Reliability & Maintainability Engineer

Shape the Future of Reliability & Maintainability! Join UDRI, a national leader in scientific and engineering research, as a Reliability & Maintainability Engineer supporting USAF with Industry partners. Apply today!

This position will provide support on-site at the Government facility. The R&M Engineer will provide comprehensive, classical R&M engineering support to include R&M analysis, data analytics, program and home office engineering support, capturing standard processes, and implementing best practices. Additionally, the R&M Engineer will provide R&M engineering subject matter expert support in the areas of product support engineering and logistics engineering, and will be responsible for updating standard documents such as MIL Handbooks with modern/current methods and information. The R&M engineer will apply both classical R&M, product support, and logistics engineering, provide training and teach R&M and support engineering techniques and methodologies to others, use and apply R&M and support engineering software for analysis, and develop software code for data analytics. The R&M engineer will provide the Air Force all necessary tools required to complete EZP R&M and Product Support Engineering mission. Duties will also include teaching, training, guiding, and supporting a broad experience-level R&M engineer workforce across AFLCMC, preparing training materials and delivering courses in areas of reliability engineering to small and large groups, providing R&M engineering technical support to AFLCMC Home and Program Office, and conducting large data analytical analyses.

R2 Level Qualifications:
* Bachelor Science Degree mechanical, electrical or another engineering discipline.
* 5+ years of experience working in an engineering/technical capacity.
* 3+ years of R&M experience.
* Experience in operation and maintenance data and respective environments that impact the performance of systems.
* Knowledge of reliability theories, principles, practices, statistical methods, and techniques.
* Knowledge of large data analytical analysis how it may be effectively employed.
* Effective written and verbal communication skills.
* Self Starter and ability to work under minimal supervision.
* Able to obtain and maintain DoD security Clearance.
* Due to the requirements of our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be a U.S. citizen.

R3 Level must meet all minimum qualifications above in addition to having over 10 years of experience in an engineering capacity.

While not everyone may possess all of the preferred qualifications, the ideal candidate will bring many of the following:

* Master’s Degree in an engineering discipline, statistics or equivalent.
* Combined 8+ years of engineering and R&M experience.
* Knowledge of R&M Engineering in Design [RAM-C preparation; R&M contract language; Creation and verification of system R&M specification and requirements; R&M trades for balanced requirements solutions; R&M Program Plans; Reliability Availability and Maintainability (RAM) theory; Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA); Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD); Fault tree analysis (FTA); Reliability Allocation and Prediction generation/modeling; reliability electronic/mechanical component de-rating; Maintenance Task Analysis; perform reliability-centered maintenance (RCM)].
* Knowledge of R&M Testing [R&M test plans; Reliability Growth Planning and Tracking; Joint Reliability & Maintainability Evaluation Teams (JRMET); creation of failure definitions and scoring criteria; HALT/HASS testing; Maintainability Demonstrations (MDEMOs); Built-In-Test Demonstrations.].
* Knowledge of R&M Analysis [Performing maintenance data collection and analysis using REMIS or other AF data sources; Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action (FRACAS) process; reliability verification plans; identification of reliability degraders; preventive maintenance analysis; Weibull analysis; data analytics; VBA coding in Excel; large data analysis in database tool suites.].

To apply please submit a cover letter addressing each minimum qualification and any applicable preferred qualifications that you meet.

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