Responsibilities

- Directly lead the team who is responsible for everything related to reliability testing including mechanical stress tests, shock, vibration and environmental testing.
- Continue to build, lead, and grow a team of reliability engineers, setting hiring plans, org structure and career development paths as the team scales with production volume.
- Own the reliability roadmap and testing strategy across the product lifecycle, from design risk assessment through field performance, balancing rigor against Mainspring's fast product cadence.
- Closely partner with the rest of the test engineering team to define and track reliability testing performed on linear generators.
- Define and track reliability metrics and goals (e.g., MTBF, values at risk, warranty/field return trends) and report program health and risk posture to senior engineering and business leadership.
- Establish and continuously improve reliability processes and standards — FMEA, HALT, root-cause methodology, CAPA — as scalable, repeatable systems rather than one-off engineering exercises.
- Serve as the senior reliability partner to Product Engineering, R&D;, and Manufacturing leadership, influencing design decisions and trade-offs at the architecture and program level.
- Lead cross-functional FMEA efforts for design, process, and maintenance, ensuring the right stakeholders are engaged and risk decisions are made and documented.
- Represent reliability in design reviews, program gate reviews, and executive updates, translating technical risk into business-relevant terms.
- Guide cross-functional teams on compliance-relevant design decisions (UL, NFPA, IEC) for electrical and fuel system components, ensuring reliability considerations are built in early rather than tested later.
- Maintain enough technical depth to review and challenge test plans, failure analyses,



and root-cause investigations led by the team — this is a technically credible leader, not a pure people-manager.
- Ensure the team's verification test plans are grounded in system/sub-system specs and industry-standard protocols.
- Champion investment in test infrastructure, automation, and data analysis capability to keep pace with rapid cycles of learning.

Requirements

- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
- 10+ years of experience in reliability, test, or quality engineering for mechanical, electrical, or electromechanical systems, including 3+ years in a formal people-management role (not just projects).
- Demonstrated experience building or significantly scaling a reliability, quality, or test engineering team in a hardware/manufacturing environment.
- Deep, hands-on background in FMEA, HALT, root-cause analysis, and CAPA processes (RCA, 8D), with the credibility to coach others and set standards.
- Track record of influencing design and engineering decisions at the cross-functional/leadership level.
- Strong communication skills, with experience presenting reliability risk and program status to senior/executive stakeholders.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving workplace where systems, processes, and team structure are still being built.
- Experience in hardware or energy/industrial equipment manufacturing, ideally at a company scaling from low-volume to high-volume production.
- Understanding of electrical system concepts, HV/LV electronics reliability, and failure characterization techniques (X-ray, CT, cross-sectioning, optical microscopy).
- Experience with compliance testing and standards (UL, IEC, NFPA).
- Familiarity with data analysis and reliability statistics tooling (Python, MATLAB, Weibull++, JMP) sufficient to guide and review team output.

📌 Director, Reliability Engineering (Moncton)
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