Hardware Design Engineer

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and help shape the future of hardware engineering at Alstom. You’ll report to the Head of Engineering and play a vital role in delivering timely hardware engineering designs for a variety of electronic systems. Collaborating closely with internal teams and external customers, you’ll ensure high standards in health and safety, efficiency, cost, innovation, and service levels while addressing any hardware engineering issues that may arise. You will raise overall standards in hardware engineering performance using best practice design methods and continuous improvement (CI) tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide hardware engineering support for a range of electronics systems, ensuring designs meet the correct specifications and quality standards.
• Liaise with production, project teams, and external customers to ensure engineering activities align with site objectives and budget levels.
• Lead or assist in technical investigations into hardware engineering challenges, delivering timely and high‑quality solutions.
• Recommend changes to specifications and processes to improve product reliability and operational performance.
• Represent the Engineering team in both internal and external meetings, collaborating to resolve engineering challenges effectively.
• Support the introduction of new hardware designs from planning through to full implementation.
• Ensure full compliance with UK Health and Safety Regulations and Alstom Electronics quality standards.
• Achieve KPI targets for Right First Time (RFT), efficiency, cost and service.

Qualifications

• Good understanding of electronics analogue & digital design disciplines, together with health and safety and quality standards.
• Substantial electronics hardware design experience within a relevant business, using best practice design methods, value engineering and CI techniques.
• Education in electronics engineering at degree level or equivalent.
• Driven, disciplined, logical thinker, self‑motivated, team player, capable of communicating at all levels and highly innovative in delivering high standards of electronics hardware design.
• Excellent technical ability and communication skills.
• Strong personal discipline, health & safety awareness, time management, problem solving and continuous improvement mindset.
• High level of customer focus.

Things you’ll enjoy

• Enjoy stability, challenges and a long‑term career free from boring daily routines.
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues.
• Contribute to innovative projects.
• Utilise an agile working environment.
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries.
• Benefit from investment in your development, through award‑winning learning.
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension).
• Up to 52 weeks full maternity and adoption pay.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday.
• A wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle.

Equal opportunity statement

Alstom is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law. As a "disability confident leader accredited employer", we will interview all disabled job applicants who match the essential criteria of the job description or specification.