Reliability Lab Manager — Lead Testing & Innovation

Molex; Rochester Hills (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Molex seeks a Reliability Lab Manager to lead the strategic direction and operational excellence of its Reliability Laboratory in Rochester Hills, Michigan. You will lead engineers, supervisors, and technicians responsible for reliability, environmental, mechanical, and electrical testing supporting product qualification and customer success.

As a key partner to Product Development, Quality, Manufacturing, and Customer teams, you will drive data-driven insights that improve product performance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline.
• Seven or more years of experience in reliability engineering, validation, testing, laboratory operations, or product qualification environments for automotive products.
• Three or more years of experience leading technical teams, including supervisors and direct reports.
• Experience managing projects, budgets, or cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience supporting reliability engineering activities, environmental testing, accelerated life testing, or failure analysis.
• Experience supporting automotive, industrial, electronics, connector, or interconnect product qualification activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop laboratory engineers, supervisors, and technicians to build a high-performing, contribution-motivated team
• Drive a culture of safety, accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and technical excellence
• Provide strategic direction for laboratory operations, resource planning, test scheduling, and capability development
• Manage laboratory performance through key metrics related to safety, quality, delivery, utilization, and financial results
• Ensure efficient execution of reliability, environmental, vibration, shock, thermal, humidity, mechanical, and life testing activities
• Support product qualification, design validation, customer investigations, and failure analysis initiatives
• Provide technical leadership related to reliability engineering, and accelerated testing
• Lead root cause investigations and corrective action efforts associated with reliability concerns and test failures
• Develop and execute laboratory strategy, capital investment plans, and long-term capability roadmaps
• Evaluate emerging technologies and testing methodologies to improve laboratory effectiveness and value creation
• Collaborate with global laboratory teams to align equipment, processes, testing methods, and best practices
• Support business growth through capacity planning, forecasting, and technical capability expansion
• Ensure compliance with quality systems, customer requirements, ISO standards, and laboratory procedures
• Promote Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) excellence and support audit and continuous improvement activities

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Reliability engineering

Environmental testing

Failure analysis

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical discipline

Job description

Molex seeks a Reliability Lab Manager to lead the strategic direction and operational excellence of its Reliability Laboratory in Rochester Hills, Michigan. You will lead engineers, supervisors, and technicians responsible for reliability, environmental, mechanical, and electrical testing supporting product qualification and customer success.

As a key partner to Product Development, Quality, Manufacturing, and Customer teams, you will drive data-driven insights that improve product performance