Hardware Design Engineer
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Job description
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 Hardware design methods and continuous improvement (CI) tools.
We'll look to you for the following:
- 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.
- To ensure full compliance with UK Health and Safety Regulations.
- To ensure full compliance with ALSTOM Electronics quality standards.
- Ensure KPI targets for Right First Time (RFT), efficiency, cost and service are consistently achieved.
Requirements
We value passion and attitude over experience. That's why we don't expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we've listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:
- A good understanding of Electronics analogue & digital design disciplines, together with Health and Safety and quality standards is required
- Substantial Electronics hardware design experience within a relevant electronics business, using best practice design methods, value engineering and CI techniques.
- Education in Electronics Engineering to Degree level or equivalent.
- Must be a "driven", well disciplined, logical thinking, self motivated, team player, able to communicate at all levels and above all be highly "innovative" in delivering high standards in Electronics hardware design.
- Excellent standards of Electronics hardware design, technical ability, communication.
- Personal discipline, Health & Safety, time management, problem solving and continuous improvement.
- A high level of customer focus is critical.