Reliability Lab Manager

Your Job

Molex is seeking a Reliability Lab Manager to lead the strategic direction, talent development, and operational excellence of our Reliability Laboratory in Rochester Hills, Michigan.

In this leadership role, you will lead a team of engineers, supervisors, and technicians responsible for reliability, environmental, mechanical, and electrical testing that supports product qualification and customer success.

This position offers a unique opportunity to influence both people and technical capability development while partnering with Product Development, Quality, Manufacturing, and Customer teams to deliver data-driven insights that improve product performance and reliability.

The successful candidate will create value through leadership, innovation, and continuous improvement while helping shape the future of our laboratory testing capabilities.

Our Team

The Reliability Laboratory plays a critical role in validating product performance and supporting the development of innovative connector and interconnect solutions.

As part of a global organization, this team partners closely with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and customer-facing teams to deliver testing expertise, technical insights, and reliability solutions that support business growth and customer satisfaction.

What You Will Do



* Lead, coach, and develop laboratory engineers, supervisors, and technicians to build a high-performing, contribution-motivated team


* Drive a culture of safety, accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and technical excellence


* Provide strategic direction for laboratory operations, resource planning, test scheduling, and capability development


* Manage laboratory performance through key metrics related to safety, quality, delivery, utilization, and financial results


* Ensure efficient execution of reliability, environmental, vibration, shock, thermal, humidity, mechanical, and life testing activities


* Support product qualification, design validation, customer investigations, and failure analysis initiatives


* Provide technical leadership related to reliability engineering, and accelerated testing


* Lead root cause investigations and corrective action efforts associated with reliability concerns and test failures


* Develop and execute laboratory strategy, capital investment plans, and long-term capability roadmaps


* Evaluate emerging technologies and testing methodologies to improve laboratory effectiveness and value creation


* Collaborate with global laboratory teams to align equipment, processes, testing methods, and best practices


* Support business growth through capacity planning, forecasting, and technical capability expansion


* Ensure compliance with quality systems, customer requirements, ISO standards, and laboratory procedures


* Promote Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) excellence and support audit and continuous improvement activities

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