Senior Reliability Engineer

Description

Position is based in Boston, USA or Berlin, Germany

 

About LIFTE H2 Inc.

The world needs a green electron and a green molecule for deep decarbonization of society. Hydrogen is an enabler of increased renewable energy penetration and solves many challenges with logistics, electrical infrastructure build-out, and hard to decarbonize sectors such as heavy-duty mobility. Hydrogen for power generation, mobility, and storage is now an accepted reality in many use cases, but the capability to deliver credible infrastructure at scale remains nascent. LIFTE H2 Inc. is poised to accelerate the hydrogen economy through direct action, unparalleled capability, next-gen technology, and partnerships.

LIFTE is a 100% employee-owned company built from the leadership team of one of the world's foremost hydrogen infrastructure multi-national corporations, with a vision to accelerate deep decarbonization of society through the use of zero emission hydrogen. LIFTE is solving the challenge of building supply chains that connect renewably generated hydrogen with customers where and when their operations demand it. We do this safely, at scale, reliably, and profitably.

LIFTE currently focuses on rail, marine, mining, and on road heavy duty market sectors. Expansion into power generation, industry, and distribution is part of our growth plan. The founding team is using next generation technologies in compression, digital, distribution, and dispensing systems in partnership with the world's leading hydrogen technology providers. LIFTE is a supply chain integrator, delivering project level value to project financiers, public-private partnerships, and project developers around the globe.

LIFTE H2 cares as much about the path taken as the end result, the end never justifies the means. We are curious truth-seekers, who do our best to do business in a way that brings love and respect to all the humans and the environments we interact with. We work hard and are mission focused, creating opportunities for ourselves and others around us. How we fulfill this mission is as important as the vision itself; LIFTE will show our customers, partners, and the environment Love, Integrity, Fun, Truth and Excellence in everything we do.

LIFTE offers very competitive pay, vacation, and benefits with equity options. We are headquartered in Boston, with a subsidiary in Berlin and are on a rapid growth path that we hope you will consider being a part of!

 

The Role: Senior Reliability Engineer

The Senior Reliability Engineer (SRE) is a multidisciplinary role, in an exciting new industry that seeks to bring zero emissions mobility to all sectors of global transportation. The SRE will be responsible for helping to ensure that new product offerings in light duty, heavy duty, marine, rail and off-road vehicle applications are designed for high reliability and maintainability. Additionally, the SRE will work with the LIFTE product engineering team and operations team to identify areas for improvement across LIFTE product lines and then help to implement these changes with LIFTE’s hydrogen equipment suppliers.

The SRE shall have an excellent understanding of reliability statistics, tests and software tools as well as a deep understanding of rotating equipment and complex systems to influence design for reliability, maintainability and operability.

 

The SRE will drive and enhance the current implementations of best in practice software tools (MADe to improve the product development process across Shell Hydrogen as well as our equipment and technology suppliers.

 

The SRE will drive FTAs, FMECAS and FMEAs and work closely with suppliers in conducting operability and maintainability demonstrations.

 

The SRE will be passionate and customer obsessed, with a blend of business and technical skills who will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and test. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.

 

The SRE will report to LIFTE’s Chief Systems Engineer.

 

Your Responsibilities

• You will be passionate about helping to deliver products which are:
• Safe to operate
• Cost competitive
• Highly efficient and reliable and
• Delight our customers
• You will review system, subsystem and component technical specifications to ensure products will meet reliability and operability requirements
• You will understand the product's degradation and failure mechanisms and their associated consequences.
• You will support product engineering and new product introduction phases through Reliability Engineering analysis and documentation
• You will support and mentor LIFTE suppliers in their efforts to implement reliable product designs
• You will develop, coordinates and conducts technical reliability studies and evaluations of engineering designs and in service products
• You will recommend and implements design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability
• You will assist with defining verification and validation activities for new products
• You will compile and analyze fault and performance data from customer assets and assist in implementing corrective actions in conjunction with cross-functional team members
• You will assist in risk management assessments of new designs and updates to released products
• You will lead FTAs and FMECAs
• You will provide reliability mentorship to other LIFTE team members
• You will possess a high level of attention to detail

 

Requirements

What Experience & Education is Required?

• Masters in engineering, physics, or reliability
• An extensive background (15+ years) in reliability related roles
• Knowledgeable in conducting FMEA, FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis and Risk Assessments
• Experience and knowledge with hydrogen systems is a significant asset, but not required
• Experience working with reliability modeling tools
• Experience working with next-gen collaboration tools are an asset (Asana, Pipedrive, Slite, Gsuite, Slack)

 

What Skills are Necessary for Success?

• Outstanding cross-group collaboration skills and proven ability to drive results across multiple organizations
• Ability to effectively drive technical conversations with developers, partners, regulators and customers
• Strong ability to work independently and handle ambiguity
• Analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive action
• Demonstrated track record of creative problem solving; thinks big, starts small, grows fast
• Strong attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple responsibilities
• Extreme curiosity and appetite for learning and growth
• Ability to provide vision and direction in an interrupt-driven, fast-paced and diverse environment
• Ability to come up to speed and operate on technical concepts quickly

 

What Qualities are We Looking for?

• Passion: your passion is incorporated in what you do, and drives your progress
• Servant leadership: constant focus on how your work can serve the needs of others
• A focus on excellence: your work is error free and complete
• Good judgement: your recommendations are sound
• High integrity: you do the right thing, especially when no one is looking
• Community builder: we like each other, and want you to be a contributing member of the LIFTE community in whichever way you are uniquely designed. Diversity of thought and approach is important to us.

 

Additional Details

• Domestic travel at 10% with occasional international travel required
• Position is based in the Boston area or Berlin, Germany
• Combination of virtual and in office working (50/50)

 

Extremely Competitive Benefits Program

Boston:

• Incentive Stock Options
• Performance-based company profit sharing bonuses
• 401K plan with company match
• Industry leading healthcare coverage: medical, dental, and vision
• Generous time away, including 5 weeks paid vacation for all, regardless of seniority
• Sick Time
• Company-paid life and disability insurance
• 6 Holidays plus 2 floating holidays

 

Germany:

• Urlaubsgeld
• Weihnachtsgeld
• Performance-based company profit sharing bonuses
• Stock options possible
• Betriebliche Altersvorsorge
• VWL
• Travel, health, and accident insurance
• Jobrad
• Competitive and environmentally friendly mobility options paid for by employer
• Family friendly policies