MAINTENANCE FIELD ENGINEER

MAINTENANCE FIELD ENGINEER

Hitachi Solutions Europe

Job Description

Project Description (IF APPLICABLE)Very High-Speed Trains FleetsAccountabilities

• Assure the RAM data collection in the service operation of the vehicles, defining the data records structure according to the Contractual requirements
• With the support of the System Support Engineering, assure a detailed Vehicle Management and control of changes to the vehicle/product configuration, ensuring the correct traceability of the status of each vehicle, creating the Maintained Configuration.
• Manage infrastructure-based systems (MRX, PanMon, Gotcha, etc.) to ensure any notifications or maintenance alerts are received and develop means of using this data to support condition-based maintenance. Work towards integration with SAP and Verdict systems
• Provide performance analysis and recommendations for improvements for both internal and external stakeholders relating to engineering support IT systems
• Assure the support to S&M Bid & Proposal defining the own budget for any new bidding initiative
• Updating of spare par lists issued by the S&M Bid & Proposal and detailed by the Mobilization Engineering according to the maintenance plan and the RAM analyses, and the service operation experience
• Conducting level of repair analysis (LORA) to define efficient and cost-effective corrective maintenance, also providing feedback to Rolling Stock Design Engineering and S&M Standards & Training for standards modifications.
• Support to maintenance operation in the troubleshooting and management of maintenance activities, analyzing any technical issue, and suggesting the necessary corrective action according to the System Support Engineering indication.
• Prepare the technical specification for any depot tool, interfacing with the suppliers, arrange the design review, and coordinate the installation, the test, and the commissioning with the support of  Operations HSE e Operations.
• With the support of S&M Standard & Training, the maintainers in the depot provided the training.
• Realize failure analysis for extra warranty (both vs. customer and supplier)
• Validate the Maintenance Manual
• Validate the Telediagnostic messages
• Responsible for reporting maintenance and safety defects, operational events, and failures.
• Responsible for presenting operational data returning from the exercise (RAM data) to the Customer.
• In charge of ensuring the implementation of maintenance plans at the depot level and in the external sites, from the commissioning phase
• Responsible for supporting Project Team activities through on-field analyses. This includes:
  • Supporting S&M Standards & Training in engineering procedures and practices development
  • Optimizing the execution of maintenance regimes and assisting Maintenance Optimization in the development of optimized maintenance practices in support of current and future contracts
  • performing minor modifications on components and hardware related to materials or processes
• In charge of supporting all the S&M Operations delivery continuous improvement programs – also through  the collection and management of operating data returning from the exercise of vehicles – to ensure contractual requirements are achieved and exceeded
• Responsible for ensuring support to S&M Procurement and S&M Operations during the assessment and approval of new/second source suppliers so that engineering and quality needs are adequately identified and addressed
• Responsible for supporting S&M Quality control function in reporting component or train failures, also assessing component reparability and related safety risk

Requirement

• Experience in performing the accountabilities mentioned above as dictated in the section above
• Bachelor of Mechanical or Electrical/Electronic Engineer or technical degree required preferably in electrical, mechanical, or systems engineering
• Minimum 2 years of railway vehicles maintenance engineering application experience
• Previous work in the railway maintenance sector, with particular focus on maintenance plan optimization, complex troubleshooting, and RAMS analysis
• Willing to take on significant challenges with large-scale Regional projects
• Able to perform vehicle system analysis
• Ability to interpret contract specification
• Ability to read, understand and interpret drawing, schematics, and cable plans
• Availability to a short trip, typically lasting some days, for most of the time (i.e., more than 60%)

Desired Skills

• Previous experience in Maintenance Field engineering on railway fleets
• Basic working knowledge of Rail Train Subsystem such as Automatic Train Supervision, Vehicle, Telecommunication, STB, Pneumatic brake, traction converter, HVAC, etc.
• Basic understanding of software configuration management (CM)
• Basic understanding of software programming logic
• Basic working knowledge of statistical analysis program
• Operation and Maintenance Processes
• Previous experience on ECM projects and Homologation planning
• Railway Operations and Signaling principles
• Planning and organization
• Spare part analysis, definition, and forecast set up according to the return of experience
• Design to maintain and continuous improvement willingness and attitude

Education / QualificationsElectrical, Electronic, Mechanical Engineering or System Engineering Qualifications/Associate Degree or equivalent technical background.LanguagesEnglish ProficiencyAverage Salary: €4,880

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