US-CO-Denver Metro North Systems Reliability Consultant - contract to June 2006 (107900)
The Prism Group is currently looking for a Systems Reliability Consultant in the North Denver Metro area. Interested candidates should send a Word formatted resume along with a qualifying statement for the position. Please include you hourly rate and salary requirements.
Must be a US Citizen
Job Description: Our client has a very well defined process which will accommodate an engineer with a foundational understanding of reliability (either hardware or software). The ideal candidate would be someone with 3 to
5 years of systems reliability experience or someone with a degree in reliability from Arizona University or Maryland. Candidate must have a Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or Electrical Engineering. Communication skills and ability to create rapport are key to this position. Must demonstrate the ability to drive team meetings and be outgoing and sociable.An alternative candidate would be an Industrial Engineering or Operations Research graduate with no reliability experience and having strong math and modeling skills and good with people skills (diplomatic, easy to get along with, able to facilitate a group).
Day to day activities
- Write a reliability program plan that defines what reliability practices will be applied to the program and a supporting schedule.
- Predicting reliability growth curves in the design phase
- Establishing the voice of technology reliability targets
- Hardware reliability predictions based on vendor, test and field data primarily using reliability block diagrams
- Model hardware and software reliability growth (Duane plots and Musa plot respectively)
- Reporting on reliability readiness at the subsystem and system level (combining hardware and software)
Hardware versus Software
- Both Hardware and Software reliability analysis
- Hardware is broken down into mechanical and electronics (both will be used)
The tool suites we use are: (the learning curve is pretty steep on the important ones)
- Relex (w/ Telcordia) (reliability modeling)
- Reliasoft (reliability modeling)
- Mathmatica (for hard core math)
- Flexsim (for simulation)
- Minitab (for statistics)
- Internally developed tools
- Clarify, Pinnacle, Clearquest and TARS (for bug tracking)
- For requirements work which may be a real plus is Doors
Required Technical Skills:
- Reliability analysis
- Program plans
- Predicting Growth
- Hardware Predictions
- Model Hardware growth (Duane) plots
- Model Software growth (Musa) plots
- Report readiness (both subsystem and system level)
- Tool Suites: Relex, Reliasoft, Mathmatica, Flexsim, Minitab, Clarify, Pinnacle, Clearquest, TARS, Doors
Please provide a Skill Inventory (list of skills for this position) with years of experience, skill level (1 to 10 high), and when last used - you must have all 3 items listed for each skill.
If you are missing or have little experience with a line item but have similar skills with another skill area not listed, please add a line to the table to indicate your skills in that area.
When you have completed the skill inventory, please make sure all the skill listed are also on your resume in the appropriate time frames. If needed, update your resume and send with this Skill Inventory.
Each line on the skill inventory should look similar to the example below:
Sample Skill - years of experience - skill level - last used Example: widget flipping - 22 - 8 - July 2005
Thanks, Chet
Skill Name - Years - Level - Last Used Reliability analysis- __ - __ - __ Program plans- __ - __ - __ Predicting Growth- __ - __ - __ Hardware Predictions- __ - __ - __ Model Hardware growth (Duane) plots- __ - __ - __ Model Software growth (Musa) plots- __ - __ - __ Report readiness (both subsystem and system level)- __ - __ - __
Tool Suites (rate each tool) Relex- __ - __ - __ Reliasoft- __ - __ - __ Mathmatica- __ - __ - __ Flexsim- __ - __ - __ Minitab- __ - __ - __ Clarify- __ - __ - __ Pinnacle- __ - __ - __ ClearQuest- __ - __ - __ TARS- __ - __ - __ Doors- __ - __ - __
-- Chet Volpe Recruiter, 303.410.4449 PRISM Group
11001 W. 120th Ave., Suite 400, Broomfield, CO 80021 (cvolpe at bgprism dot com)