Senior Or Principal Rolling Stock Engineer

Description:

Mott MacDonald’s Rolling Stock team is a highly successful centre of excellence for railway rolling stock knowledge, supporting a diverse range of customers including government departments, train owners, train operators and manufacturers of railway rolling stock. The Rolling Stock team is an integral part of Mott MacDonald’s Railways division which employs over 300 rail consultants.

The job will ideally be full time, but requests for flexible part-time working would be considered.

For this role you will report to a Team Leader and be based in our Derby, Birmingham, London or Manchester office. Mott MacDonald supports flexible working, with working from home permitted 2 days per week.

You will be responsible for delivering a broad range of consultancy tasks in the field of railway vehicle electronic and electrical systems.

This will involve undertaking design reviews of electronic train systems, performing technical investigations into reliability issues of electronic train systems, supporting clients in developing requirement specifications for electronic train systems. You will also be involved in site visits to inspect rail vehicles, and to provide guidance regarding defects found, obsolescence strategies and vehicle modifications on electronic systems.

Such electronic systems shall include; Train Control and Management System, traction control systems, door control systems, Passenger Information systems, Automatic Power Changeover systems, driver advisory systems, auxiliary power systems and traction battery systems.

You will be expected to be able to produce technical reports conveying critical findings to both technical and non technical staff, presentations to clients and be able to work in a collaborative manner within client project delivery teams.

Part of your responsibilities will be to communicate with key clients and continue to promote Mott MacDonald and the services we offer.

In addition, you will be required to produce proposal documents for new work packages, including estimating the costs required to undertake the activities being proposed.

There may also be an opportunity to travel to other locations (company or client, office or site) within the UK and overseas.

Candidate specification

For This Vacancy It Is Essential That You Have
 

• Rolling Stock electronic system engineering experience in TCMS, traction and auxiliary systems, electronic system aspect of passenger doors including door control and selective door open systems and passenger information systems including both visual and audio systems.
• Previous experience designing such systems or working in a design reviewer capacity of such systems.
• Experience of developing client specifications for such systems.
• Proficient knowledge of the rail industry and applicable standards.
• A degree in engineering.
• Chartership or working towards Chartership in engineering.
   

For This Vacancy It Is Desirable That You Have
 

• Experience in fault finding / technical investigations on rolling stock electronic systems.
• Experience of developing or assessing traction battery solutions.
• Experience in train control systems including ETCS / CBTC.
• Worked for a train manufacture as a rolling stock electronic systems engineer, or held positions in a rolling stock consultancy.
• Experience in producing commercial proposals for technical investigations and studies.
• An aptitude and willingness for mentoring less experienced engineers.