Bombardier
Brugge, Belgium
Description
Bombardier Transportation is the number one provider of rail solutions in the world. Our business holds the number one global market position in eight of the ten markets we service. Our product portfolio includes a full range of passenger rail vehicles and we manufacture locomotives, bogies, propulsion and rail control solutions.
At Bombardier, our employees work together to evolve mobility worldwide - one good idea at a time. If you have a good idea, we'll provide the environment where it will thrive and grow into a great product or customer experience. Your ideas are our fuel.
We are looking for a Vehicle Engineer (Electrical Architect) to be based in Crespin (France) or Bruges (Belgium)
Purpose of the job
To technically define, develop and lead the whole of the design for a rolling stock project Option. With full design lifecycle responsibility, from ensuring a complete and correct set of requirements are established to ensuring the developed train architectures, concepts and designs are valid and correctly integrated as to meet the technical requirements in a class leading, competitive and compliant design.
Key responsibilities and challenges
- Project technical lead with responsibility for the developing the whole train design, directing and guiding the project’s design team (direct and indirect reports) to ensure valid key technical design decisions are made in a structured and timely manner, that all technical risks are identified and mitigated.
- Ensuring the technical design is fully integrated and the design verified through the design lifecycle against a complete and correct set of technical requirements, using best practice system engineering processes and tools (e.g. Trade Analyses, Interface management, Requirements Management)
- The principal technical interface to the project’s; Stakeholders, Engineering Functional Heads and Divisional Leadership team, preparing and reporting technically on the project’s progress, issues and risks.
- Leading the review of customer technical specifications and legislation in order to establishing the train level requirements and the subsequently development of the principle design architectures and concepts to meet these requirements. Ensuring key decisions regarding architecture, concepts and system technologies solutions are made in a timely manner to ensure bid and project timescales can be achieved.
- Planning and estimating timescales and costs associated with delivery of the scope of work associated with the role. And directly managing the scope of work during bids and projects.
Qualifications
Qualifications & Functional Knowledge
- Degree and/or Chartered status essential, Masters Degree desirable.
- Technical domain experience essential, System Integration experience essential, System Architectural understanding essential.
- Evidence of having successfully technically led the development of a new train design, or significant vehicle integration role on a rolling stock projects
- Experience of defining, structuring and developing a rolling stock platform designs
- Significant experience and hands on delivery of the design, analysis, development, testing and delivery of engineering solutions that solve complex requirements.
- Provide cost and schedule estimates on complicated engineering programs.
- Provide technical expertise in vehicle level concept development
- Be able to demonstrate the ability to use this technical knowledge in the support of other departments (engineering, production, procurement, projects) and the development of less experienced engineering personnel.
- Experience of developing and applying a range of system engineering process and tools e.g. DOORS requirements management database
Leadership – Management or Technical
- Works independently through the application of acquired knowledge, precedent and judgment based upon standard procedures
- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may direct the work of other staff members.
- Innovates and leads the way.
- Encourages others and recognises success, by empowering them and acknowledging their contribution.
- Has the ability and desire to lead others as well as an ability to inspire, motivate and build enthusiasm.
- Strives to drive cross-team collaboration and lead by example in actions, delivery and behavior.
Cognitive Behaviors: Problem Solving
- Demonstrable ability to solve complex problems; analyse possible solutions using technical experience and judgement.
- Performs in depth analysis of symptoms, root causes and impacts of a given problem or situation.
- Understands the issue by breaking it into smaller pieces or working through it in a systematic, step by step way, appreciative of the integration challenges.
- Understands how to simplify complex issues and differentiates critical facts from unimportant details.
- Ensures maximized sustainability by making good decisions and monitoring them.
- Conducts complex analyses, and ensures use of several analytical techniques to identify multiple solutions to a problem, weighing up the potential impact of each one.
- Digs beneath the surface to find the facts and inquire outside the defined boundaries of responsibility.
- Proactively investigates areas outside current responsibility, even when not asked to do so, in order to initiate action and respond to specific situations.
Cognitive Behaviors: Innovation
- Proposes and implements new ideas and ways of thinking about methods, processes and technologies in order to achieve or improve performance objectives.
- Identifies problems and opportunities, recognizes patterns between situations that are not obviously related and takes specific action to address them.
- Contributes to an environment that is conducive to the generation of new ideas by challenging established structures.
- Supports opportunities for brainstorming and idea generation around products, services or process improvement.
- Implements new and creative ways of doing things to improve products, processes, tools and services
- Creates and applies different approaches to enhance standard processes and procedures.
Area & Nature of Impact
- Able to design engineering systems and complex interfaces
- Gather and analyse complicated technical data, to solve system level design problems by performing system trade-off and coordination studies
- Create novel design alternatives
- Develop reliability, safety and maintainability approaches and decide on optimum design approach.
- Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other teams whose work activities are closely related.
- Anticipates underlying customer needs, by foreseeing unspoken customer needs and providing advice on available and customised products and services to address them.
- Leads design reviews internally and with customers
- Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other teams whose work activities are closely related
Interpersonal & Communication Skills
- Demonstrates excellent communication skills, and be able to communicate across a wide group of audiences – engineering communities, customers (internal & external), senior management.
- Have that ability to make the complex simple.
- Be clear in the identification and stakeholder understanding of the key issues, opportunities, alternatives