Hardware Design Engineer (473407)

Req ID: 473407

Location: Mansfield

Appointment Basis: Permanent

Salary: c.£50K + Benefits (Dependent on Experience)

Closing Date: 31st January 2025

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, more than 80 000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Could you be our Hardware Design Engineer in Mansfield we’re looking for at Alstom?

Your future role

Take on a new challenge in Mansfield and apply your Hardware Design Engineering expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll report to the Head of Engineering and work alongside a dedicated and passionate Services team in Alstom UK&I. 

Day-to-day, you’ll to provide ‘timely’ Hardware engineering design for a range of electronics systems on a daily basis, to meet agreed/planned deadlines in line with commitments to customer base. Ensure high standards of Hardware engineering for Health & Safety, right first time, efficiency, cost, innovation and service level are consistently achieved. Support delivery of improved product margins. Provide fast resolution to any Hardware engineering issues identified and support good levels of communication throughout business. Raise overall standards in Hardware engineering performance using best practice Hardware design methods and continuous improvement (CI) tools. We’ll look to you to the following:

• Responsibility for Hardware engineering design for a range of electronics systems ‘on-time’, safely and to the correct specification and quality standards.
• Deliver cost efficient Hardware engineering designs in-line with budget levels.
• To ensure best practice Hardware engineering standards are adopted & continuously improved, with careful consideration to obsolescence management.
• To ensure full compliance with UK Health and Safety Regulations.
• To ensure full compliance with ALSTOM Electronics quality standards.
• Ensure KPI targets for RFT, efficiency, cost and service are consistently achieved.
• To adhere to all deadlines and targets set by Engineering Manager.
• Establish good working relationships and communication throughout the business.
• Reporting of Health and Safety / HR issues to the Engineering Manager on a timely basis.

Performance Standards pertaining to the role:

• Zero LTA’s, RFT >95% & on-time delivery >95%.  100% compliance with design regs.
• Delivery to agreed/planned timescales, cost constraints & quality standards.

All 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: 

• A good understanding of Electronics hardware 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.
• The individual 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.

Things you’ll enjoy

Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:

• Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
• Contribute to innovative projects
• Utilise our agile working environment
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive benefits (pension, life ins., medical)

Equal opportunity statement:

Alstom is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected.  All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.  

As a “disability confident leader accredited employer”, we will interview all disabled job applicants who match the essential criteria of the job description or specification. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise. 

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