Eaton's AER Aerospace Group division is currently seeking a Sr. RMS Engineer. This position will report to the Reliability, Maintainability and Safety (RMS) Team with a focus on driving robust Design for Reliability practices into product development as well as leading certification compliance for all Aerospace programs globally. This is a Hybrid-Remote role, and can be based out of any of Eaton's Aerospace locations within the United States.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $83250.0 - $122100.0 a year. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
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What you'll do:
This position is responsible for leading comprehensive component/system reliability, maintainability and safety programs within the Aerospace Group. Responsibilities include data analysis, performing RMS analyses at a component and system level, providing insight and feedback to internal and external customers, and to support the push for Design for Reliability onto all products.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Support product designs and improvements through qualitative and quantitative analysis
- Conduct RMS engineering analyses at the component level including Reliability Prediction Report, Maintainability Analysis and Failure Modes and Effects (Criticality) Analysis and Design Assurance Level for various types of commercial and military aircraft.
- Support various safety analyses including system level Failure Modes and Effects (Criticality) Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis and Common Mode Analysis for various types of commercial and military aircraft.
- Support a comprehensive risk management process and DfR, such as DFMEA, robustness models (P-diagram), and a program risk management log
- Support PROLaunch/ACES swim lanes for new product development.
- Have a general understanding of reliability estimation methods, such as Reliability Block Diagrams, NPRD, MIL-HDBK-217 and others.
- Support customer in-service product inquiries regarding products. Read and interpret internal, industrial and customer product specifications and make recommendations for enhancements based on engineering analysis and field data.
- Supports reliability and safety analyses for mechanical and electrical components, either individually or through team efforts.
- Basic understanding aerospace safety standards (DO-178C and DO-254A).
- Understand basic state of the practice methods for aircraft certification (ARP4754A and ARP 4761).
- Support Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) process, driving continuous improvement through a statistical problem-solving approach
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor Degree in Engineering from an accredited institution
- 2+ years experience in an Engineering role
- 2+ years experience in new electrical or electronics product development programs, including product launch phase
- Due to the nature of the projects this role will work on, this position requires this person to be a United States Citizen.
- No relocation benefits are available for this role. Only candidates within a 50 mile radius of one of the facility's will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.
- Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of fuel systems, aircraft systems, and/or hydraulic control systems
- Experience working with reliability/safety teams, product development teams, and internal and external customers
- Knowledge of basic probability and statistics
- Knowledge of handling large data sets
- Statistical tools knowledge (DoE, Weibull, Minitab)
- Preferably DFSS Greenbelt certification
- Knowledge of the DFMEA, Risk log, and 8D process
- Experience with reliability modeling, FMEAs/FMECAs, fault tree analyses, and analyzing large data sets
- Experience with warranty calculations
- Experience with ALT/HALT/HASS methods
- Experience with Windchill Quality Solutions or similar RMS software
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