First Solar reserves the right to offer you a role most applicable to your experience and skillset.
Basic Job Functions:
- The design reliability engineer is responsible for ensuring that the product continuously meets or exceeds First Solar, customer, certification, and regulatory body expectations.
- Responsible to ensure that new process, suppliers, and designs complete the required First Solar qualification plan with acceptable results prior to release to customer production shipments, through a regimented approach of documentation, analysis and clear conclusions/recommendations related to the performance of the change.
- Responsible for assisting in the documentation and development of specific qualifications programs.
- Owns the FMEA creation and development for all levels of FMEA’s (TFMEA, DFMEA, PFMEA, SFMEA)
- Responsible for global support of Reliability qualification efforts.
- Perform project management activities consisting of development projects.
- Applies statistical and engineering methods to optimize organizational effectiveness. Core leader within the group in one or more areas.
- Own the complex problems and drives systematic root cause and corrective actions, implements preventive and monitoring system.
Education/Experience:
- Master’s in engineering or physics (EE, Mech Eng, Chem E)
Required Skills/Competencies:
- Seasoned expert in doing risk analysis using FMEA method.
- Product reliability testing and complex modeling using python or similar tool
- Design of reliability demonstration and modeling tests and automation systems for data logging, analysis, and reporting.
- Experience in the photovoltaic /semiconductor industry is preferred.
- Experience is doing component level FMEA and translating to system level FMEA.
- Experience reliability growth analysis using ALT, HALT, etc methods.
- Experience in correlation of device physics and its reliability in different environmental conditions
- Experience in helping teams to identify reliability related issues during early stage of product development and find solutions to it
- Matlab or Python
- Reliability prediction and modeling
- Problem solving
- Must possess good communication skills.
- Must be motivated to work independently.
- Must be able to demonstrate problem solving ability.
- Must have strong organization and managerial skills.
Reporting Relationships:
- Highly skilled individual contributor with technical, project management, simulation, data management, problem solving, etc skills
Travel:
Estimated Salary Range:
US Physical Requirements:
- Will sit, stand, or walk short distances for up to the entire duration of a shift.
- Will climb stairs on an occasional basis.
- Will lift, push or pull up to 27 pounds on an occasional basis.
- Must be able to comply with all safety standards and procedures.
- May reach above shoulder heights and below the waist on a frequent basis.
- May stoop, kneel, or bend, on an occasional basis.
Office Physical Requirements:
All positions in our office require interaction with people and technology while either standing or sitting. To best service our customers, internal and external, all associates must be able to communicate face-to-face and on the phone with or without reasonable accommodation. First Solar is committed to compliance with its obligations under all applicable state and federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. In keeping with this commitment, it attempts to reasonably accommodate applicants and employees in accordance with the requirements of the disability discrimination laws. It also invites individuals with disabilities to participate in a good faith, interactive process to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made without imposing an undue hardship.
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