Purpose of the Job
The Field Operations Engineer takes in charge the technical choices for the installation of a signaling system on board of a railway vehicle or trackside. He belongs to the Field Operations Engineering team and functionally reports to the Project Field Operation Manager for projects in charge.
Objectives / responsibilities
Development of an installation technical file :
The quality of the installation depends on the following criteria :
- Compliance to the installation technical constraints for the objects to be installed
- The ease and quickness to install the objects
- The homologability of the file and the activities related to the file
- The genericity of the solutions implemented
The installation file development includes several phases :
- Identification of the constraints linked with the system and the objects
- Identification of the environment features (survey)
- Choice of the installation concepts
- Choice of the installation components (connectors, support, conduits, etc)
- Follow-up of the drawings / schematics composition
- Development of the methods and choices of the tools necessary for the installation execution,
identification of the “gamme opératoire” - Composition of the file
- Follow-up of the execution on a first installation (FoC) and adjustments
- Technical follow-up during the roll-out
- Write documents (installation files) allowing to distribute the technical information for execution teams on field.
- Coordinate the stakeholders participating in the installation technical file (designers, engineers, project managers) in order to organize the activities
- Establish and use the control and monitoring tools allowing to evaluate the quality of the installation activity on the non-recurrent costs, recurrent costs and installability performance point of view (e.g. installation hours, train immobilization duration).
- Insure technical relationship with an installation subcontractor whenever the execution is subcontracted or whenever the installation file is subcontracted to external company (technical support to and control of subcontractor activities).
- Provide support for tender activity for installation and commissioning for the signaling systems :
- Technical support for the answer to the customer specification concerning installation and commissioning
- Cost estimation for the installation and commissioning activities
- Participate to the development of tools and methods linked with installation and commissioning activities in order to improve the installation and commissioning global process.
Education: Engineering Degree (Master equivalent or above) within a technical cursus : electricity, electronics, electro-mechanics or equivalent experience in industrial environment.
- Largely multidisciplinary and polyvalent profile (mechanics, electric)
Competencies :
- Basic knowledge in development of methods and « gammes operatoires »
- Knowledge in computer science allowing to use standard informatic tools (reports) and also possibility to learn specific tools linked with the metier.
- Technical knowledge of the railway world
- Ability to work with remote contacts in a multidisciplinary context.
- Ability to be the representative of the company for our customers
- Rigorous, reliable, autonomous
Language skills:
- Good knowledge of English language allowing to collaborate within a technical world
- German language knowledge is an asset
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