Founded in 1918, Kearfott Corporation, a global Aerospace and Defense supplier for over 100 years, is a leader in the design and manufacture of precision motion control products and inertial navigation components. Kearfott has a very long history of innovation and excellence, and is the go-to brand for many of our global clients. Kearfott is trusted, respected and plays a vital role in the success of America's aerospace and defense industries. With over a century of expertise & experience, Kearfott is dedicated to providing quality, reliability, and cutting-edge technology to customers worldwide to meet their sea, land, air, and space navigation and guidance requirements.

Kearfott offers a comprehensive benefits package including a 401K, and Tuition Reimbursement. We offer a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off, and flexible work options for most positions.

We are looking for talented individuals who want to be part of a world-class work force. Join Kearfott and become part of a company that is recognized for technical expertise and respected world-wide as a 'full service' provider.

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Reliability Engineer

Our Guidance & Navigation Division in Pine Brook, NJ has an exciting opportunity for a Reliability Engineer to join our team. In this position, you will work in a dynamic people-focused environment where you will work directly with experienced engineers and scientists to assist with reliability analysis. You will also be responsible for attending/facilitating capability review meetings and providing MTBUR data for aerospace parts. You will be the central focal point for the reliability function with other disciplines and with customers for the program(s) assigned. Will research and write reliability portions of various technical proposals.

Essential Functions

• Work with IPT to identify reliability critical items and any non-conformances and offer design alternatives.
• Generate reliability, maintainability and system safety reports for IPT and customer review.
• Perform system safety analyses per Mil-Std-882 and SAE ARP4761.
• Perform Maintainability analyses per Mil-Std-470.
• Review customer reliability, safety and maintainability requirements and provide RMS/C analysis.
• Safety requirements decomposition.
• Reliability Block diagrams (series and parallel modeling).
• Failure Modes and Effects and Analysis/Failure Modes & Criticality Analysis (FMEA/FMECA).
• Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).
• Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA).
• Weibull analysis.
• Reliability predictions (MTBF, failure rates, MTBUR).
• Reliability Growth Curve.
• Reliability Demonstration.
• Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT).
• Root Cause Analysis.
• Avoidance of Single Point of Failure (SPOF).
• Preventive / Planned Maintenance Optimization (PMO).
• Performs other duties as may be assigned.

Critical Competencies

• Holds oneself accountable for doing whatever is needed to meet the commitments.
• Ability to multitask using the appropriate level of priority setting.
• Ability to work well under pressure, to adhere to deadlines and the ability to be flexible.
• Thorough knowledge of reliability analysis tools.
• Ability to prioritize and organize work.
• Must have strong technical writing skills and outstanding interpersonal skills.
• Analyze, incorporate and apply new information and concepts.
• Diverse and global team communication and collaboration.
• Self-motivated and able to work with little supervision, who consistently take the initiative to get things done.
• Multi-tasking and has the ability to manage a variety of complicated tasks.
• Engineering experience (systems, Software & Hardware).

• BS in Mechanical or Electrical engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in similar role within the aerospace industry which must include Reliability, Maintainability and Safety engineering analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment.
• Radiation hardening of electronics experience a plus.
• De-rating of electronic parts a plus.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.
• Must be able to obtain security clearance.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.