Job Description:

Come be DISRUPTIVE with us! At Milwaukee Tool, our most valued resource is our dedicated team of employees - employees who work with a passion to be the best and an unparalleled pride in their work and in the Milwaukee brand. We know that the only way to sustain growth and success is to value the growth and success of each person within the organization that's why we invest in an individual's growth and development from day one.

All our teams touch every step of the process, that is why our engineering teams are some of the key contributors to our continuous innovations. The fast-paced, agile environment continuously delivers disruptive technologies by providing every team with the resources needed to excel and working directly with end users to understand how to deliver heavy duty products with high performance. We create best in class products by leveraging advanced analysis tools, extensive testing regimes, state-of-the-art manufacturing processes and cross-functional agility.

The Battery Systems Reliability Engineer’s primary duties are to utilize engineering skills to contribute to the life cycle of power tool products. The Battery Systems Reliability Engineer will define the test methods and product requirements needed to ensure durable, disruptive, and market-leading products and systems in advanced systems development and mass production portions of product life cycles.

A successful candidate will bring curiosity, accountability, and strong experience in requirements definition, test development, validation, and data acquisition to the Battery Systems team. The candidate enjoys a fast-paced work environment with excellent visibility and opportunities to grow.

Duties and Responsibilities

Product Development

Be a subject matter expert in the Battery Systems team with respect to test methods, product requirements, user needs, and reliability for battery products and systems
Develop critical to quality (CTQ) requirements from collaboration with product management and participation in user needs research
Collaborate with engineering and marketing to ensure product specifications with respect to all aspects of reliability, quality, and user needs are met
Provide internal consultation and support to a wide variety of power tool development teams
Design experimental techniques to improve development and testing efforts
Implement testing best practices within the battery systems team and in other power tool teams
Interact with global suppliers that participate in product development
Track multiple projects simultaneously to ensure adherence to schedule and the Milwaukee Tool process
Familiar with systems requirements frameworks like the V-model and requirements decomposition software (Jama, etc)

Testing and Analysis

Develop test procedures and create test plans to evaluate product performance against user and product requirements
Effectively document test plans, procedures, and best practices for execution in test laboratories
Perform data analysis, post-processing, and visualization of test data
Summarize test results with statistical techniques and present concise, logical, written conclusions
Communicate results, summaries, and implications of test results to a wide variety of stakeholders including technical and non-technical leaders and decision makers
Ensure timely failure reporting and drive root cause analysis and effective corrective/preventative actions (FRACA)
Collaborate with global testing, manufacturing, and engineering teams to identify, evaluate, and resolve testing issues

Job Requirements

Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering
(Reliability, Mechanical, Electrical, or other related disciplines)
5+ years of experience in related reliability and quality field
Strong analytical problem-solving skills and sound statistical application in areas such as design of experiments, sampling techniques, regression, reliability, FMEAs, hypothesis testing, etc.
Hands-on experience with data acquisition systems, data analytics, and related software (e.g. Python, nCode Glyphworks, Dewesoft, LabVIEW)
Experience with life data analysis, reliability distributions, and statistical analysis, and related software (e.g. Minitab, Reliasoft Weibull++)
Experience in troubleshooting, fault detection, failure analysis, and automating tests/measurements and analysis
Strong communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels with creative problem-solving capabilities
Ability to travel 10% (includes both domestic and international)

Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.