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
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Hiring Philosophy
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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.
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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,... For full info follow application link.
