Reliability Engineering Manager – Quality & Growth

Socket.dev; Wauwatosa (WI); On-site; USD 115,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

Health insurance

401k plan

Onsite fitness center

Employee store

Employee discounts

Job summary

Harley-Davidson Motor Company, based in Milwaukee, WI, is seeking a Manager of Reliability Engineering for the Product Development Center in Wauwatosa. This role leads the reliability quality function, driving strategies to ensure durability and customer satisfaction throughout the product lifecycle.

You will partner with Product Development, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality and Service to implement DFMEA, DV/PV, and data-driven reliability improvements across programs.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of engineering experience with reliability/quality engineering.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving cross-functional problem solving.
• Strong knowledge of reliability engineering principles, DFMEA, DV/PV, statistical analysis, and root cause methodologies.
• Experience utilizing product test, manufacturing, and warranty data to improve product 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 internal and supplier 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

Leadership

DFMEA

DV/PV

Statistical analysis

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree in Engineering / Reliability / Quality

Tools

APQP

AIAG-VDA FMEA

Job description

Harley-Davidson Motor Company, based in Milwaukee, WI, is seeking a Manager of Reliability Engineering for the Product Development Center in Wauwatosa. This role leads the reliability quality function, driving strategies to ensure durability and customer satisfaction throughout the product lifecycle.

You will partner with Product Development, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality and Service to implement DFMEA, DV/PV, and data-driven reliability improvements across programs.