Lead Mechanical Engineer

2 days ago


Derby, Derby, United Kingdom Alstom Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Mechanical Engineer to join our team at Alstom. As a Mechanical Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing mechanical systems for our railway products.

Your Key Responsibilities

  • Design and develop mechanical systems for railway products, ensuring compliance with QCD commitments.
  • Plan and pilot mechanical domain activities and related deliverables on projects, taking into account applicable instructions, processes, and customer requirements.
  • Ensure mechanical domain deliverables meet quality standards and are accepted by customers within committed limits.
  • Report on mechanical domain activities progress and alert relevant stakeholders in case of issues impacting QCD commitments.
  • Define requirements and mechanical interfaces to equipment, ensuring allocated volumes, weights, and locations are respected.
  • Monitor assigned mechanical sub-system deliveries for conformity with project needs.
  • Apply train design rules, processes, and tools to ensure mechanical domain deliverables meet quality standards.
  • Manage production of deliverables in accordance with planning targets on mechanical domain assigned work packages.
  • Design products taking into account project requirements, including performances, manufacturability, serviceability, testability, and more.
  • Prepare and document mechanical domain design reviews according to project schedule and follow up on main open actions.
  • Check respect of allocated volumes/interfaces on internal design.
  • Resolve project mechanical issues and follow challenging actions.
  • Define mitigation plans covering risks identified on project mechanical domain scope.
  • Report on mechanical domain activities progress, anticipating issues and alerting if needed.
  • Respect and/or allocate requirements and mechanical interfaces to sub-systems/equipments.
  • Coordinate mechanical domain contributors on projects.
  • Analyze and consolidate change request impacts on mechanical domain scope.
  • Produce mechanical domain deliverables, including RSAD L2 (Requirements), Validation Plan, and more.
  • Validate relevant mechanical domain deliverables and secure planning.
  • Verify design via mock-ups or simulations.
  • Define mitigation plans covering risks identified on project mechanical (multi-domains).
  • Perform quotation of engineering work package, upon request.
  • Define project mechanical decomposition (project breakdown structure (PBS)).
  • Define mechanical project/product preferred part list (3PL) delivery.
  • Support sourcing, industrialization, and manufacturing teams during production ramp-up.
  • Collaborate with domain lead for continuous improvement of the domain, including return on experience (RoE).
  • Define mechanical domain architecture taking into account weight, gauge, installation strategy, acoustics, eco-design, ergonomics, aerodynamics, and more.
  • Establish certification and validation plans for train design scope.
  • Check availability on time of work package input data and escalate if necessary.
  • Check supplier's and sub-contractor's design quality.

About You

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:

  • Mechanical engineering is preferably applied to railway products. Other sectors, such as automotive and aerospace, are also considered.
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills, including with third parties (customers).
  • Time management and reporting skills.
  • Sense of urgency/priority.
  • Customer and product focus.
  • Structured and organized with a hands-on approach.
  • English operational in read/writing and technical meetings.

What We Offer

We offer a highly competitive starting salary plus 25 days annual leave with the opportunity to increase this to 30 days. Healthcare, life assurance, an excellent company contributed pension scheme, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle.



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