Job Description

Lead test projects to evaluate new mechanical & electro-mechanical products, changes to existing products, and competitor products. Serve as full member on teams, collaborate with internal customers, develop test plans, defining test sample size, define the Pass / Fail criteria, streamlining or tailoring any test procedures, schedule lab resources, oversee or perform tests, report results, and make recommendations in a timely manner. Evaluate products or product changes for conformance to pertinent standards using test results, statistical analysis, reliability modeling, and engineering criteria. Analyze Requirements, Develop plans (DVP&R), procedures, test equipment, and fixtures to perform mechanical, environmental, and electrical tests on door hardware and access control products. Support Engineering to Investigate product failures to help identify root cause and recommend corrective actions. Drive process improvement, increasing lab throughput and improving repeatability & reproducibility of test results. Serve as an internal expert on test methods, industry standards, data analysis tools, and Design of Experiments (DOE), Measurement System Analysis (MSA), Weibull Analysis, and FMEA. Test Automation, Program PLCs to operate test machines and other custom bench tests. Use strong communication and interpersonal skills to serve internal customers such as Product Engineering, Process Engineering, Product Management, and Technical Service, and to collaborate with peers, both locally and globally. Fluent in most engineering processes and leading efforts to improve. Responsible for managing and completing significant projects involving multiple components and subsystems. Technical leadership on cross-functional teams. First point of contact within engineering with external customer (mid-mgmt. level), resolves external customer issues at advanced engineering level, customer presentations. Identifies and manages many of own assignments. Skilled at customer presentations and communicating and influencing internal customers (across functions and upwards). Documentation is professional and frequent with virtually all technical work formally captured. Able to apply several engineering concepts and develop/derive new relationships for a specific problem. Able to quickly generate numerous alternative solution paths, and objectively down-select to several technically promising alternatives based on sound reasoning. Critical thinking and analytical skills to examine product failure issues and prioritize necessary tests; from reproducing the reported issue and emphasizing the fix for critical issues to understanding how the issue was fixed; analyze actual results against the expected ones. Participate in the technical review process contributing to the project team from the reliability and testing point of view. Able to assess continuation risk and quality of previous work on a project. Shall have basic understanding about the Reliability predictions and shall closely work with Reliability and Quality group Shall represent the test lab in multiple Design reviews and Gate reviews. Shall closely work with other Test Lab locations, Product Design Team, Operations, Compliance team, Reliability Engineers, Quality Engineers, Product owners and Technical Support team Shall be identifying the need for any new test methods and shall support in setting up the test machines, by working with the global test lab locations and vendors, as necessary. Willing to train the new engineers and provide any technical support when needed.

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