Senior Reliability Engineer

The Senior Reliability Engineer, works in cross functional teams with designers, customers and manufacturing engineering and project leaders to ensure products designed can meet reliability specifications. Define the reliability testing strategy, reliability test plan and conduct tests. Complete a stress based MTBF analysis of products, thus providing initial reliability predictions.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Lead reliability analysis and work with the design teams to ensure the products designed can meet reliability specification.

• Work with the design team and customers to understand and define reliability requirements of products.

• Conduct design review and close loops with the design team to fix design issues.

• Define the reliability testing strategy, reliability test plan and conduct test.

• Complete a stress based MTBF analysis of the product, thus providing initial reliability predictions.

• Coordinate third-party performance and regulatory testing.

• Train relevant manufacturing partner personnel to conduct the test.

• Perform failure analysis and generate failure reports.

• Design guidelines recommendations based on run to failure testing and stress vs strength analysis

• Actively collaborate with the engineering team and seek opportunities to develop new/improve existing durability test methodology to enhance product development efficiency.

• Hands-on and experienced with FMEA, design for reliability (DFR), DFT and design for manufacturability (DFM) concepts, particularly as they relate to process, property and complex manufacturing systems.

• Familiar with Reliability Block Diagram(RBD), Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), De-rating, reparable and life analysis.

• Familiar with Environmental and reliability testing such as Vibration test, shock test, drop test, storage test, HALT/HASS, acoustic test, RVI test, etc.

• Familiar with reliability data analysis software, e.g. JMP, Minitab, and /or Weibull

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Project management and data analysis skills.

• Able to work independently, self-motivated and well-organized.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.

• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.

• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.

• Occasional travel may be required.

Typical Education

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, electronic or mechanical engineering.

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.