Senior Staff Engineer – Product Reliability in Energy Technology | Waukesha, WI

Position: Senior Staff Engineer, Product Reliability (Energy Technology)

Location: Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States
Employment Type: Full-Time
Relocation Assistance: Possible for ideal candidates
Base Salary - USD $132,600 to $212,200

About the Role

Our client is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer specializing in Product Reliability for their Energy Technology products. The role focuses on module-level power electronics (MLPE) and their interaction with energy storage devices. The candidate will drive reliability goals, evaluate designs for reliability, and lead reliability demonstration testing for clean energy products.

This position reports directly to the Engineering Director and plays a critical role in ensuring products meet high standards for performance and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive engineering teams to meet high product performance and reliability standards through Design for Reliability (DfR) reviews and guidance.

• Develop and manage Design Verification and Validation Plans (DVP&Rs) to assess product reliability.

• Understand the operating environment and performance requirements for clean energy products.

• Conduct risk assessments, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA/DFMEA), and participate in design reviews.

• Ensure test plans meet applicable standards (IEC, IEEE, etc.).

• Collaborate with test development and product development teams to ensure thorough functionality coverage during testing.

• Support root cause analysis and resolve issues identified during reliability tests.

• Oversee reliability demonstration tests and report findings to leadership.

• Manage external resources (labs, consultants, etc.) to complete delegated work, including scope management and report generation.

• Mentor and support less experienced engineers.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field.

• Experience: 7–10 years in product reliability or related roles, preferably with exposure to clean energy technology.

• Technical Skills:

• Familiarity with common failure modes of Li-ion batteries in outdoor applications.

• Expertise in accelerating failures through reliability demonstration tests.

• Experience with risk assessments, FMEA/DFMEA, and compliance with standards like IEC and IEEE.

• Soft Skills: Strong analytical abilities, attention to detail, effective communication, and mentoring skills.

Additional Details

• Travel: Occasional travel may be required.

• Security Clearance: Not required.

• Visa Sponsorship: Not available.

Screening Questions

1. Are you familiar with common failure modes of Li-ion batteries in outdoor applications?

2. Can you accelerate these failures through reliability demonstration tests?

This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking team and play a pivotal role in advancing clean energy technology.

Reliability Engineer - Carrollton, GA - $87,300 - $105,000

Reliability Engineer

Carrollton, GA

$87,300 - $105,000

Job Description

The Reliability Engineer champions the implementation of reliability best practices. This role will also evaluate new best-known methods and technologies to continuously improve equipment reliability.

Key aspects of this position include.

·        Working with various plant teams and areas to identify, evaluate, and implement reliability improvement opportunities through changes to operating and maintenance procedures, and equipment upgrades.

·        Analyzing equipment history to identify reliability improvement opportunities.

·        Deploying root cause analysis methods and tools on problems or failures that have resulted in consequential impacts related to machine downtime and / or maintenance expense.

·        Participating in new equipment selection and deployment processes to ensure reliability and maintainability principles are included in the design and implementation activities.

·        Supporting the Autonomous Maintenance process by contributing to the design and selection of operator inspections and tasks to sustain equipment condition and performance.

Promoting the following reliability strategies:

·        Planned corrective maintenance is more effective than reactive maintenance.

·        Time based preventive maintenance is more effective than plan corrective maintenance.

·        Condition based (predictive) maintenance is more effective than time based preventive maintenance.

·        Prevention of maintenance is the best comprehensive maintenance strategy.

·        Participating in audits to measure and validate progression and performance in the reliability journey.

·        Utilizing reliability centered maintenance (RCM) principles to optimize the equipment maintenance strategy.

·        Serving as a subject matter expert of the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) and assist in end user training efforts to ensure master and transactional data integrity and accuracy.

·        Serves as the facility RCA process champion and participates in failure analyses to identify corrective actions to eliminate failure modes or reduce the consequence of failure.

·        Interacts with reliability engineers at other plants to share findings from failure analyses along with solutions to problems identified.

·        Monitors equipment MTTR and MTBF performance to identify reliability improvement opportunities.

·        Examines defects and issues identified during PM and PdM activity and utilizes this information for PM optimization.

·        Participates in new and modified equipment design and installations.

·        Assists in spare part reviews to ensure adequate stocking levels as determined by consumption due to normal wear and failure frequency.

·        Identifies risks of obsolescence and proposes mitigation strategies.

·        Introduces tools and techniques in performing preventive and predictive maintenance activity and prescribes frequency of activity through CMMS maintenance plans.

·        Provides training and support of precision maintenance processes such as alignment and balancing.

·        Develops a world class lubrication program and monitors performance and execution.

·        Supports autonomous activities and provides skills training to operations team members.

·        Drives proactivity performance through supervision of planners and participation in scheduling activities with planners and coordinators.

·        Ensures CMMS users have been trained in system utilization, and audits activity to sustain system integrity.

·        Serves as a SAP PM subject matter expert for the plant.