Reliability Engineering Manager - Quality & Risk Leader

Divergent; New Mexico; On-site; USD 150,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

Divergent is seeking a Manager, Product Reliability Engineering to lead a team of engineers focused on reliability, validation, and risk management for our advanced systems. This role partners with design, manufacturing, and quality teams to translate customer needs into actionable quality objectives and drive structured problem-solving across programs.

You will guide engineers, set priorities, and drive best practices in reliability engineering, risk management, and process improvement while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in product reliability, quality, manufacturing, design, systems, or test/validation engineering.
• 1+ years of experience leading projects, initiatives, or direct management of engineers.
• Experience solving complex cross-functional engineering problems using structured methodologies.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of product reliability engineers, fostering strong technical execution and accountability.
• Provide day-to-day guidance, prioritization, and performance management for the team.
• Support hiring and onboarding engineers as the team scales.
• Reinforce best practices in reliability engineering, risk management, and problem-solving.
• Act as the primary reliability partner to Program Management and IPTs at the program level.
• Collaborate with design, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure alignment between requirements, design intent, and production capability.
• Support interpretation of customer and regulatory requirements and ensure they are translated into clear, verifiable product quality objectives.
• Escalate risks, tradeoffs, and constraints to senior leadership as needed.
• Own execution of APQP deliverables, including FMEA, control plans, and validation activities.
• Ensure product and process risks are identified, documented, and actively managed within programs.
• Track and report on reliability metrics, risks, and readiness at the program level.
• Lead structured root cause investigations and corrective action efforts for product and process failures.
• Facilitate cross-functional issue resolution and nonconformance reviews.
• Drive accountability for containment, corrective actions, and verification of effectiveness.

Skills

Team leadership

Program management

Reliability engineering

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor in engineering

Tools

Jira

PowerBI

SQL

NX/Teamcenter

Job description

Divergent is seeking a Manager, Product Reliability Engineering to lead a team of engineers focused on reliability, validation, and risk management for our advanced systems. This role partners with design, manufacturing, and quality teams to translate customer needs into actionable quality objectives and drive structured problem-solving across programs.

You will guide engineers, set priorities, and drive best practices in reliability engineering, risk management, and process improvement while