growth, and statistical methods.
• Ensure connectiveness and consistency from internal and supplier DFMEA, DVP/R’s, and PFMEA’s
• Lead analysis of reliability test results, manufacturing quality data, customer feedback, and warranty performance to identify and mitigate product risks.
• Partner with engineering teams to develop robust validation plans and ensure reliability requirements are achieved prior to production release.
• Implement lessons learned and field performance insights into future product development programs.
• Further develop reliability metrics, dashboards, and reporting for product quality performance.
• Coach, mentor, and develop reliability engineering talent.
• Owns rules and procedures for Functional Safety, planning and coordinating the safety activities, maintaining the safety plan, and conducting confirmation reviews
• Drive continuous improvement of reliability engineering processes, methods, and capabilities.
• Support ISO 9001 quality management requirements and Product Quality objectives.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Quality engineering

Root cause analysis

DFMEA

DV/PV

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Master's Degree in Engineering

Job description

Harley-Davidson Motor Company’s Product Development Center (PDC) in Wisconsin seeks a Manager, Reliability Engineering to lead motorcycle reliability within Product Quality. You will define strategies, drive risk reduction, and leverage test, manufacturing, and warranty data to boost field performance.

You will partner with Product Development, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, and Service to drive reliability improvements across development and lifecycle stages.