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About Wabtec Australia

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global supplier of equipment, systems, digital solutions and related services for the freight and transit rail industry. The company leverages its vast experience and expertise from Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport to deliver unmatched digital capabilities, technological advancements, and world-class manufacturing and services.

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Your role

This graduate engineering role will involve supporting the design and development of Digital Mine Technology (DMT) products. The focus will be on hardware and firmware for both above-ground and underground mining applications.

The technology used is specific to the mining domain and combines software, firmware, and hardware components. These products are designed for integration into mining vehicles and machinery to enable Collision Awareness Systems (CAS). The successful candidate will collaborate with mechanical and software engineers and will be located at the DMT production facility. They will be expected to provide electronic production support when necessary.

DMT is committed to delivering value to its customers and stakeholders through a transformational journey that emphasizes timely, budget-conscious, and high-quality products.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the broader engineering team to create optimum hardware/firmware solutions
• Concurrently manage multiple priorities monitoring progress and quality
• Provide timely communications on significant issues, risks, or developments
• Participate in technical design reviews
• May work with customers (internal and external) to create product specifications
• Work with system engineers in system decomposition, allocating functions to hardware/firmware or software as required
• Do detailed embedded/digital hardware designs
• Create verification/validation and qualification test plans
• Work closely with the broader engineering team (ECAD/MCAD/Software) to create optimum hardware/firmware/software solutions
• Perform sample procurement and board debug/bring up
• Perform or review V&V and qualification tests
• Work closely with the Mechanical/Software peers to ensure developments meet the requirements

Training & development

Wabtec prioritizes investing in its employees' growth. The company recognizes the potential of its workforce and offers them the tools necessary to become future leaders. Through comprehensive training and development programs, Wabtec empowers its employees to transition from their current roles to leadership positions.

Company culture

Recognizing the importance of diversity and inclusion, Wabtec actively seeks individuals with a wide range of backgrounds, skills, and perspectives. The company believes that such diversity fosters a more creative environment and ultimately leads to better solutions for its customers.

About you

Qualifications and Skills

Degree qualified (preference for Electrical Engineering) with exposure to working with embedded / industrial products.

• Essential:
  • Keen interest in design, in particular embedded products for industrial/automotive environments.
  • Electronic design tools (Altium preferred) experience.
• Desired:
  • Knowledge of product regulatory compliance for markets RCM, CE, FCC.
  • Knowledge of engineering V model
  • Production engineering, design for test, tester design and maintenance.

Special Requirements

• Business Acumen:
  • Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
  • Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
  • Has the ability to analyze the impact of technology choices
  • Willingness to negotiate and align stakeholders
  • Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders
  • Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to help make buy vs build recommendations
• Leadership:
  • Ability to take ownership of tasks and deliver 
  • Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale
  • Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions
  • Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results
  • Identifies misalignments with goals, objectives, and work direction against the organizational strategy, making suggestions to course-correct
  • Continuously measures deliverables of self against scheduled commitments, whilst effectively balancing different competing objectives 
• Personal Attributes:
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Curiosity to learn
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Effective problem-solving abilities
  • Determined and resilient. Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit
  • Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks

Source

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• wabteccorp.com/careers