Staff Reliability Engineer - Electrical Systems - Hybrid

Auto req ID: 22787 
Title: Staff Reliability Engineer - Electrical Systems - Hybrid 
Job Function: Engineering 
Location: PDC 
Company: Harley-Davidson Motor Company 
Full or Part-Time: Full Time 
Shift: SHIFT1 

 

At Harley-Davidson, we are building more than machines. It’s our passion and commitment to continue the evolution of this storied brand, and heighten the desirability of the Harley-Davidson experience. To keep building our legend and leading our industry through innovation, evolution, and emotion we need the best and brightest talent. We stand for the timeless pursuit of adventure. Freedom for the soul. Are you ready to join us?

 

The Harley-Davidson Motor Company Product Development Center (PDC) located in Wauwatosa, WI is home to the mantra – You dream it. We build it. Join our team as a  Staff Reliability Engineer - Electrical Systems - Hybrid.

Job Summary

 

The Staff Reliability Engineer demonstrates specialized skill ensuring that reliability targets are achievable through the proposed designs. This position influences product development by offering expert guidance to ensure that high-risk items are being mitigated by the design teams. The Staff Reliability Engineer demonstrates expertise in technical reliability, field analysis, goal setting, and test planning and execution. 
 

Job Responsibilities

 

• Demonstrates expertise in technical reliability, field analysis and requirements development including Functional Safety
• Establish robust durability, reliability and warranty targets through analysis and application of customer usage data
• Work interactively with the Program Manager and other stakeholders to ensure alignment between the Analysis & Test Plans and program critical path. 
• Owns risk reduction through application of Risk Discovery, DFMEA and DVP&R 
• Provides expert guidance to ensure that high-risk items are being mitigated by the design teams
• Develop Electrical System/Vehicle Level test plans including Functional Safety
• Manage execution of the Electrical System/Vehicle Level test plans and verification of results
• Manage and maintain visibility to leading metric tracking progress/exceptions to prioritized Analysis & Test Plan
• Verifies system performance to H-D standards, approves supplier validation, and works with test and verification entities to ensure Electrical system meets or exceeds targets
• Resolves technical issues by applying problem solving techniques and facilitating cross-functional engineering & test support as needed

Education Requirements

Bachelor's Degree Required

Education Specifications

 

This position requires a bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering.
Master’s degree preferred.

Experience Requirements

 

The successful candidate will have a minimum of 8 years of related experience. In addition, they will have demonstrated the following:

• Ability to lead and influence cross-functional team members without direct authority.
• Success in directly or indirectly leading a team or supplier to meet aggressive quality and performance objectives.
• Technical product development reliability/quality experience with electro-mechanical devices.
• Knowledge of Electrical component design, manufacturing, and assembly
• Ability to communicate technical subjects in a clear, concise manner to multiple levels of the organization.  
• Success in solving challenging technical problems in a team environment.
• Exposure to and strong understanding of good development practices (requirements captures, test case generation, traceability, etc).
• Experience with requirements capture tools (such as DOORS, JAMA or Helix ALM).
• Ability to lead and champion testing practices for root cause analysis efforts in both the development and production environments.
• Success in leading teams through the application of the Design Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (DFMEA) tool in a product development environment.
• Expertise in managing Product Verification & Validation Test planning and execution at component, system, and vehicle levels using a variety of methodologies including HIL, bench, and vehicle.
• Ability to work with diverse global teams both internally and externally (suppliers).

 

Experience Preferred:

• Experience with xFMEA tool for FMEA management
• ISO26262 certified
• Experience in task and project management with JIRA

 

Harley-Davidson is an equal opportunity employer that continues to build a culture of inclusion, belonging and equity through our commitment to attracting and retaining diverse talent from all backgrounds, without r