Reliability Engineer

• This is a FULL-TIME/DIRECT ROLE FOR ONE OF OUR CLIENTS!
• LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY, PLEASE!
• GREAT BENEFITS!
• REPORT TO C-LEVEL!
• HIGH-VISIBILITY ROLE!

MUSTS:

• MDBF/MTBF calculations or exposure-based failure analysis
• FRACAS ownership
• FAR coordination
• Reliability modeling
• Fleet-defect thresholds and contractual reliability compliance
• Reconciliation of failure data among supplier, OEM and transit authority

Reliability Engineer, Rockville Centre, NY area

Position Summary:

The Reliability Engineer is responsible for driving product reliability performance and maintaining contractual reliability compliance across applicable projects and product lines. This role owns the measurement, analysis, trending, and reporting framework supporting contractual reliability requirements, including FRACAS obligations, failure-trend identification, fleet-defect thresholds, FAR activity, and MTBF/MDBF targets.

The Reliability Engineer serves as the primary owner of reliability data integrity and ensures alignment of failure information between company, customers, and end customers. For programs such as R211, this includes reconciling data between company, Kawasaki, and NYCT so that all parties are evaluating reliability performance using a consistent and measurable data set.

The Reliability Engineer serves as company’s sole source of truth for reliability prediction and performance, ensuring that internal management, customers, and end customers are working from aligned failure data, consistent classifications, and measurable reliability calculations.

While the role supports root-cause investigations, it is not primarily a bench-level failure-analysis position. Instead, the Reliability Engineer leads and coordinates investigations, ensures the appropriate technical expertise is engaged, and uses statistical evidence to measure and validate the effectiveness of corrective actions.

The role also owns company's monthly reliability reporting and prepares the primary reliability data, trends, and analysis reviewed during the monthly Failure Review Board hosted by the Quality Manager with management.

Responsibilities:

Reliability Measurement & Contract Compliance

Failure Data Alignment & Integrity

FRACAS, FAR & Failure Trend Management

Monthly Reliability Reporting & Failure Review Board

Required Skills / Knowledge:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline preferred.
• Equivalent combination of education and relevant rail-industry experience may be considered.

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in reliability engineering, RAM/RAMS, FRACAS management, statistical quality analysis, or a related engineering discipline.
• Experience in rolling stock, rail systems, transportation, or another contract-driven reliability environment strongly preferred.
• Experience working with OEM customers, transit authorities, or complex fleet equipment preferred.
• Experience coordinating technical investigations and corrective-action programs.

Skills:

• Strong statistical-analysis capability, including failure-rate analysis, trend analysis, Weibull methods, and reliability modeling.
• Working knowledge of FRACAS, FAR, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action processes.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to reconcile data from multiple sources and identify discrepancies.
• Ability to translate complex reliability information into clear management and customer reporting.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate effectively across Quality, Engineering, Field Service, RMA, Project Management, and customer organizations.
• High attention to detail with a strong commitment to data integrity and traceability.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and related data-analysis and reporting tools.
• Ability to travel, by own means, to customer sites, rail yards, or other locations as required.