Electrical Controls - Design Engineer

Salary:

The Design Engineer is responsible for the management of multiple projects in terms of scope, timely delivery, quality, and compliance in a technical/engineering environment. This position interfaces with respective customer departments and local suppliers to drive project execution.

Responsibilities:

• Use creativity to find cost-saving opportunities within locomotive maintenance/repair programs for electrical components including cards and panels.
• Manage long term planning to meet the project milestone fulfillment.
• Drive cross-functional teams to execute on critical project milestones, including but not limited to: design reviews, material orders, prototype builds, field and bench testing, etc.
• Support of concept design, detailed design, and design analysis for locomotive systems and maintenance processes.
• Interface/work with shop personnel during developmental stages.
• Ownership of stated technical/cost/reliability/performance requirements of the project.
• Interacting with material planning, purchasing, quality, engineering sub-system teams, drafting and global engineering sites.
• Participate and present in business and design reviews.
• Work with project consisting of electrical components (AC & DC motors, alternators, transformers) and power electronics (SCR, GTO, IGBT).

Desired Skills:

• Experience with managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Solid interpersonal/communication and leadership abilities.
• Strong engineering background and proven experience with leading various technical projects.
• Knowledge of reliability data analysis through statistical modeling.
• Experience/knowledge with general manufacturing processes and business practices.
• Additional experience/knowledge with locomotive systems a plus.