Reliability Specialist - Systems Engineer

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Job Description

In this role, you will contribute to the transformation of Philips to a customer-centric healthcare solutions provider, by shaping, deploying and applying Design for Availability (Serviceability, Reliability) best practices in businesses and key innovation projects.

You are responsible for

• Create a capability framework for System Availability (Serviceability, Reliability) Engineering together with a global team of experts

• Deploy and drive these Serviceability and Reliability Engineering best practices globally across Philips via training & mentoring

• Coach project leaders, system architects, and system engineers in key innovation programs to define and execute availability strategies and develop associated architectures

• Lead and execute advanced model based system engineering (MBSE) activities to identify availability risks, e.g. systems operational and state modelling to identify failure modes as input to design FMEA, fault tree analysis

• Define and lead data analysis activities to enable optimization for system availability, e.g. reliability modelling, prediction, time to diagnose, repair

• Create architectures, including digital solutions for prognostic asset health management to be adopted by businesses

• Liaise with other expert pools to shape world-class content to be leveraged throughout Philips

• Identify improvement opportunities in Philips businesses and develop actionable proposals and plans to address these

You are a part of

The Product Quality & Reliability team is part of the Philips Product Engineering function. It is a global group of more than 30 experts in all aspects of end-to-end Quality, Reliability and Serviceability engineering. All are active in designing in or improving reliability of complex, innovative products and processes for our customers from both internal Philips businesses as well as external companies, located all over the world. Curious? Check the following video to get an introduction of Reliability Solutions; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMKUpZWAZxs Want more information? See the webinar explaining how the Product Quality & Reliability team works; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AfrBT9Zg-Y&t=388s

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

• A Masters (MSc) degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science

• 8+ years of experience as a leading Systems Engineer or architect in a repairable systems business

• A proven track record of applying Design for Serviceability and Reliability tools and techniques, e.g. Minitab, JMP, Reliasoft, R, SysML, FMEA, FTA, use case & functional modelling, Markov chains, Petri-nets

• A Design for Six Sigma or DMAIC black belt qualification, or equivalent, in a system engineering environment

• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills, combined with a flexible and a hands-on mentality convert theory to practice

• Excellent consultancy skills and the ability to connect with business stakeholders

• A determination and proven ability to drive change

• A passion for continuous learning in order to develop new and advanced capabilities

• Your are willing to travel a substantial part of the job +/- 25%. Experience with working in a regulated environment is a pro.

In return, we offer you

A path towards your most rewarding career. Succeeding in this market-based role in a complex environment will open many doors for your long term career, in other areas in Philips or otherwise. We also believe that we are at our best as a company when you are at yours as a person. Thus, we offer competitive health benefits, a flexible work schedule and access to local well-being focused activities. Furthermore, Philips University is available to all employees for learning and development opportunities.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on improving 2.5 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways. Learn more by watching this video.

To find out more about what it’s like working for Philips at a personal level, visit the Working at Philips page on our career website, where you can read stories from our employee blog. Once there,you can also learn about our recruitment process, or find answers to some of the frequently asked questions.

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