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Sr. Reliability Engineer

Milwaukee Tool · Milwaukee, WI · Full time

Posted Aug 19, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a time you had to communicate a reliability risk to a cross-functional team.

What they are checking: Whether they can communicate risk clearly across functions, which the posting names as a key requirement.

Tell me about a failure analysis you led. How did you confirm the root cause?

What they are checking: Whether they prove a root cause with evidence before committing the team to an expensive fix.

How do you mentor less experienced reliability engineers?

What they are checking: Whether they help grow less experienced reliability engineers rather than keeping expertise to themselves.

What would you do

As a member of the New Product Development team, how would you shape a power tool's design to be reliable from the start?

What they are checking: Influencing design early instead of only testing at the end.

A competitor's tool lasts longer in your tests. How would you figure out why?

What they are checking: Whether they use benchmarking and teardown to learn concrete design lessons from competitor products.

The team wants to launch, but your data shows a moderate risk. What do you do?

What they are checking: Clear risk framing and options rather than a flat block.

About the work

Walk me through how you would qualify a new power tool for launch.

What they are checking: A complete qualification plan with life, environmental and abuse testing.

How do you use Weibull or other life data analysis to predict field reliability?

What they are checking: Whether they can apply life data analysis to predict field reliability and support real product decisions.

How do you decide which failure modes to test for first?

What they are checking: Whether they prioritize testing by real risk, using tools like DFMEA and data from the field.

How do you design an accelerated test that does not create failures users would never see?

What they are checking: Whether they understand the limits of acceleration so tests do not create failures users would never see.

What reliability metrics do you think matter most for a power tool?

What they are checking: Whether they pick reliability metrics that reflect what users actually experience with their tools.

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The full job description

As published by Milwaukee Tool.

Job Description: Job Description Come be DISRUPTIVE with us! At Milwaukee Tool, our most valued resource is our dedicated team of employees - employees who work with a passion to be the best and an unparalleled pride in their work and in the Milwaukee brand. We know that the only way to sustain growth and success is to value the growth and success of each person within the organization that's why we invest in an individual's growth and development from day one. All our teams touch every step of the process, that is why our Engineering teams are some of the key contributors to our continuous innovations. The fast-paced, agile environment continuously delivers disruptive technologies by providing every team with the resources needed to excel and working directly with End Users to understand how to deliver heavy duty products with high performance. We create Best in Class products by leveraging advanced analysis tools, extensive testing regimes, state-of-the-art manufacturing processes and cross-functional agility. The Senior Reliability Engineer's primary duties are to utilize advanced level engineering skills to contribute to the development and qualification of power tool products. The Senior Reliability Engineer is a critical member of the New Product Development Team. This position requires strong cross-functional communication skills and analytical expertise to help launch new, exciting and innovative solutions that meet user needs in a fast-paced environment. Duties and Responsibilities Product Development • Act as subject matter expert with respect to product reliability, user requirements and warranty information for new product designs and engineering changes • Participate in User Need Research to identify “critical to quality” (CtQ) requirements on mechanical and electrical design features • Support Advanced Engineering activities targeted at CtQ needs • Collaborate with Engineering and Marketing to define the products' specifications with respect to all aspects of reliability, quality and testing • Design experiments and techniques to improve development efforts • Lead Risk Assessments (Design and Manufacturing) for new product development projects during the product development cycle • Interact with US and Asian suppliers that participate in product development Testing/Analysis • Develop test plans and procedures to ensure products meet customer requirements • Ensure test laboratories implement test plans/procedures and best practices • Analyze, draw conclusions, report and present product information utilizing statistical techniques such as Weibull analysis, reliability distributions/matrices and reliability models. • Draw concise, logical, written conclusions from experiments based on data analysis • Ensure timely failure reporting and lead root cause analysis and effective corrective/preventative actions (FRACA) Job Requirements • A Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field and 7 years of experience in similar reliability and quality role OR a Master of Science Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field and 5 years of experience in similar reliability and quality role. • Experience must include: • New product commercialization processes emphasizing design, manufacturing, quality, test and/or reliability activities • Training in quality engineering fundamentals and proven experience leading a primary function within a project team • Design of Experiments, life data analysis, and other related statistical tools and software (i.e. Minitab, Reliasoft) • Experience with lithium ion battery tools and technology is a plus • Ability to travel up to 25% of the time (includes both domestic and international) Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.

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