Sr Principal Eng, Reliability

Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and expand possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies. Greater flexibility and efficiency in therapy administration for care teams, and longer, fuller lives for patients— that is what Vantive aspires to deliver.

We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us. At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us is driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us in advancing our mission to extend lives and expand possibilities.

Job Description Roles and Responsibilities:

Reliability Planning and Execution: Collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop and execute reliability plans, ensuring alignment with program requirements and goals.                                                          
Reliability Testing Coordination: Coordinating reliability testing activities, including system reliability testing and reliability demonstration testing.                                                                                                                                 Result Review and External Partnership
Reviewing reliability testing results to identify areas for improvement and inform future testing strategies and partnering with external agencies to perform reliability testing and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.                                                                                                      
Statistical and DFR Expertise: Maintaining and applying strong statistical and Design for Reliability (DFR) knowledge to inform reliability planning, testing and analysis.

Project Leadership: Plan, schedule, and lead project assignments using appropriate engineering techniques, processes, and methods with minimal guidance.                                                                                                                              
Reliability Requirements: Identify and define Reliability related requirements from applicable product requirements, use profiles, and risk mitigations.                                                                                                                               
Guidance and Collaboration: Provide guidance to design teams in Reliability process execution using relevant methodologies, tools & techniques, and collaborate with cross-functional resources involved in activities.                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Reliability Predictions & Metrics: Establish Reliability predictions, Reliability testing, and post marketmetrics.
Communication and Project Management: Create and communicate plans, tasks, deliverables, and status, and manage time and resources to meet committed schedule milestones.                                                                          
Relationship Building: Develop and maintain an effective and collaborative working relationship with internal and external development partners.                                                                                                                                            
Troubleshooting and Problem-Solving: Lead the troubleshooting and problem-solving efforts related to Reliability aspects of devices and associated systems.                                                                                                                                  
Post-Market Support: Support sustaining teams in Post Market events and Investigations.                                                                                                                                                                                    
Risk Assessment: Participate in risk assessment activities, such as DFMEA, to ensure reliability goals are appropriate for risk mitigations.

Education & Qualification 

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical discipline,

Post graduate degree in Reliability preferred                                                                                                                                 

Qualification:

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical discipline, Post graduate degree in Reliability preferred.

Experience:
15+ years of R&D experience; experience in medical device industry preferred                                                           
Experience/expertise in the following areas: Design for Reliability planning and management, establishing Reliability Requirements & Goals, Reliability Prediction using different methods (e.g. Parts count & Parts stress methods).
Strong Working knowledge of Reliability Analysis (statistical techniques), process and methods
Certifications: Six Sigma Yellow Belt                                                                                           
Software: PTC Windchill, Minitab, C-language, MATLAB, VBA basics, RAM Commander, Item-Tool Kit, Reliasoft (Weibull++, λ-Predict), MS-Office, and Easy-Fit Standards: knowledge about MIL_HDBK-217, Telcordia, EN50126, EN50128, EN50129, NPRD, NSWC, EPRD, MIL-HDBK-338.
Working experience on Electromechanical devices Design for Reliability life cycle 
Good understanding on standards like MIL-HDBK-217/ Telcordia and NPRD 95.
Reliability modeling & allocation to set the reliability target for subsystems and components.
Experience developing test strategies, protocols, reports and test method validation documentation. 
Working experience in designing / executing Accelerated Life Testing
Working experience on statistical tools and processes (Field data analysis techniques like Weibull analysis)
Planning and performing reliability growth and Reliability Demonstration Testing and expertise and fluency in Excel, Minitab, Windchill / Relex, Reliasoft, etc. preferred.
Certified Reliability Professional/Engineer (or equivalent) preferred.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills in written and verbal form

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