HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.
A Career at HARMAN
As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.
About the Role
In this role, you will be a key contributor for driving implementation of Reliability mindset and best practices across our Automotive Division in China.
You will work in a global environment ensure our Product Reliability strategy and Automotive graded mindset is successfully achieved by using your expertise, training/coaching skills and strong multilevel communication capability.
You will report to the Director of the team for “Global Innovative Concept product reliability”.
What You Will Do
- Drive the creation of Product Reliability best practices
- Drive establishment of new reliability methods and tools supporting the Product Reliability strategy
- Ensure alignment and acceptance of Product Reliability roadmap and implementation planning with key stakeholders and Senior Management across all SBUs
- Lead the implementation of Product Reliability best practices, methods and tools
- Monitor and report the status of implementation planning to Senior Management
- Use your expertise to guide and train projects in test to failure, highly accelerated life testing (HALT) and use of simulations
- Lead creation and tracking of reliability growth models and escalate issues to key global stakeholders
- Drive training, implementation and coaching in the program use of product usage profiles, as application of Design for Reliability methods and tools
- Fostering the mindset required for the automotive sector in China
What You Need to Be Successful
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or other science related degree
- 10+ years of experience in Engineering / Reliability / Quality field
- Effective communicator at all levels incl. senior leadership within organization
- Certified Reliability Engineer would be a plus
- High degree of initiative, responsibility taking and excellent interpersonal skills
- Fluent in English and Chinese (written & verbal)
- Background in design or testing of Automotive ECU’s as well as experience in training and coaching global development teams and a structured failure analysis / problem solving experience would be a plus
Bonus Points if You Have
- Experience in the manufacturing sector, design for manufacturing, especially in the electronics or automotive sector
- Experience in Six Sigma (Green Belt), data science, simulation and/or machine learning and artificial intelligence applications
What We Offer
- Flexible work environment, allowing for hybrid work one day per week for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location.
- Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, etc.)
- Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University
- Competitive wellness benefits
- Access to HARMAN Campus Fitness Center and Cafeteria
- “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program
- An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development
HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
