Senior Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Internally known as the Head of Reliability for Danfoss Turbocor Compressors (DTC), this expansion role will be pivotal in shaping and implementing a comprehensive reliability growth strategy that drives business success. This position involves developing and deploying innovative reliability processes and methodologies, ensuring that products not only meet but exceed industry standards. The Head of Reliability will lead initiatives in new product development and various engineering practices, focusing on minimizing field failures and enhancing R&D quality processes. By actively reducing warranty costs and effectively managing customer reliability crises, this role is essential in fostering trust and satisfaction among our customers, ultimately contributing to the long-term success of Danfoss Turbocor Compressors.  This is an onsite position at our facility in Tallahassee, Florida with the opportunity for limited domestic and international travel.

Job Responsibilities

Essential Functions, Key Tasks, & Responsibilities: 
• Develop reliability processes/methods and lead the reliability efforts in product development and engineering activities
    - Establish reliability goals and plans 
    - Lead reliability engineering efforts with project teams to support design for reliability, validation, and qualification of product reliability
    - Facilitate cross-functional risk assessments (e.g. DFMEA) in the product life cycle (from design, and  development to product continuous improvements)
    - Carry out or oversight endurance tests 
    - Deploy the Reliability Growth Analysis method (reliability level validation during product development)
    - Monitoring reliability performance in new products in the stage of M5-M6 to ensure early trends of reliability issues are  being addressed
• Work closely with the DTC Quality System and Utilize the issue tracking databases to monitor the product reliability performance. Build the plan to reduce the field defects by leading multi-department workshops (Quality, R&D, Applications, Sales, and Operation), follow-up meetings, and brainstorming, to reinforce product reliability
    - Develop quality and reliability data analysis methods and tools
    - Identify early trends of reliability/quality issues by closely monitoring quality/reliability data
    - Actively lead/participate in investigations on reliability issues
    - Promote knowledge-sharing on reliability issues within the various departments
• Help solve reliability problems
    - Analyze risks: statistical studies using statistical tools and database
    - Coordinate internal players in the event of a reliability crisis to resolve the problem quickly and efficiently
    - Monitor ongoing actions of reliability issues and ensure their resolution
• Reliability Benchmarking
    - Benchmark DTC legacy products and industrial equivalent product reliability performance
    - Define reliability benchmarking requirement 
• Evaluate necessary provisions with Finance, Quality, and the DTC leadership team in the event of a customer compensation requests and follow-up on compensation agreements
• Communicate reliability-related topics to customers under the direction of the DTC leadership team
• Understand and comply with quality policy, procedures, and instructions to ensure product quality, customer satisfaction, attainment of business goal,s and environmental well-being
• Other duties as assigned

Background & Skills

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

Education and/or Experience

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in engineering, industrial, software, physics or equivalent
• Minimum of 10 years industry experiences in Reliability, Quality, or R&D
• Knowledgeable in advanced reliability tools such as Reliability Prediction, Reliability Diagram, FMEA, Fault Tree, Weibull, HALT and ALT test methodologies, FRACAS (Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System), and 8D problem solving.
• Hand-on experience with a pragmatic approach working with cross-functional teams

 

Preferred Qualifications: (Education, Skills, Experience, and/or Languages that are nice to have but not required):

Experiences in highly mechanical-electro