Purpose of the job:
Develop ways to extend the product life cycle and develop growth opportunities and share best practices to drive cost performance and efficiencies
Key accountabilities:
- Support/leads the Projects/Programs Engineering team to ensure that the correct technical governance is being applied (e.g. suitable design and expert input, defining and enforcing architecture/métier standards, methodologies, processes, tools and solution frameworks against which programs and projects can deliver) – focusing inwardly on the internal consistency; and outwardly on its coherence with other solutions/métiers and standards.
- Review the technical input and subject matter expertise of the proposed design, covering areas such as the definition of requirements compliance, functional fit, technological capability, cost, and delivery capability
- Assess the feasibility of the proposed solution (performance, delivery model and organizational fit), and propose mitigation plans
- Engages with projects/programs to ensure technical risks are being identified and managed
- Chair/Support Design Reviews for subject matter in his/her field of critical developments and projects
- Ensure the implementation of generic products and systems by multi-project synergies in order to optimize cost of technical solutions.
- Propose/Support technical innovation and roadmap development as required in answer to the business strategy of his/her field, with a constant preoccupation to make optimization on the company portfolio and internal processes.
- Maintain view of industry and standards, and domain technical watch to guide orientation with market trends.
- Provide pre-tendering support regarding business opportunities where expected solution does not exist in current portfolio.
- To lead/assist tenders to ensure consistency between the tender development needs and the programs development roadmap
- Owns and develops the processes and procedures through which the regional services organizations undertake engineering activities.
- Drives best practice in the regional services organizations, ensuring standard solutions and architectures are developed, which maximize reuse and minimize rework.
- Ensure a harmonized approach to resolving obsolescence and safety issues, ensuring issues are identified on all affected fleets and common resolutions are applied.
- Identify opportunities to maximize the use of best cost engineering resource in delivering both global and regional engineering initiatives.
- Set the competence requirements for global and regional services activities and ensure that competence is assessed.
- Identify opportunities for fleet upgrades, modifications and improvements, defining standard solutions and architectures and then providing the technical governance and leadership to realize these opportunities in the regional services organizations.
- Chair/support user groups and global community calls to identify multi-project synergies, resolve issues and spread best practice
- To provide engineering leadership and governance for services projects, where the necessary competence and experience is not available.
Performance measurements:
OTD, QCD, PMC, Project reliability / availability / cost targets
Educational Requirements:
University degree in Railway Engineering, Electronics, Computer Science, Automation Engineering or Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Competencies:
Mandatory:
- 1-5 years of experience in Railways system/Application engineering for Engineer
- Knowledge of rolling stock equipment
- Graduated from a STEM university-type course
- Member of an appropriate Engineering Institution
Desirable:
- Knowledge of rolling stock maintenance
- Certification in System Engineering
- Experience
- Working knowledge of safety management systems and safety risk assessment
- Proficient in the use of MS Office, SAP, BI/BO
Competencies & Skills
- Problem solving capacity (technical and costs evaluation of a solution)
- Capacity of managing Technical risks
- Self-motivated
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work independently
- Desire to learn
- Effective, professional interpersonal skills
- Strong team player
