Reliability Engineering Manager
Fortive · Pittsburgh, PA
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Reliability
- Travel
- 10%
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 7+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management reliability role at Fortive (industrial) in Pittsburgh, PA.
- They ask for
- 7+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ)
- Day to day
- about 10% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Reliability Engineer roles in Pennsylvania: typical posted base $101k–$135k.
Median of the low and high ends of 5 live postings that list pay, out of 18 reliability engineer openings in Pennsylvania, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Pennsylvania plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 17 other live reliability postings in Pennsylvania.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (7+ vs 5+)
Typical $101k–$135k, from 5 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 61%
- Team leadership 28%
- FDA / GMP 22%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: Fortive in Pittsburgh
1 other open role at this site.
- Supplier Quality Engineer · Quality
Full description from FortiveAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Responsibilities
This position is responsible for managing processes and teams to develop detailed testing plans and protocols throughout the product development lifecycle. This position will also be involved in the sustaining, VAVE, and quality improvement of ISC legacy products. This position is expected to work closely with various groups to fully assure a properly tested product is released to production and maintaining the testing process documentation.
The duties may include but are not limited to
- ◆Define and execute processes and procedures for testing component and system level specifications and
requirements
- ✓Define and execute processes and procedures for testing to comply with agency approvals (UL, CSA, ATEX, IEC, MSHA, etc.)
- ✓Lead team to troubleshoot new or legacy products with a data-driven approach
- ✓Lead team to resolve complex product issues through detailed analysis, rapid experimentations, test planning, and novel idea generation
- ✓Responsible for testing to meet expected customer use case for reliability, and serviceability
requirements
throughout the expected life span of the product
- ✓Lead innovation in testing that provides high level of accelerated life testing expected in field
- ✓Create, update, and maintain HQA process and procedural documentation
- ✓Enforce, and mature the corporate testing and validation processes
- ✓Mentor and provide technical guidance to HQA technicians
- ✓Travel to customer locations to resolve issues, collect Voice of Customer and visit suppliers to go to Gemba (travel less than 10%)
REQUIRED (Non-Negotiable)
- ✓Associates degree from an accredited engineering college or university or equivalent experience
- ✓Minimum 7 years of experience in hardware life cycle testing and validation
- ✓Demonstrated progressive experience managing a testing and validation processes
- ✓Demonstrated progressive experience with using equipment and knowledge to troubleshoot problems
- ✓Experience with typical laboratory equipment such as thermal chambers, instrumentation and scopes as mandatory
- ✓Experience with establishing best practices for testing
- ✓Proficiency in basic computer software such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- ✓Ability to work independently and in a cross-functional team
- ✓Ability to commit to and work under deadlines
- ✓Demonstrated analytical skills
- ✓Effective written and verbal communication skills
responsibilities
to this job at any time, with or without notice.
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive's essential technology makes the world safer and more productive. We accelerate transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, build environments, and healthcare.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in healthcare sterilization, industrial safety, predictive maintenance, and other mission-critical solutions. We're a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to advanced technologies that help providers focus on exceptional patient care.
We are a diverse team 10,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We're honest about what's working and what isn't, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
About Industrial Scientific
Industrial Scientific designs and manufactures gas detection products and solutions that protect workers from hazardous conditions around the world. Since our beginnings in 1985, we have pioneered numerous technologies, including the first 3-gas detector, 6-gas detector, wireless gas det
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Do you want a career that serves a higher purpose?
The people at Industrial Scientific are committed to ending death on the job by 2050, and we need your help. We hire smart, motivated people, give them world-class tools in a supportive environment, and we let them do their job. In return, our team is highly engaged, creates quality solutions and delivers outstanding customer service. Our leaders understand the critical elements of breakthrough performance: bringing out the best in people; creating a climate of trust, openness, and high performance; fostering candor; and treating people fairly and with dignity. Industrial Scientific provides the environment, leadership and support that enable our team members to exceed their career expectations consistently.
The HQA Manager is a highly skilled professional who leads and directs hardware testing and validation activities. This person acts as a hands-on manager to ensure testing and validation projects are thoroughly tested to replicate potential in-field exposure in the required time frame while maintaining the highest quality standards. This role works with a cross-functional team to test and validate past, current and future industrial safety products and solutions.
PREFERRED (Negotiable)
- +Experience leading a team of Technicians
- +Understanding of accelerated testing processes
- +Proficiency in using Windchill PLM, Oracle EBS, JAMA, and JIRA
- +Understanding of simulation analysis tools and techniques
- +Experience in statistical analysis
- +Experience with gas detection equipment
- +Experience in project management
- +Demonstrated understanding of Stage-Gate development process
- +Experience in electronics packaging testing
Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and
