Power Engineer

We are a multinational group with over 100 years of experience in the supply of comprehensive transit solutions positioned at the forefront of technology for high value-added sustainable mobility.

The company is a leader of the railway industry offering one of the most comprehensive and flexible arrays of products in railway related markets, such as rolling stock, components, infrastructure, signalling and services (maintenance, refurbishing and financial services).

The Power Engineer will be involved in all technical activities necessary to ensure the Power Converter design is compliant to customer requirements and applicable law and standards, managing sub-suppliers equipment , integration and the verification and validation of the solutions. He/She will actively take part in the design enhancements needed to solve problems that arise during production, testing and commissioning.

The Power Engineer will be involved mainly with the Train Propulsion System.

For this purpose, He/She will work together with the Headquarters and the rest of Indian Team, as well as with Procurement, SQA, Manufacturing and Testing teams; dealing with sub-suppliers for managing and monitoring their system design.

KEY RESPONSABILITIES:

• Validate/homologate and follow-up activities of the power components/equipment suppliers throughout the entire lifecycle of the tender + projects.

• Lead the technical interface between the power component/equipment supplier and the rest of the team involve in the project: engineering team, quality, testing, approvals, purchasing and project management.
• Collaborate with Electromechanics in mechanical equipment design.
• Represent CAF in face of the train integrator, the final customer and the approval authority during the design (e.g. design reviews) and validation phases (e.g. testing activities).
• Undertake design validation activities related to the Propulsion system with main focus on the Traction Converter and its integration with the others equipment, and ensure the design is compliant with the System Specification.
• Follow-up pending issues to sort out the problems that arise during testing and commissioning activities.
• Manage all technical documentation applicable to the Traction Converter (technical description, functional description, test procedures, configuration list ). And link it with Requirement Management.
• Be fully familiar and conversant with department and company policies, procedures and processes, ensuring all work and actions undertaken are in full compliance with them.
• Project follow up and reporting to Focal Points and Project Management.
• Proactively working to contribute to a continuous improvement culture, raising opportunities for improvement whenever these are identified.
• Validate the traction equipment in Factory and in field
• Be familiar with a scripting language (for example, Python)
• Must be able to interpret electrical diagrams for problem solving and use CAF P&A's SW tools for incidence diagnosis and SW updates.
• Define tests to be able to diagnose the faults and be able to give feedback/make proposals to the engineering department in order to improve the product.

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS:

Qualification:

• BE/BTech in Electrical Engineering

Professional Experience:

• Experienced (a minimum of 3 years) in railway sector in Power engineering, or testing.
• Valued Master in Power Electronics.
• Desirable knowledge on Traction Converters design
• Desirable experience in dealing with Indian Railways and RDSO.
• Desirable knowledge on SW development process.

Basic Skills:

• Very good interpersonal and organization skills, open minded, excellent abilities for teamwork, proactivity, proven level of autonomy.

• Good knowledge of MS Office tools.
• Experience in requirement Management with DOORs.
• Language: High English language skills, both written and spoken.
• Availability for frequent travelling within India and also to Headquarters in Spain.

Languages:

• Business English level is mandatory

• Spanish, as alternative, would be very favourably considered.