Reliability Lab Manager

Koch Inc

  • Rochester Hills, MI
  • 11 days ago

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    Reliability Lab Manager

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    Rochester Hills, Michigan

    Company

    Molex

    Career Field

    Operations & Manufacturing

    Job Number

    193016

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    Your Job

    Molex is seeking a Reliability Lab Manager to lead the strategic direction, talent development, and operational excellence of our Reliability Laboratory in Rochester Hills, Michigan. In this leadership role, you will lead a team of engineers, supervisors, and technicians responsible for reliability, environmental, mechanical, and electrical testing that supports product qualification and customer success.

    This position offers a unique opportunity to influence both people and technical capability development while partnering with Product Development, Quality, Manufacturing, and Customer teams to deliver data-driven insights that improve product performance and reliability. The successful candidate will create value through leadership, innovation, and continuous improvement while helping shape the future of our laboratory testing capabilities.

    Our Team

    The Reliability Laboratory plays a critical role in validating product performance and supporting the development of innovative connector and interconnect solutions. As part of a global organization, this team partners closely with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and customer-facing teams to deliver testing expertise, technical insights, and reliability solutions that support business growth and customer satisfaction.

    What You Will Do

    • Lead, coach, and develop laboratory engineers, supervisors, and technicians to build a high-performing, contribution-motivated team
    • Drive a culture of safety, accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and technical excellence
    • Provide strategic direction for laboratory operations, resource planning, test scheduling, and capability development
    • Manage laboratory performance through key metrics related to safety, quality, delivery, utilization, and financial results
    • Ensure efficient execution of reliability, environmental, vibration, shock, thermal, humidity, mechanical, and life testing activities
    • Support product qualification, design validation, customer investigations, and failure analysis initiatives
    • Provide technical leadership related to reliability engineering, and accelerated testing
    • Lead root cause investigations and corrective action efforts associated with reliability concerns and test failures
    • Develop and execute laboratory strategy, capital investment plans, and long-term capability roadmaps
    • Evaluate emerging technologies and testing methodologies to improve laboratory effectiveness and value creation
    • Collaborate with global laboratory teams to align equipment, processes, testing methods, and best practices
    • Support business growth through capacity planning, forecasting, and technical capability expansion
    • Ensure compliance with quality systems, customer requirements, ISO standards, and laboratory procedures
    • Promote Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) excellence and support audit and continuous improvement activities

    Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

    • Bachelor''s degree in Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline
    • Seven (7) years or more experience in reliability engineering, validation, testing, laboratory operations, or product qualification environments for automotive products
    • Three (3) years or more experience leading technical teams, including supervisors and direct reports
    • Experience managing projects, budgets, or cross-functional initiatives
    • Experience supporting reliability engineering activities, environmental testing, accelerated life testing, or failure analysis
    • Experience supporting automotive, industrial, electronics, connector, or interconnect product qualification activities

    What Will Put You Ahead

    • Master''s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline
    • Experience with statistical analysis software, reliability modeling, life testing, or data analytics tools
    • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification
    • Experience with ISO 17025 laboratory practices and accreditation requirements
    • Experience developing laboratory strategies, capital plans, and capability roadmaps
    • Experience collaborating across global testing or engineering organizations

    At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate''s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

    Hiring Philosophy

    All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

    Who We Are

    Molex brings together innovation and technology to deliver electronic solutions to customers worldwide. With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a full suite of solutions and services for many markets, including data communications, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, commercial vehicle and medical.

    At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

    Our Benefits

    Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

    Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

    Equal Opportunities

    Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).

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