Sr. Reliability Engineer

Job Title

Sr. Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Effective Tuesday, January 4, 2022, all U.S.-based employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID as a condition of employment at Philips*. Employees may request a reasonable accommodation. *Montana employees are currently excluded from this requirement at this time.

If you are a Colorado resident and this role is a field-based or remote role, you may be eligible to receive additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role, which we will provide upon request. You may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.

Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.

But it's not just what we do, it's who we are. We are 80,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common: An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers' needs. It's what inspires us to create meaningful solutions - the kind that make a real difference - when it matters most.

The world and our customers' needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more. That's why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.

In this role, you have the opportunity to make life better

Looking at the challenges the world is facing today Philips' purpose has never been more relevant. So, whatever your role, if you share our passion for helping others, you'll be working towards creating a better and fairer future for all.

The Senior Reliability Engineer will play a critical role in driving medical product reliability, safety and compliance through oversight of device quality, and risk management throughout the product life cycle for Philips Sleep & Respiratory Care products.

You are responsible for

• Work with product engineering to develop reliability requirements, establish a reliability plan and perform appropriate analyses to ensure that new products meet all of the requirements.
• Work with the project teams to develop a reliability plan to document tasks, methods, tools, tests and analyses that are required for the success of new products.
• Assist engineering teams to achieve warranty reduction and improve customer satisfaction by leading quality efforts on problem identification, failure root cause analysis, corrective action development and resolution verification.
• May participate and/or conduct training and workshops on quality and reliability engineering, robustness, and statistics as necessary within product engineering.
• Participate in product design and reliability reviews during new product development to ensure robustness of product design and manufacturing processes.
• Perform statistical data analysis, regression modeling, Weibull Analysis, hazard analysis, reliability growth assessment and prediction, target setting, warranty trend analysis and spending forecast for new products.
• Perform Design FMEAs on all new products and recommend design changes to improve product reliability.
• Work with Manufacturing to evaluate and qualify new technology and new processes implemented in manufacturing.
• Conduct reliability testing on new and existing products. Highly Accelerated Life Testing and Highly Accelerated Stress Testing to identify product failure modes. Validate and track product requirements through development.
• Participate in preparing schedules and work estimates for all project assignments and activities.
• Provide technical feedback to enhance the on-going quality of products and services.

You are part of

Sleep & Respiratory Care Business Group, a business group of Philips HealthTech. We are highly dynamic, ambitious, and agile within a fast-changing industry. Our vision is to work together with our clinical and consumer customers to transform the personalized healthcare market to meet the significant demands caused by the increase of chronic conditions and an aging society. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for consumers and patients through better awareness, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and management of their conditions. This position reports directly to the Head of Quality Engineering for SRC.

To succeed in this role, you'll need a customer-first attitude and the following

• B.S. in a technical field, Electrical, Mechanical, Bioengineering, Software Engineering etc. Masters degree preferred.
• Electrical and software development experience is preferred
• Expertise with Design Quality, Reliability and Safety/Compliance is a must.
• ASQ certifications (CQE, CRE, CMQ/OE etc) Preferred.
• Strong understanding of medical device industry regulatory requirements including but not limited to MDSAP participating countries, ISO Standards (ISO 13485 and ISO 14971), EUMDR, IEC 62304, IEC 60601, IEC 62366.
• Excellent organizational skills to lead and track deliverables
• Certified Reliability Engineer - Preferred
• Six Sigma GB/BB - Preferred
• 4+ years of experience in design quality, quality engineering, or reliability

In return, we offer you

A path towards your most rewarding career. Philips is growing its marketing capability enterprise wide. Succeeding in this global role in a complex environment will open many doors for your long-term career, in other areas in Philips or otherwise. We also believe that we are at our best as a company when you are at yours as a person. Thus, we offer competitive health benefits, a flexible work schedule and access to local well-being focused activities. Furthermore, Philips University is available to all employees for learning and development opportunities.

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It's a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.

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