Graduate Hardware Engineer

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company's new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com.

It's not just about your career… or your job title…it's about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven't been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

Graduate Engineers will support the design and development of DMT products, with a specific focus on hardware/firmware products for above and under-ground mining applications.

The technology is mining domain specific, a mixture of software, firmware, and hardware for use on vehicles and machinery used for mining operations. The products requiring focus for this role relate to Collision Awareness (CAS). The role is supported with mechanical and software peers, and is located at the DMT production facility, and electronic production support is expected when required.

Digital Mine Technology (DMT) is on a transformational journey to deliver value for our customers and stakeholders, on-time, on-budget, and on-quality.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work closely with the broader engineering team to create optimum hardware/firmware solutions.

• Concurrently manage multiple priorities monitoring progress and quality.

• Provide timely communications on significant issues, risks, or developments.

• Participate in technical design reviews.

• May work with customers (internal and external) to create product specifications.

• Work with system engineers in system decomposition, allocating functions to hardware/firmware or software as required.

• Do detailed embedded/digital hardware designs.

• Create verification/validation and qualification test plans.

• Work closely with the broader engineering team (ECAD/MCAD/Software) to create optimum hardware/firmware/software solutions.

• Perform sample procurement and board debug/bring up.

• Perform or review V&V and qualification tests.

• Work closely with the Mechanical/Software peers to ensure developments meet the requirements.

Qualifications and Skills

Degree qualified (preference for Electrical Engineering) with exposure to working with embedded / industrial products.

Essential:

• Keen interest in design, in particular embedded products for industrial/automotive environments.

• Electronic design tools (Altium preferred) experience.

Desired:

• Knowledge of product regulatory compliance for markets RCM, CE, FCC.

• Knowledge of engineering V model

• Production engineering, design for test, tester design and maintenance.

Special Requirements

Business Acumen:

• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems.

• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts.

• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices.

• Willingness to negotiate and align stakeholders.

• Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders.

• Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to help make buy vs build recommendations

Leadership:

• Ability to takes ownership of tasks and deliver

• Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale.

• Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions.

• Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results

• Identifies misalignments with goals, objectives, and work direction against the organizational strategy, making suggestions to course correct

• Continuously measures deliverables of self against scheduled commitments, whilst effectively balancing different competing objectives

Personal Attributes:

• Strong oral and written communication skills.

• Curiosity to learn.

• Strong interpersonal skills.

• Effective problem-solving abilities.

• Determined and resilient. Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit.

• Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks.

Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the world's toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the world's brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles…people like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.