Process Reliability Manager Jobs in High Point, NC

Hardware Reliability Engineer III
Gilbarco Veeder-Root is seeking a senior Hardware Reliability Engineer III to support the design, validation, launch, and field performance of complex electromechanical products used in critical fueling and convenience retail environments.
Job Summary
The Hardware Reliability Engineer III will lead reliability engineering activities for hardware used in fueling and convenience retail equipment. This role owns reliability planning and deliverables for complex programs, drives design-for-reliability practices, and partners closely with design, test, manufacturing, quality, and field service teams to improve durability, serviceability, and long-term product performance.
Essential Duties
    Lead reliability planning, reviews, and deliverables for complex or multi-program hardware efforts from concept through production and field support.
    Develop and own program Reliability Program Plans, reliability goals, risk assessments, and milestone reporting for assigned products and subsystems.
    Drive Design for Reliability practices, including reliability requirements flow-down, reliability growth planning, and validation strategy development.
    Facilitate hardware, software, process, and design FMEA sessions and ensure actions are tracked through closure.
    Perform and guide root cause analysis, teardown analysis, and failure investigations for issues discovered in development, qualification, manufacturing, or the field.
    Develop and execute reliability, environmental, and accelerated life test strategies in collaboration with design and test teams.
    Analyze field returns, complaint trends, warranty data, and service history to identify recurring failure modes and recommend corrective actions.
    Lead cross-functional issue resolution with design engineering, manufacturing quality, supplier quality, test labs, and service organizations.
    Apply statistical methods and life data analysis to evaluate reliability risk, support predictions, and confirm validation results.
    Own reliability deliverables through development and production milestones, ensuring technical documentation is clear, complete, and timely.
    Mentor junior engineers and contribute to reliability process improvement, lessons learned, and knowledge sharing across the organization.
    Support continuous improvement in reliability methods, lab practices, test methods, and product robustness across the product lifecycle.
 

Minimum Qualifications
    Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field.
    8 or more years of relevant experience in hardware engineering, reliability engineering, validation, test engineering, quality engineering, or a related function.
    Demonstrated experience with complex electromechanical products, industrial equipment, outdoor electronic systems, or similar hardware platforms.
    Strong working knowledge of reliability engineering methods, including failure analysis, root cause analysis, test planning, and corrective action support.
    Experience leading FMEA activities and driving reliability risk reduction actions across design and process functions.
    Ability to analyze technical data, interpret drawings and schematics, and communicate findings clearly to engineering and non-engineering audiences.
    Experience partnering across engineering, quality, manufacturing, supplier, and field support organizations.
    Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, lead cross-functional discussions, and influence decisions without direct authority.
    Experience with Design for Reliability tools and field trial planning for cost out and VAVE projects.
    Strong written and verbal communication skills and a record of delivering concise technical documentation and recommendations.
Preferred Qualifications
    Experience in fuel dispensing, retail fueling, payment hardware, industrial controls, or outdoor electronic equipment environments.
    Hands-on experience with reliability tools and methods such as Weibull analysis, FRACAS, reliability growth, accelerated testing, and statistical analysis.
    Experience with software tools such as Weibull , Minitab, JMP, RGA, or similar reliability/statistical packages.
    Knowledge of accelerated life testing, environmental stress testing, product qualification, and reliability validation planning.
    Experience with hardware failure analysis techniques such as optical microscopy, X-ray, cross-sectioning, SEM, CSAM, and EDX.
    Familiarity with warranty analysis, field issue management, and lifecycle reliability metrics.
    Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical workstreams in a senior individual contributor capacity.
    Professional certification such as ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer, Certified Quality Engineer, or similar is a plus.
 

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