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Job Title: Reliability Engineer | Location: Newport, RI | Full-Time

Description of Work:

PURVIS Systems is seeking Reliability Engineer supporting our U.S. Naval Warfare Center customers, working with project engineers, sponsors, and manufacturers to sustain a comprehensive and innovative reliability program for an auxiliary submarine electronics system.

Responsibilities: 

The Reliability Engineer will:

• Generate updates to system reliability availability and maintainability models (such as predictions, part stress analyses and part de-rating). Create and update Reliability Block Diagrams.
• Work with project leads in identify and implement improvements to collect in-service equipment maintenance and failure data.
• Review and update asset sparing models based on predicted and actual component reliability and obsolescence.
• Evaluate and update performance metrics such as system Operational Availability, component Mean Time Between Failures, and Mean Time To Repair.
• Provide input to the Risk Management Program that will anticipate reliability-related risks that could adversely impact system operation.
• Evaluate and provide inputs to engineering changes that address repetitive failures and other problems that adversely affect system operation.

Qualifications: 

• Experience with performing Reliability, Availability and Maintainability analyses (predictions, part stress analyses and part de-rating, part obsolescence, MTBF, Ao, FMECA, MTTR and Fault Trees)
• Familiarity with reliability tools and processes, such as:
• Statistical Process Control
• Reliability modeling and prediction
• Fault Tree Analysis
• Weibull Tree Analysis
• Root-cause and Root-Cause Failure Analysis
• Failure Modes Effects Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
• Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)
• Ability to interact with technical and non-technical customers to understand technical issues, and develop collaborative solutions.
• Proactive self-starter with strong scientific curiosity, creativity, analytical, problem solving, skills, and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.

BS in a STEM discipline or BA in Mathematics, Computer Science, Chemistry or Physics with 4 years of experience; 2 years of experience with a Master’s Degree is acceptable.

Candidate must have or be able to obtain a government security clearance to the level of SECRET.