In this role you will be responsible for developing Concepts and Design Requirements for Energy management applications installed on locomotives. In this role you will work closely with a team of Software Engineers, QA Engineers, System architects, System Engineers, and Product Managers.
Essential Responsibilities
- Drive the execution of design, analysis, or evaluation of assigned projects using sound engineering principles and adhering to business standards, practices, procedures, and product / program requirement
- Be responsible for System / Subsystem Level Design requirements for Energy management features and functionalities by providing the Design concepts, detailed design requirements on DOORs, Product Descriptions, ICD s, FMEA s, Sub system design documents and other input documents.
- Define and manage Interfaces to all sub-system in compliance to the system solution.
- Support and work with Software and validation engineers in developing the feature/functionality enhancement and solutions.
- Help define System Validation Plans and work with Validation Engineers to ensure traceability between the design requirements and test plans to verify cross references.
- Participate as a presenter or reviewer in technical and program reviews.
- Take ownership of technical concepts, solution, risks / mitigation plans, and engineering cost estimates on proposals.
- Maintain broad awareness of technical trends to ensure technical quality excellence, timely completion of work, and reviews and responsiveness to customer / program needs.
- Provide effective and timely communications on significant issues or developments.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Must be willing to work out of an office located in Bangalore, India
Qualifications / Requirements
- Bachelor s degree in Controls / Electronics / Instrumentation or other technical / science disciplines.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of technical experience along with established technical leadership credentials across Locomotive / Automotive / Aerospace product lines.
- Minimum of 2 years hands-on design and implementation experience involving; Engineering Systems, Hardware / Software Engineering, and/or Electrical Designs.
Technical Expertise:
- Strong technical knowledge in embedded systems design and controls development concepts.
- Background in System Design and Validation on systems involving; Real time / non-real time controls, HMI, Energy management / Optimization techniques.
- Understanding and translating customer requirements of Energy management / fuel savings for design solutions.
- Embedded programming and/or experienced in Model based designs in MATLAB/Simulink.
- Experience with System Testing Processes, Tools, and Automation.
- Experience with DOORs classic and Next gen - Requirements Management Tools, ClearQuest, IBM Rational team concert tools.
Business Acumen:
- Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements, and estimating efforts.
- Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the product development team. Balances value propositions from competing stakeholders.
- Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to help make design recommendations, scope MVPs, and to drive timely decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to anticipate future needs, requirements, or course corrections necessary before they are articulated by stakeholders.
- Ability to implement customer and industry standards and work in a cross-functional, global environment.
Leadership:
- Ability to take ownership of complex/medium sized or incompletely defined tasks.
- Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions.
- Delivers while mentoring and helping junior team members.
- Relentless drive and desire for continuous improvement. Challenges the status quo and pursues opportunities to drive service evolution, quality and efficiency while removing waste and non-value-added work from team activities.
- Continuously measures deliverables against commitments. Effectively balances multiple, different and/or competing objectives.
Personal Attributes:
- Ability to engage and build positive relationships with both internal/external customers and peer groups.
- Self-motivated with the ability to lead and drive the effort with minimum supervision.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Effective team building and problem-solving abilities.
- Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit and exhibiting role model behavior.
Role: Design Engineer
Industry Type: Courier / Logistics
Department: Research & Development
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Role Category: Engineering & Manufacturing
Education
UG: Any Graduate
PG: Any Postgraduate
About company
Today, Wabtec is a leading supplier of freight car and locomotive products. We are a global leader in rail friction, HVAC and pantographs. Our customers depend on us for the development and production of electronic recording, measuring and communications systems. Our focus on advanced engineering and new product development has resulted in more than 4,000 active patents.