Reliability Engineer (Aerospace Manufacturing)

About the position

Acara Solutions, one of the country's largest aerospace staffing services firms, is helping our national aerospace manufacturing client in Burbank, CA find a Reliability Engineer (II, III or IV) to join their organization as a salaried direct employee. For Engineer III the salary range is up to $146K plus bonus. A higher salary for level IV candidates. This is a hybrid position allowing 2 days per week from home if desired. Candidates have to have strong commercial aerospace safety and reliability engineering experience. The Safety & Reliability Engineer will be responsible for performing safety, reliability, and maintainability analyses on new product designs to ensure safety and reliability objectives are met. Participate in engineering design review of products. The overall objective is to ensure customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Generate system safety requirements.
• Perform safety analysis for brake control systems per the industry standards and guidelines (i.e. SAE ARP 4761 and MIL-STD-882E).
• Perform reliability analysis of electronic, electro-mechanical, and mechanical components at assembly and piece part level using HDBK-217Plus and MIL-HDBK-217F methods, and NPRD database.
• Calculate Mean Time between Failure (MTBF) and Mean Time between unscheduled removal (MTBUR) from field data or handbook methods.
• Present reliability, safety, and maintainability analysis results in design reviews (i.e. PDR and CDR).
• Perform maintainability analysis and generate MTTR based on the guidelines provided in MIL-HDBK-470A and MIL-HDBK-472.
• Perform Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis at component and functional level.
• Perform failure rate weighted fault detection and isolation analysis.
• Participate in System, Hardware, and Software design requirements reviews.
• Recommend improvements to safety and reliability based on analysis results.
• Follow internal guidelines and procedures and adhere to configuration management processes for engineering changes and document releases.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering.
• Minimum 5+ years of relevant experience in Safety and Reliability Engineering that includes strong technical writing ability, including the generation of safety, reliability & maintainability analysis documents.
• Experience in products development for aerospace industry.
• Experience in ARP 4754, ARP 4761, MIL-HDBK-217F, HDBK-217Plus, and MIL-STD-882E.
• Knowledge of digital and analog electronic circuit analysis.
• Knowledge of embedded systems safety analysis.
• Knowledge of system and software requirements assessment.
• Knowledge in Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) software program CAFTA.
• Knowledge in Single Event Effects analysis.
• Knowledge of IBM Rational Change and DOORS databases.
• Min 5 years with MS Office, including the ability to Excel formulas in generation of reliability analysis and FMEA source data.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's in Engineering.
• Experience in Safety, Reliability & Maintainability Analysis of commercial and military aircraft systems and components.