Shure is seeking to improve product quality and reliability by developing and maintaining robust reliability tests and procedures, optimizing test equipment, and ensuring tests correlate with real-world usage and customer expectations.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Reliability Engineer, with good knowledge of industry practices, using reliability tools, such as, Weibull Analysis, Life data analysis, Accelerated Life testing (ALT), Mean Time between Failure (MTBF) and process capability studies.
- As well as Quality tools, such as, root cause analysis (8 Discipline (8D), Define Measure Analyze Improve Control (DMAIC), Plan Do Check Act (PDCA)), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Design of Experiments (DOE), Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (GR&R)
- Three to five years of experience in the basic use of audio, acoustical, and RF principles.
- Significant experience in using MS Excel, ReliaSoft and Minitab to store, process, analyze, and report data.
- Strong knowledge of working with other Microsoft office products is also required.
- Very strong data analysis skills.
- Ability to detect changes and trends and determine their importance.
Responsibilities
- Develop, implement, and maintain reliability tests and procedures.
- Identify and evaluate new lab equipment capabilities, recommend suitable equipment and manufacturers, and provide financial justifications for acquisitions.
- Understand, document, and articulate the correlation between reliability tests and customer use cases and product life expectancy.
- Conduct correlation studies on reliability tests to ensure that the relationship between tests and actual field use are well-understood.
- Conduct studies to ensure that tests are repeatable and reproducible in all test lab locations.
- Review customer service data to understand field product performance and identify product reliability testing enhancements as well as influence product design improvements.
- Assist in developing comprehensive product (and Component level) test plans to meet Shure Quality standards and provide insightful risk assessments from a reliability perspective on testing results.
Other
- Hybrid based out of our Niles, IL HQ!
- Collaborate with and mentor Quality Engineers and Lab Technicians, advising on product reliability and test plan development.
- Interact with customer feedback avenues outside and within Shure such as Service Dept., Product Applications, and Global Product Marketing to understand field failure issues and trends.
- Provide training, guidance, and support on using reliability principles and procedures within and outside the Quality division.
- Team player and Self-motivated
