Senior Reliability Engineer in Wolverhampton

Moog is a performance culture that empowers people to achieve great things. Our people enjoy solving interesting technical challenges in a culture where everyone trusts each other to do the right thing. Working with us can mean deeper job satisfaction, better rewards, and a great quality of life inside and outside of work.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership for reliability and safety engineering activities across complex aerospace development programs, serving as Moog’s reliability authority for systems involving integrated electromechanical, hydraulic, and electronic technologies.
• Lead and coordinate system-level reliability and safety analyses, integrating inputs from internal engineering teams and external partners into cohesive, defensible reliability assessments that support certification, program execution, and customer commitments.
• Develop, tailor, and execute reliability predictions and advanced analytical models to support Reliability and Availability guarantees, helping quantify operational risk, forecast failure and repair activity, and inform proposal and warranty strategies.
• Perform and oversee a full range of reliability and safety analyses, including:
• Reliability Prediction
• Failure Modes, Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
• Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Flight Safety Probability of Loss of Control (PLOC)
• System Safety & Safety Hazard Analysis (SHA)
• Common Mode Analysis (CMA)
• Physics of Failure (PoF) assessments
• Built-In-Test (BIT) coverage and system health monitoring architecture development
• Act as the reliability engineering lead on programs involving system-level integration of complex hardware, such as motor control electronics, flight control computers, and linear/rotary electromechanical or hydraulic actuation systems.
• Evaluate reliability and safety requirements to recommend technical strategies, assumptions, ground rules, exceptions, and caveats that ensure compliance while reducing contractual and program risk, particularly in fixed-price or performance-guaranteed programs.
• Define, evaluate, and recommend reliability test strategies, including Reliability Development Growth Testing (RDGT) and other qualification or demonstration approaches, working closely with Environmental and Test Engineering teams to ensure cost-effective and meaningful results.
• Develop and refine predictive reliability models—including customized or novel analytical approaches—to forecast field performance, reliability growth, spares demand, repair volumes, and long-term support implications.
• Support Moog’s proposal and business-capture activities by providing statistical forecasts and documented assumptions that inform pricing, spares inventory, test equipment needs, facilities planning, and lifecycle cost exposure.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to design, systems, quality, environmental test, program management, and supply chain teams, ensuring reliability considerations are embedded early and consistently throughout the product lifecycle.
• Provide technical mentoring and guidance to junior reliability engineers and, where required, support component engineering activities such as component selection, obsolescence management, and technical risk evaluation.
• Engage directly with customers, certification authorities, and external partners, presenting reliability methodologies, analyses, trade studies, and program risk positions with clarity and technical credibility.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in a Reliability Engineering role supporting complex, safety-critical systems.
• Demonstrated experience performing and leading advanced reliability and safety analyses at the system level.
• Strong understanding of reliability modeling, prediction methodologies, and statistical forecasting techniques.
• Proven ability to work independently, exercise engineering judgment, and lead technical decisions with minimal supervision.
• Experience collaborating across multidisciplinary engineering teams and external partners.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical analyses to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting aerospace or other highly regulated, safety-critical industries.
• Familiarity with reliability growth, warranty modeling, and availability-based contractual requirements.
• Experience influencing program decisions where reliability performance carries commercial or financial risk.
• Background supporting proposal development, customer negotiations, or performance-guaranteed programs.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers or providing technical leadership within a reliability organization.

Benefits:

• Flexible benefits package and development opportunities to support career progression
• 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance, mental health support, and financial advice
• Generous life assurance and company pension contribution (from 6%)
• Employee share options, free onsite parking, and EV charging