Tool liaison vs reliability engineer

The differences between tool liaisons and reliability engineers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 2-4 years to become both a tool liaison and a reliability engineer. Additionally, a reliability engineer has an average salary of $105,551, which is higher than the $83,524 average annual salary of a tool liaison.

The top three skills for a tool liaison include jigs, CATIA and design requests. The most important skills for a reliability engineer are java, troubleshoot, and ruby.

Tool liaison vs reliability engineer overview

	Tool Liaison	Reliability Engineer
Yearly salary	$83,524	$105,551
Hourly rate	$40.16	$50.75
Growth rate	10%	10%
Number of jobs	13,025	44,471
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 63%	Bachelor's Degree, 76%
Average age	42	42
Years of experience	4	4

Tool liaison vs reliability engineer salary

Tool liaisons and reliability engineers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Tool Liaison	Reliability Engineer
Average salary	$83,524	$105,551
Salary range	Between $42,000 And $163,000	Between $76,000 And $144,000
Highest paying City	-	Richmond, CA
Highest paying state	-	Washington
Best paying company	-	The Citadel
Best paying industry	-	Start-up

Differences between tool liaison and reliability engineer education

There are a few differences between a tool liaison and a reliability engineer in terms of educational background:

	Tool Liaison	Reliability Engineer
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 63%	Bachelor's Degree, 76%
Most common major	Mechanical Engineering	Mechanical Engineering
Most common college	Northwestern University	Northwestern University

Tool liaison vs reliability engineer demographics

Here are the differences between tool liaisons' and reliability engineers' demographics:

	Tool Liaison	Reliability Engineer
Average age	42	42
Gender ratio	Male, 89.2% Female, 10.8%	Male, 87.5% Female, 12.5%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 4.9% Unknown, 4.0% Hispanic or Latino, 12.0% Asian, 9.6% White, 69.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 4.4% Unknown, 3.9% Hispanic or Latino, 10.8% Asian, 14.3% White, 66.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	4%	4%

Differences between tool liaison and reliability engineer duties and responsibilities

Tool liaison example responsibilities.

Apply for and achieve ISO certification.
Manage implementation of these solutions with hangar managers, inspectors, technicians, vendors, and OEM's.
Review changes and issues utilizing CATIA and VPM.
Design work are produced both on paper and on CATIA V4.
Collaborate with CMM equipment in the inspection of inventory shipments, ensuring all materials comply with government quality requirements and specifications.
Perform some QA inspections with raw sheet material for customer qualifications and cost saving projects.

Reliability engineer example responsibilities.

Lead a team of over 20 engineers responsible for implementing NASA human-rating requirements to achieve human-rating safety certification.
Manage GMP compliance, FDA audits, and the writing of [] procedures.
Achieve completion of the resistors and capacitor sections of the AVL.
Lead the implementation of utilizing SPC data for software and test set improvement initiatives.
Delegate tasks to appropriate CE specialist and manage``burn rate"to prevent cost overrun.
Design, build, and manage the entire QMS system from the ground up including re-writing all existing technical documentation.

Tool liaison vs reliability engineer skills

Common tool liaison skills

Jigs, 56%
CATIA, 29%
Design Requests, 16%

Common reliability engineer skills

Java, 22%
Troubleshoot, 10%
Ruby, 7%
Jenkins, 5%
Azure, 4%
Debugging, 4%