Reliability Engineer II
Development Resource Group, Inc.
Mounds View, MNContract$43–53/hrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
The Reliability Engineer II supports product safety, reliability, and performance throughout the product lifecycle. The role leads reliability work for product development and sustaining projects, analyzes risks and failures, and collaborates with design, quality, manufacturing, regulatory, supplier quality, and operations teams. It also supports verification, validation, regulatory submissions, audits, and continuous improvement. A bachelor's degree and at least two years of relevant experience are required.
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Job Duties
The Reliability Engineer II is responsible for ensuring product safety, reliability, and performance throughout the product lifecycle. This role partners with cross-functional teams including Design, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Supplier Quality, and Operations to identify and mitigate reliability risks, support product development, investigate failures, and drive continuous improvement. The ideal candidate applies reliability engineering principles, statistical analysis, and risk management tools to enhance product quality, regulatory compliance, and patient outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
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Lead reliability activities for new product development and sustaining engineering projects.
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Develop and execute reliability plans, test protocols, and risk assessments.
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Perform reliability analyses including FMEA, FTA, DOE, and statistical data evaluation.
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Support design verification, validation, and Design for Reliability (DfR) initiatives.
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Investigate product and process failures, conduct root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
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Develop accelerated life testing and environmental stress testing strategies.
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Collaborate across functions to improve product, supplier, and manufacturing reliability.
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Prepare technical reports and support regulatory submissions, audits, and compliance activities.
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Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on quality, reliability, and operational efficiency.
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Provide guidance on reliability methodologies and best practices.
Minimum Education Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical field.
Minimum Experience Required
Required Qualifications
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2+ years of experience in reliability, quality, manufacturing, or product development.
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Working knowledge of reliability engineering principles, statistical analysis, and risk management tools.
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Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and project management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience in medical device, pharmaceutical, aerospace, automotive, or other regulated industries.
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Familiarity with FDA, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 60601, or similar standards.
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Experience with statistical and reliability software such as Minitab, JMP, ReliaSoft, or MATLAB.
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Experience leading cross-functional investigations and risk reduction initiatives.
Shift
First (Day)
Number of Openings
1
Public Transportation Accessible
Yes
Veterans Encouraged to Apply
Yes
Physical Required
No
Drug Test Required
Yes
Compensation
$43.00 - $53.00 / Hourly
Postal Code
55112
Job Type
Contract (W2)
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
6772
Job Benefits
Health Insurance, Life Insurance, 401k retirement plan, paid sick time
Application Instructions
If interested and qualified, please submit your resume to [email protected] or visit our website to apply: http://dr-group.com/find-engineering-technical-jobs/
How this job compares
Set against the 1,104 open Reliability Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$43–53/hr
- US median$33–42/hr73 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $48/hr, is 29% above the US median midpoint ($37/hr) — in the middle half of Reliability Engineer hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 20 open Reliability Engineer jobs in Minnesota and 1,104 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Minnesota
- Marathon Petroleum Corporation3 open
- Development Resource Group, Inc. (this employer)2 open
- Medtronic2 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Reliability Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 850 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 590 of the 1,104 open Reliability Engineer jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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