Senior Signalling Design Engineer

About Us

A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there's something for everyone to get stuck into. And that's where you come in.

London, Greater London, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

As a Senior Signalling Design Engineer, you are responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our Signalling solutions for projects and products. You will contributing to architectural and key design decisions to ensure our Signalling solutions meeting the requirement of our customer. You are required to provide support to junior team members through application of mentoring and coaching techniques.

This is a hybrid role, where our minimum expectation is that you will be on site 2 days per week - primarily from a base location in Stratford, but with the opportunity and sometimes necessity to work across London.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Signalling solutions that meet the needs of our clients and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, define project scope, and develop technical specifications.
• Lead architectural discussions and make recommendations on technology and tools. Engage with supply chain to develop understanding of product offerings that can be applied to our solutions
• Design and develop Signalling solutions using industry best practice.
• Undertake the role of Designer as identified in the CDM regulations, with particular attention to design risks. Ensure that safety risks are designed out or deemed "as low as reasonably practicable.
• Troubleshoot issues, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions.
• Provide independent peer review and checking (where licensed to do so) of Signalling designs.
• Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on Signalling design principles, engineering techniques, and best practices.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies, trends, and industry best practices, and apply them to enhance our Signalling solutions.
• Understand, define and lead the project delivery processes, methodologies, and use the defined tools as set out in the GTS Management System and the project specific Engineering Management Plans.
• Support Work Package Managers with timely provision of status, accurate measurement of progress and forecasting of remaining work and by identifying change, variation, risk and opportunity to the work package manager wherever the scope of works is impacted
• Where appointed, act as WPM and lead the Signalling team operationally.

Technical Skills and Experience

• Extensive experience in Signalling development, with a strong understanding of Signalling standards, principles and methodologies.
• Proven experience in designing and developing complex Signalling applications from concept to production.
• Solid understanding of Signalling architecture and design patterns.
• Has a sound ability to use design tools to produce complex designs.
• Be able to define and manage configuration control
• Experience working in an Engineering environment and understanding with ability to define of engineering delivery methodologies.

Human Skills

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment
• A passion for learning and staying current with new technologies and industry trends
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach junior engineers.

Qualifications

• 1.1.550 and 1.1.160 Signalling Designer IRSE License.

What to expect

We aim to complete a two-stage interview process. Your first interview will be a technical competency based interview and presentation and will be held in-person at our Stratford office. The second stage interview will focus on behavioural competencies.

Reasonable adjustments are available with prior notice so please let the TA partner know if this would be necessary. To find out what reasonable adjustments are, and what might be available, your TA partner will be happy to discuss this with you. We may close this role early if we quickly identify suitably strong applicants.

What We Can Offer

We're committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you'll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

At Hitachi Rail

At Hitachi Rail, there is a place for everyone. We welcome and value differences in background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and world view. It is our commitment to create an inclusive environment - we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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