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# Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Milwaukee Tool
- **Location:** Milwaukee, WI, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Minitab
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/1_milwaukeetool2-R76319

## About the Role

The Senior Reliability Engineer is a critical member of the New Product Development Team.
This position requires strong cross-functional communication skills and analytical expertise to help launch new, exciting and innovative solutions that meet user needs in a fast-paced environment. **Duties and Responsibilities** **Product Development** + Act as subject matter expert with respect to product reliability, user requirements and warranty information for new product designs and engineering changes + Participate in User Need Research to identify "critical to quality" (CtQ) requirements on mechanical and electrical design features + Support Advanced Engineering activities targeted at CtQ needs + Collaborate with Engineering and Marketing to define the products' specifications with respect to all aspects of reliability, quality and testing + Design experiments and techniques to improve development efforts + Lead Risk Assessments (Design and Manufacturing) for new product development projects during the product development cycle + Interact with US and Asian suppliers that
participate in product development **Testing/Analysis** + Develop test plans and procedures to ensure products meet customer requirements + Ensure test laboratories implement test plans/procedures and best practices + Analyze, draw conclusions, report and present product information utilizing statistical techniques such as Weibull analysis, reliability distributions/matrices and reliability models. + Draw concise, logical, written conclusions from experiments based on data analysis + Ensure timely failure reporting and lead root cause analysis and effective corrective/preventative actions (FRACA) **Job Requirements** + A Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field and 7 years of experience in similar reliability and quality role OR a Master of Science Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field and 5 years of experience in similar reliability and quality role. + Experience
must include: + New product commercialization processes emphasizing design, manufacturing, quality, test and/or reliability activities + Training in quality engineering fundamentals and proven experience leading a primary function within a project team + Design of Experiments, life data analysis, and other related statistical tools and software (i.e.
Minitab, Reliasoft) + Experience with lithium ion battery tools and technology is a plus + Ability to travel up to 25% of the time (includes both domestic and international) _Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer._