What is a Reliability Engineer?
A Reliability Engineer for manufacturing companies is responsible for ensuring all products, machines and systems operate most optimally, safely, and at minimal risk. This includes electrical, hardware, software, and systems-level engineering to ensure low downtime, product returns and recalls.
What does a Reliability Engineer typically do?
- Gain deep technical understanding of the companies products, machines and systems to understand various risk assessments
- Use advanced engineering, math and design abilities to assess potential risk issues
- Communicates closely with engineering peers, leaders and other departments regularly
- Uses expert-level Failure Mode and Effects Analysts (FMEA) skills to interpret data and trend reports
Career Track for an Reliability Engineer
A Reliability Engineer will have a Bachelor of Science, Mechanical, Electrical, or Systems Engineering degree from an accredited university. Professionals in this field typically begin as an electrical or mechanical engineer, then specialize into a Reliability Engineer. Once in this career track, the Reliability Engineer will elevate to a Senior Reliability Engineer, Principal and eventually manager or director level. Often, engineers in this field prefer to become a technical subject matter expert within an industry or product niche.
What Makes a Reliability Engineer Successful
- Exceptional ability to understand complex engineering data points and trends
- Strong mathematical and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to interpret results for testing software, reliability tests and and use cycle analysis
- Strong communication abilities to write detailed technical documents for internal and external use
Reliability Engineer Compensation
Reliability Engineer Job Description
Are you seeking to build your career and use your engineering and problem-solving abilities?
Would you like to learn from other brilliant engineers while helping develop advanced military technology?
Konik is partnering with a growing defense engineering company in the south metro area seeking to add an entry-level reliability engineer to their team. In this challenging role, you will partner with various departments to calculate and analyze product reliability and make recommendations based on your analysis.
This is an excellent opportunity for an entry-level candidate to join the organization in a role that offers pathways for career growth in various departments and disciplines. Our client has a flexible, flat structure emphasizing collaboration and teamwork and the ability to work a hybrid work schedule. This is a permanent role set to start on a contract basis for the first six months before converting to a direct company employee.
As a Reliability Engineer, you’ll be trusted to:
- Acquire a strong understanding of company products, goals, and objectives
- Develop, review, and provide supportability analysis related to mean time between failure and mean time to repair
- Partner with various departments to understand contractual documents, technical data, customer maintenance practices, and client requirements to define spare part provisioning requirements and maintenance/repair requirements
- Participate in broader systems engineering processes
- You’ll thrive in an engineering-forward, collaborative team developing high-tech products. You’ll work alongside senior engineers who will challenge you to grow your design, manufacturing, and sustaining engineering skills. If you enjoy learning and contributing to an advanced engineering company, move forward with this position today!
The Reliability Engineer will bring:
- Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering discipline
- Familiarity with data management software, technical writing, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or statistical analysis is beneficial
Must be able to obtain a secret clearance - This client falls under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). As a result, all employees must be U.S, persons within the meaning of ITAR (U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident, Political Asylee, or Refugee)