Reliability Engineer (1945)

Are you looking for an opportunity with plenty of growth potential? Do you enjoy working in an exciting, fast-paced, collaborative environment? Are you interested in working with the world’s most innovative companies to create a more connected world? 

Connecting Continents. Impacting Communities. 

The backbone of the Internet is a series of high-tech subsea fiber optic cables deployed throughout the globe - SubCom has deployed over 50% of them. Our employees ensure data communications networks are engineered, manufactured, deployed, and maintained to the highest standards, enabling faster and more reliable connectivity to communities worldwide. Every member of the SubCom team plays a role in an end-to-end process that is critical to enterprises, governments, big cities, and rural towns. 

We encourage, expect, and value creativity, thoughtful risk taking, openness to change, and diverse perspectives. Whether you’re a seasoned applicant seeking a new and exciting challenge, or you’re new to the workforce and looking for a flexible, rewarding, and fast-paced position with an innovative and stable organization (since 1953), SubCom has opportunities to advance your career. 

Position Overview 

The candidate requires a strong background in Material Sciences with a depth of knowledge and experience in polymers.  Responsibilities include providing reliability oversight of Design and Manufacturing activities including conducting technical risk assessments early in the design process, reviewing Qualification Test Plans and Qualification Test Reports in the development and validation phases, and reviewing the ability of manufacturing to meet the product design intent and providing the final Qualification Approval of release of new designs to manufacturing.  The role will also provide supplier oversight, disposition of Supplier and Manufacturing non-conformances, and providing Subject Matter Expertise for new product development and Failure Mode Analysis activities. 

Responsibilities 

• Provide reliability support in Core Teams to assure adequate reliability for the product as designed.
• Perform modeling and analysis of failure modes in areas of technical expertise.
• Document reliability group processes, detailed reliability calculations, Qualification Approvals and reliability requirements.
• Develop strategies for selecting suppliers, and qualifying components, subsystems, and processes.
• Manage the interaction with key and strategic suppliers from reliability perspective.
• Develop initiatives to improve functionality, lead time or cost basis while maintaining reliability.
• Consistently ensures that business is always conducted with integrity and that behavior aligns with SubCom policies, procedures, and core values.

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in related field required. Higher level degrees are a plus
• Education and/or experience in Material Science or Material Engineering required
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in related field
• Knowledge of the Physics of Failure of key components in area of technology expertise
• Ability to conduct a Technical Risk Analysis for a Design effort
• Knowledge of the Principles of Reliability Science is not required, but is a plus
• Knowledge of Quality Management Systems, including quality tools and techniques
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Articulates thoughts and ideas clearly, concisely, and persuasively
• Ability to work well in diverse team-based collabora