Reliability Engineer

Reliability Engineer
Professional Acquisition Program Engineer, Journeyman
Eglin AFB, Florida 
Niceville, Florida 

HX5 is an award-winning provider of engineering, research and development, and technical services to clients such as NASA and the Department of Defense. Founded in 2004, HX5 is a fast-growing veteran- and woman-owned company with locations nationwide.

HX5 is currently seeking a Reliability Engineer to join our team at Eglin AFB, Florida to support the Air Dominance Division of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center.

The Air Dominance Division (AFLMC/EBA) develops air dominance capabilities that provide unstoppable air superiority. The AFLMC/EB develops, produces, and sustains Counter-Air, Counter-Air Defense, and Aerial Targets for our nation's warfighters and foreign military customers. AFLMC/EBA also develops, produces, and sustains advanced, high-impact, highly classified armament technologies and capabilities to meet joint Air Force, Navy, and Army warfighter requirements. These products include the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM), the High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) Targeting System (HTS), Air Intercept Missile (AIM)-9X, Full-Scale Aerial Target (FSAT), Air Force Subscale Aerial Target (AFSAT), and the Target Control System (TCS).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide advice and guidance on Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) design, test, verification, and validation activities throughout the acquisition life cycle including:
  • Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) requirements development.
  • RAM program planning
  • Developing reliability growth models to ensure designs meet system requirements (including both hardware and software reliability).
• Use design-for-reliability techniques to include:
  • Reliability block diagrams
  • Allocations and predictions
  • Circuit analyses
  • Fault tree analysis
  • Cost trade-off analysis.
  • Change point analysis.
  • Accelerated and highly accelerated stress testing.
  • Highly accelerated life testing. environmental stress screening;
  • Physics of failure analysis, dormancy/storage analysis
  • Warranty data analysis.
  • Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA).
  • Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) process.
  • Growth software tools.
• Generate reliability analysis reports using maintenance and sustainment engineering principles, risk assessment and mitigation strategies, and statistical methods related to test design and analysis.

Additional Duties:

• Conduct reviews on armament programs portfolio to evaluate and/or recommend alternative plans, improve systems engineering programs/processes, manage/sustain program technical baseline, and design/perform system level tests to assure that subsystems and system performance is achieved.
• Prepare management reports and conduct technical presentations for planning, implementation, and corrective actions using the application of engineering principles.
• Perform validation of systems, including the development of criteria and procedures.
• Analyze and/or evaluate results of major engineering weapon systems.
• Provide system/program engineering, technical support and technical training to support programs/initiatives in compliance with Air Force Systems Engineering Assessment Model (AF SEAM) processes.
• Provide engineering support to conduct formal trade studies based on engineering performance, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, cost performance, life cycle cost, producibility, reliability, maintainability, risk, and schedule.
• Provide proposal analysis support services that compare and quantify proposed systems, components, and approaches for technical feasibility, compatibility, and cost-effectiveness.
• Provide concepts and requirements analyses support services including, but not limited to, reviewing and analyzing:
• Initial Capabilities Documents; CDDs; CPDs; AoAs; Military Utility Assessments (MUAs); CONOPS; Technology Development Strategies; Functional Configuration Audits/Physical Configuration Audits (FCAs/PCAs), and; Technology Standards Profiles.

Education and Experience:

• Must have one of the following combinations of education and experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET-accredited college and five (5) years of professional experience OR 
  • Master's degree and three (3) years of professional experience. (Undergraduate engineering degree must be from an ABET-accredited college.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

• This is a full-time position requiring 40 hours per week and offers a flexible work schedule Monday through Friday during core business hours.

Other Position Requirements:

• Proof of U.S. Citizenship is a requirement for this position.
• Must be able to complete a U.S. government background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.

HX5 offers a competitive salary and benefits package to include:

• Relocation Assistance
• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
• 401(k) plan with Company Match
• Paid Holidays
• Accrued Paid Time Off
• Life Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Identity Protection
• Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter/Transit Spending Accounts
• Group Legal Coverage Options
• Pet Insurance

HX5, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

HX5, LLC is a Drug Free Workplace Employer.

ACCESSIBILITY NOTICE:
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process due to a physical or mental disability, please call (850) 362-6551.

CJ