Product Improvement Engineer

at  Ocado Group

ABOUT US

Our teams are putting the world’s retailers online using the cloud, robotics, AI, and IoT. We provide services to partner clients globally via our innovative advanced robotics technology, known as the Ocado Smart Platform ("OSP"), this drives our highly automated, multi-million pound Customer Fulfilment Centres (CFCs). In our CFCs - together with the proprietary software applications - we operate a world-class online grocery business that automates the single pick of products, ready for your online delivery.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Product Improvement Engineer will contribute to automation product design activities and will be responsible for using data to influence design choices, predicting future failures, defining test strategies, executing test activities, and driving product improvement loops during product maturation.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Define and plan test strategies for new product development, identifying key metrics, test rig requirements and resources needed to enable testing
• Support new test programmes by advising on sample sizes, statistical confidence levels and other reliability targets that need to be achieved
• Support development of future reliability rigs
• Provide validation of supplier/design reliability claims through developing and implementing appropriate test strategies
• Execute test plans, collecting, analysing and presenting results to stakeholders
• Develop predictive reliability models for new and existing products
• Quantify the impact on reliability of any design changes or cost down projects
• Use accelerated life testing & stress screening techniques to realise potential weaknesses in design of new products. Work with other teams to mitigate them
• Identify opportunities to improve or create new KPIs (Key performance Indicators) for existing and new products
• Extract useful statistics from existing product(s) in order to drive improvements both on those products and for the next generation of design
• Lead and collaborate on root cause investigations in product reliability issues
• Facilitate and lead Risk analysis and FMEA Workshops
• Lead/support the identification of root cause and participate in solution generation for issues uncovered during testing