Senior Reliability Engineer

Our next Senior Reliability Engineer will champion the Customer Experience by driving excellent long-term availability, quality, and system performance on our Product Development Division in Nottingham. With a very high attention to detail, you will be protecting our customers' interests in all phases of the development. What you will be doing:

• Assessing and mitigating risks during new product development.
• Perform reliability analysis and verification/validation tests during new product development.
• Inform the product development team of reliability testing failures.
• Working with design, development, process, and manufacturing engineers to assess the risk of a process or design using best practice risk discovery processes.
• Ongoing reliability champion, assessing field and customer utilization patterns to establish engineering responses to customer utilization for launched products.
• Hardware and Robustness Testing .
• Set-up and operate unit-under-test and sophisticated data acquisition systems, test machinery [HALT and Thermal Chambers], post-process data, and report findings to design engineering.
• Establish a multi-site lab network with plans towards test automation, higher efficiency, consistency for end-to-end testing, and increased throughput and speed of results.
• Drive capital projects for lab assets including modernization and new equipment commissioning .
• Create and execute validation tests, working toward test automation, and replicating applications .
• Develop and implement project test plans.
• Participate in regular design reviews.
• Drive creative, hands-on, electrical/firmware solutions for engineering validation.
• Support program level design for reliability activities committed in phase/gate process .
• Working hands-on with Markem-Imaje coders, PC's, Python, C level coding, and HTML type UI's .
• Working hands-on with PLC's, Arduino, and other electrical hardware .
• Working on documenting and standardizing tests, processing, and reporting .
• Providing understandable feedback to electrical, mechanical, and other engineers .
• Support the quality engineer with "lessons learned" process, so that flaws of previous products are corrected in NPI.
  
  Minimum 5 years applied engineering practice and minimum of 3 years' experience practicing reliability or product testing activities- preferably with an understanding of both manual and automated test methods.
• Experience with reliability engineering processes such as ALT, HALT, FMEA, MIL STD book.
• Experience with tools such as Minitab, Reliasoft, test case management tools.
• Experience with requirements review and test case design.
• Experience with system integration.
• Experience with issue management tools e.g. Jira.
• Engineering background with good understanding of testing electro-mechanical systems (embedded software knowledge is a plus.).
• Very high attention to detail and ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Desire to build quality in from inception.
• Engagement with field testing/trials.
Nice to have:
• Experience of change management and leadership
• Desire to support and mentor others.
• Knowledge of reliability principles (and/or applied reliability statistics).
• Excellent communication skills at all levels of the organisation and across functional boundaries with an ability to be able to moderate/gear language to the audience.
• Ability to coordinate test activities inside a project core team - understanding of Work Breakdown Structure techniques desired.
You'll only be the right candidate if you are aligned to our values and culture:
• Collaborative entrepreneurial spirit
• Winning through customers
• High ethical standards, openness and trust
• Expectations for results
• Respect and value people
If you believe you match our values and have the experience we're looking for, then apply! We can't wait to hear from you.

Markem-Imaje is a trusted world manufacturer of product identification and traceability solutions, offering a full range of reliable and innovative inkjet, thermal transfer, laser, print and label application systems. Markem-Imaje delivers fully integrated solutions that enable product quality and safety, regulatory and retailer compliance, better product recalls and improved manufacturing processes.