Co-Op Reliability Engineering - RCH-2539
6 months / January - June (preferred) / 40 hours per week / $15.38 - $21.23
*Housing allowance available to eligible candidates
Your Role:
As a Reliability Engineering Co-Op, you will be treated as a self-sufficient entry-level engineer with an assigned mentor for your support. You will be responsible for creating and improving the validation methods for evaluating product reliability in both new and existing products. You will assist in troubleshooting designs for root cause. Depending on your area of study you will be assigned to projects in the areas of software, electrical, mechanical, hydraulic or "all the above". You will complete forklift training and acquire your forklift operating license in order to assist in your learning of the products, testing of prototypes, and determining solution activities.
Your Responsibilities:
- Create the reliability qualification plan for both new and existing designs, the resolution of design issues and customer special requests
- Drive the investigation of root cause analysis and develop validation plans for resolutions
- Gather and analyze reliability data from field sites and databases to show trends of current products
- Predict future reliability data based on current data, design analyses and stress/risk analysis
- Prepare technical reports and presentations for internal and external customers
- Apply reliability statistical techniques for new features to meet market requests
Your Key Skills & Responsibilities:
Required:
- Currently pursuing a BS or MS degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Software, Computer Engineering or related field
- Strong desire to be hands-on and spend time in the test lab
- Ability to successfully interface with a diverse group (i.e. quality personnel, design and test engineers, manufacturing, leadership staff)
- Analytical with a strong orientation toward problem-solving
Preferred:
- A working knowledge of Minitab / Weibull Analysis
- Strong presentation skills - comfortable presenting to a diverse audience
- Strong knowledge of electrical components and software
Your Department:
Our Reliability Engineering Department is a multi-disciplinary team responsible for improving the reliability of our material handling vehicles and new technology offerings. We work on new development projects from functional spec creation all the way into customer acceptance. It is our goal to lead the industry with our reliability and quality products. To assist with this, we collaborate with our global Toyota teams to share and evaluate new methodologies.