Durability & Reliability Development Manager

Purpose/ Objective:

Lead vehicle durability and reliability validation activities to ensure VinFast vehicles meet quality, performance, and customer expectations before launch.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and lead a small team to execute durability, reliability, and road load data acquisition activities for vehicle programs.
  
• Plan and manage vehicle durability, reliability, and RLDA test programs.
  
• Ensure accurate data collection, analysis, and reporting.
  
• Identify risks and drive issue resolution to meet vehicle quality targets.
  
• Support durability target setting and validation strategy development.
  
• Collaborate with Engineering, CAE, Testing, Manufacturing, and Quality teams.
  
• Ensure compliance with testing standards and data quality requirements.
  
• Develop team capability and technical expertise.
  

Requirements

Qualifications

• Masters / bachelor’s degree in automotive, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
  
• 8+ years of automotive testing, validation, durability, or reliability experience.
  
• 3+ years of leadership experience.
  
• Strong knowledge of vehicle validation, reliability engineering, and problem-solving tools (8D, 5 Why, FMEA).
  
• Good communication and project management skills.
  
• English proficiency required.
  

Key KPI’s- Durability & Reliability

• Lead Road Load Data Acquisition (RLDA), durability, and reliability activities for vehicle programs.
  
• Plan and execute road load, durability, and reliability testing.
  
• Manage vehicle instrumentation and data acquisition systems.
  
• Collect and analyze vehicle load and test data.
  
• Analyze test results and identify risks and improvement opportunities.
  
• Correlate field, proving ground, and laboratory test results.
  
• Support durability target setting and validation strategy development.
  
• Monitor reliability trends, warranty data, and field quality performance.
  
• Prepare reports, dashboards, and KPI reviews.
  
• Collaborate with Engineering, CAE, Testing, Manufacturing, and Quality teams.
  
• Ensure data quality and compliance with testing standards.
  
• Lead and develop the RLDA team.
  

Key KPIs- RLDA

• Vehicle durability target achievement.
  
• Reliability growth achievement.
  
• On-time completion of test programs.
  
• Road load data quality and accuracy.
  
• Timely and accurate reporting.
  
• Effective closure of critical issues.
  
• Reduction of warranty and field quality issues.
  
• Test-to-field correlation performance.
  
• Program launch readiness.
  
• Team capability development.