Product Reliability Engineer

Product Reliability Engineer

To provide Reliability and Test Engineering support to NPI, Development, forward and reverse logistics, and testing of telecom related product ranges, to ensure production targets are met to agree timing, efficiency, cost and quality requirements are achieved. Responsible for determining most effective ways to test a product or service. Develops ways to increase productivity, maximize efficiency, and manage human and equipment capital more effectively. The ideal candidate will have a strong background working with technical customer liaisons, New Product Introductions, Quality, Six Sigma, Quality Systems, Statistical Process Control as well as production management, operations managers, and operators in a telecom production environment. The candidate will have experience with both hardware and software testing and integration methodologies and will be involved in verifying / certifying all aspects of a telecom-grade, fault-tolerant, highly available, hardware and software solution.

Key Responsibilities

Essential Functions :

• Works with project engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified consumer products. The role is responsible for adhering to the life cycle asset management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets.
• Participates in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning plans. Participates in the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment and technical suppliers and technical maintenance service providers. Develops acceptance tests and inspection criteria.
• Participates in the final check-out of new installations. This includes factory and site acceptance testing that will assure adherence to functional specifications.
• Guides efforts to ensure product reliability and maintainability of telecom equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls.
• Professionally and systematically defines, designs, develops, monitors and refines an asset maintenance plan that includes :
• Value-added preventive maintenance tasks
• Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems. (Functional, RF, xRF, CPI, Water Testing)
• Effective utilization / development of destructive testing solutions. (tear down, drop test, submersion, tumble, others)
• Provides input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability-related and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations.
• Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failure and all other problems that adversely affect plan operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues, utilizing Six Sigma methodology (SPC, RCA, CPK etc).
• Works with Production to perform analyses of assets including :
• Asset utilization
• Overall equipment effectiveness
• Remaining useful life
• Other parameters that define operating condition, reliability and costs of assets
• Provides technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel.
• Applies value analysis to repair / replace, repair / redesign and make / buy decisions.

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About Group O

At Group O, it's our employees who we value most. That's why we provide a supportive environment where employees are given every opportunity to excel. Group O offers a wide variety of careers with room for professional growth and advancement, and we are always looking for motivated individuals to join our team. At Group O, our employees' health and well-being is equally as important as the work they perform. We back up that philosophy by providing a competitive benefits package that supports now and for their future.

In 1974, Bob Ontiveros saw an opportunity to live the American dream and build a company for himself and his family. 50 years later, the packaging company he originally founded out of the back of his station wagon - Group O is ranked by the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce as one of the top five Latino-owned businesses in the country. Group O has gained prestige for helping Fortune 500 companies like Samsung, Michelin, Caterpillar, and PepsiCo turn their most complex business challenges into centers of profitability and efficiency. Headquartered in Milan, IL, Group O employs over 1,200 employees.

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