Quality Engineer - Stockport, United Kingdom
Originally posted 16 September 2026 by the employer — open 4 days.
About the role
This role involves leading reliability engineering activities and influencing product performance throughout the entire product lifecycle.
What you'll do
- Lead reliability validation and qualification activities
- Perform failure investigations and root cause analysis
- Develop reliability models and performance dashboards
- Drive corrective actions to improve reliability and customer satisfaction
- Support customer audits and technical reviews
What you'll need
- Experience in Reliability Engineering
- Experience in Product Validation
- Experience in Failure Analysis
- Experience in Root Cause Investigation
- Experience in Statistical Analysis
- Experience in Manufacturing Environments
- Experience with Data Analytics Tools such as Minitab, JMP, Power BI or Excel
Skills: reliability engineering, product validation, accelerated life testing, failure investigations, root cause analysis, statistical analysis
This role has been open 4 days — well below the 54-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
424
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Median days open
54 d
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Median salary
$159k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Novanta | All employers we track in this specialty (424 roles · 70 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 424 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 40 | 9346 · 108 employers |
| Median days open | 33 d | 54 d (−21 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $159k |
Skills observed across this category: reliability engineering, product validation, accelerated life testing, failure investigations, root cause analysis, statistical analysis
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 74 open roles · median 137 d
- Infineon Technologies · 33 open roles · median 41 d
- Applied Materials · 23 open roles · median 77 d
- Analog Devices · 22 open roles · median 40 d
- onsemi · 22 open roles · median 65 d
- Renesas Electronics · 19 open roles · median 34 d
How we counted: 424 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 70 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.