Job Title: Traction & Rolling Stock Design Manager
Contract dates: Immediate
Location: Derby
Length of Contract: 26 Weeks

Rate: Neg

This exciting role offers an opportunity to provide technical innovation within Siemens.

Working as part of a close-knit team the Design Manager will have an area of specialism and a wide knowledge of our industry especially regarding retrofit design solutions. The Design Manager will work within the on-board train fitment design team to ensure the design requirements on the projects are correctly captured and delivered. The Design Manager will also work with the various Centres of Competence, technology teams and subject matter experts across the wider Siemens business to develop solutions that meet these needs.

The Design Manager role is a key role within the project environment, with involvement in a wide range of project activities throughout the whole project lifecycle. This role provides the opportunity to travel both in the UK and overseas, ensuring an international flavour to your knowledge base and, over time, establish a rounded career in a global railway industry.

Key Accountabilities
• Will take a lead role in liaison with and supervision of third-party design companies to ensure projects are progressed to an agreed programme and technical issues are addressed.
• Will provide leadership to in-house design activities
• Will produce programme updates and monthly reports to both internal and external groups
• Will be required to initiate and facilitate industry wide design reviews and briefings
• Will work closely with the engineering team members in the UK and Germany, project groups, the lines of business and heads of technology throughout Siemens, to ensure that the project design solutions meet our customers’ needs now, and in the future.
• Will take a lead role in the wider stakeholder management associated with large industry projects
• Provide key input and ideas to help determine the most appropriate technical, product and commercial solutions within the given geographical and technical environment.
• Ensure innovation and value engineering is applied to all proposals.
• A key player within the project organisation.

Measures
• Ease of mobilisation
• Key member of the project team
• Effective project delivery

Specific Skills/Tasks
Essential:
• Experience of managing installation design teams, both in-house and external, in a railway environment
• In depth practical knowledge and experience of implementing retrofit design solutions for systems such as ETCS, CBTC, TPWS, AWS, GSM-R, DAS etc
• The application design of standard hardware in an on-train environment and documentation of the application design for train carried systems.
• Experience of leading/participating in vehicle surveys to ensure sufficient information is gathered to facilitate the production of installation designs.
• In depth knowledge of depot procedures and site safety.
• An understanding of the approvals process required to modify a train and bring it back into service.
• Read and review requirements, creating written comments and attending reviews as required.
• Review engineering data for completeness and consistency.
• Review product installation designs to ensure adherence to guidelines and installation constraints
• Previous experience in liaising with subcontractors throughout the whole project lifecycle.
• Must be willing to fill gaps in own knowledge and experience through taking a pro-active approach to learning and seeking information from within and outside the company.
• Demonstrates customer focus in all work carried out.
• Experience of working to industry quality and safety standards.
• Strong and effective communicator at all levels within the business and in front of new and existing customers.
• Demonstrates innovative and creative thinking when performing problem solving initiatives.
• Highly motivated, dependable and self-reliant.
• To work throughout the world

Qualifications:
• Proven experience of this type of role within the rail industry

Desirable:
• Specific knowledge of implementing ETCS and/or CBTC systems
• Proven track record in working in major Sub-contract environments.
• Experience of working with CAD systems.