Product Reliability Lead

Job Description :

We are seeking a Sr. Manager, Product Reliability, to join our team. In this role, you will be building a reliability program in India to support local product development and product lifecycle management from a reliability perspective. You will be accountable for product reliability and for understanding, quantifying and communicating the risks associated with new product development and product management change. This role will also be responsible for the hiring and managing reliability and test staff to fulfill the reliability mission for the Nextracker India. You, and staff you hire, will additionally work closely with internal, external labs and suppliers to assess products.

Core functions :

• Risk Analysis & Assessment : Establish systems to apply first principles approach to determining risk and impact. Organize brainstorming sessions with key stakeholders for quick risk discovery. Oversee Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) sessions during the concept and design phase to help identify failure modes specific solar tracker systems and prioritize mitigation strategies.
• Reliability Test Planning : Ensure that reliability test plans are developed for products being designed and / or maintained in India. Work with the internal test lab and outdoor solar testing fields to direct and execute long term reliability tests for above type of products at component and system level.

Develop accelerated life test protocols (HALT, HASS, fatigue testing, etc.) to simulate long-term performance in compressed timeframes.

Additionally, the candidate is expected to have a good understanding of :

Qualifications :

Bachelor’s (Mechanical, Structural, Materials or relevant), 10 yrs experience. Master’s (Mechanical, Structural, Materials or relevant) preferred with 5-10 years’ experience.