Senior or Principal Rolling Stock Engineer (Electronic Systems)

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve.

About the business unit

We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.

About the role

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

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
• Site visits to inspect rail vehicles and 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 produce technical reports conveying critical findings to both technical and non-technical staff, presentations to clients and work collaboratively 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 manufacturer 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

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills, and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Agile working

We are happy to talk openly about flexible working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace. We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues
• Health cash plan to support you with everyday health costs and treatments
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits
• Financial wellbeing with matched employee pension contributions
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover and critical illness insurance
• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Learning and development opportunities

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