TXM Recruit are working closely with a close client to recruit 2 x Electrical Systems Engineer’s. Your role is to Safely undertake electrical engineering activities to accomplish a successful completion to time, to budget and to the necessary standards. Determine requirements and implement solutions to satisfy customer demands and win future business.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

Safety

• Safety must always be a prime consideration and you are required to ensure that the safety of people, the environment and our products are never compromised.
• You have a responsibility under the Health & Safety at Work etc Act 1974 to take reasonable care of yourself and other persons that may be affected by your acts or omissions at work, secure the health, safety and welfare of your staff at work and protect, so far as is reasonable practicable, all others against risks to their health or safety arising from your work activities and those of their staff and ensure that your duties are discharged adequately. The responsibility to achieve the duty cannot be delegated. The tasks required to discharge them can be delegated; assistance and support can be obtained; but the responsibility remains with you

Key Roles

• Capture the requirements and design the electrical systems that satisfy customer and business demands as well as industry standards. This ranges from the top-level architecture (block diagrams and schematics) to the detailed component level. It may involve working with third parties to capture, agree and document technical requirement specifications. It may require the specification of catalogue equipment, creation and integration into designed systems. Or it might require a mixture of both approaches. This also includes designing or specifying the relevant test procedures.
• Act as design authority, and single point of contact, for the systems allocated to your care.
• Undertake the concept and detailed design of electrical and pneumatic schematics. Specify the equipment including cabling, relays, sensors etc – ensuring that it meets the necessary BS, EN and railway standards. Produce Bill of Materials (BoMs) to suit.
• Undertake Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) for the systems allocated to your care. Lead safety and reliability investigations, report outcomes and recommend solutions.
• Support the wider engineering and production team to resolve any issues arising from electrical systems. Support in configuration and commissioning of electrical systems.
• Validate and sign-off the work of others where this is within the bounds of your professional competence. Support the wider team to assist with the training and understanding of electrical systems.

Previous experience

Essential

• Experience of specifying, designing and working with high and low-voltage electrical equipment, in particular 3-phase drives and motors, DC-to-DC converters, rectifiers / inverters, and IGBTs.
• Sound knowledge and experience of power, traction and braking systems as applicable to railway rolling stock.
• Ability to analyse energy flows and the implications for power, current, voltage and component sizing etc.
• Ability to determine the control logic required for a given system and translate this into new electrical schematics.
• Ability to ‘reverse engineer’ an existing electrical schematic and analyse the logic.
• Ability to write Technical Requirement Specifications, Test Specifications and Test Procedures.

Desirable

• Experience of electrical and electronic systems in a railway environment.
• Experience of electro-pneumatic systems would be an advantage.
• Thorough working knowledge of Railway Group Standards and railway practice in general.
• Practical ‘hands-on’ experience.
• Experience of writing Work Instructions.
• Project engineering / project management experience.

Desired Personal Qualities / Attributes

• Positive, ‘can do’, flexible attitude. Self-sufficient. Delivers solutions.
• Practical, collegiate approach (team worker).
• Multi-tasker, works well under pressure.
• Willingness to travel.
• Takes decisions objectively based on sound technical arguments and proper analysis of all available facts.
• Can deal positively with situations where information is ‘not complete’.
• Can distil complex engineering issues into the key points in order for management to take informed decision.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree (with electrical bias), or equivalent qualification(s).
• Chartered Engineer (IET or former IEE), or actively working towards it.
• Passed category B driving licence.

This is a terrific opportunity for an experienced Electrical Systems Engineer. If you are suitable for the role and keen to learn more of the role, do send me your CV and I will be happy to phone to discuss further.