Manager Reliability Laboratory

Job Summary

Job Description

• Responsible for managing all aspects of the Reliability Laboratory by providing direction, guidance and support for all direct and indirect reports.
• Responsible for the management of all reliability improvement efforts.
• Responsible for the productivity, engagement and overall effectiveness of the reliability improvement team.
• Responsible for the allocation of functional resources to meet project schedules.
• Responsible for exerting influence on development projects to ensure product reliability is a key consideration in development.
• Identify opportunities for reliability improvement in current products, and work within the product commercialization process to realize these improvements in successive generations of designs.
• Develops and implements ongoing reliability monitoring methods to meet customer requirements for long life failure rates.  Provide trend analysis on critical to reliability parameters.
• Develops and implements qualification plans and methods to meet customer requirements for long life failure rates.
• Schedules, coordinates and executes said qualification plans and methods in accordance with agreed time frames.
• Monitor new product reliability growth/demonstration activities against targets, to ensure sufficient progress toward those targets is being achieved.
• Working in a team environment, resolve reliability problems that result in excessive in-house or customer failure rates
• Provide guidance to internal groups and interface with customers regarding reliability questions or concerns.

• Monitors reliability metrics and goals to drive quality improvement efforts.
• Distributes reports that track product and/or process reliability performance to internal groups and to customers
• Make recommendations for test, burn-in screening and life test capital equipment acquisition
• Provides acceleration tests results based on physics and best fit reliability models.
• Analyze field  performance  MTTF,FIT , Survival 2,5,10 yr  data based on Weibull and Weibayse models

Education / Qualifications

• 10+ years’ relevant experience. 
• Bachelor's degree in related field, e.g. BSEE, Physics, or Materials Science. MS preferred
• Familiarity with power conversion theory including AC/DC and DC/DC preferred.
• Certified as a CRE preferred.
• Experience providing direction to cross-functional teams.
• 5 -10 years experience in a management role in a fast paced environment.
• Expert knowledge of MILHDK217 and Telcordia Reliability Prediction Calculations
• Expert knowledge in many aspects of the physics of failure of PCBs, and/or electronic components
• Strong knowledge of electronic circuits, components, PCBs and manufacturing processes
• Strong knowledge of state-of-the-art reliability assessment methods and techniques
• Ability to lead a team and coordinate resources to meet customer responsiveness metrics
• Ability to accomplish tasks through influencing others.
• Experience with FMEA, Design of Experiments
• Detailed knowledge of statistical quality control parameters and characterization of yield changes in anticipated product lifetime and quality reliability outcomes
• Ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of internal and external customers and/or suppliers
• Ability to use some or all of the following PC applications: MS Office, MS Project, MS Vision, MiniTab, JMP,  in generating reports, capturing data, and presenting data and information in an understandable format