Acara is looking for a Parts and Components Electrical Engineer with our client in Mississauga, ON.
Role Description:
As a Parts and Components Electrical Engineer, what are my responsibilities?
As the Parts and Components Electrical Engineer, you will apply your electrical and electronic knowledge to design, verify and validate parts solutions when OEM parts have become obsolete. You will reverse engineer or develop obsolescence solutions, work on system overhaul proposals, and develop technical documentation for suppliers to meet FFF specifications and requirements. You will provide assembly/repair instructions, and new design drawings, develop all the required documentation, create or update engineering change orders, and review vendor technical proposals to ensure compliance with specifications and product safety.
You will actively participate and contribute to the aggressive growth of the Parts & Components business. You will support a customer outreach program to proactively generate business opportunities.
Responsibilities:
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Ensure all the parts proposal will be meeting the customer specifications in form, fit and function, railway safety, reliability, industrial norms, and standards.
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Be thoroughly familiar with the project specification and its requirements relating to the electrical design tasks associated with the parts requested.
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Prepare electrical and interface schematics, drawings, and documentation of assigned systems and meet deliverable schedule.
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Coordinate and lead efforts with vendors to confirm compliance with customer requirements. You will interface with the end customer and vendors to ensure compliance and validity of the design.
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Maintain your knowledge of rail and electrical-electronic norms and standards such as FRA, AAR, IEEE, ANSI etc.
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Provide electrical drawings, bills of material, detailed work scope, assembly and testing instructions for parts, equipment, and printed circuit boards as needed.
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Work on bids proposals to repair, redesign, and overhaul electrical equipment, printed circuit boards and in general electrical and electronics parts used in the rail industry.
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Provide instructions to drafters and designers for the development and preparation of schematics, layouts, assembly, and detail drawings. Provide engineering support during the production of the part, specify and select electrical or electronic components to be applied in the parts.
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Provide customer technical support as needed.
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Operate in the ALSTOM CCB Change Control Board
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Lead Design Reviews and Gate Reviews for electrical parts.
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You will work in multi-disciplinary teams with Customers, Rolling Stock Engineering, Project Management, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Auditors, Platform (Tenders, Reference Library, REX), Quality, Validation and Testing.
What do I need to qualify for this job?
Have experience in rail industry standards and design or with similar industry products such as transportation vehicles, and/or high-low voltage equipment, and discrete electronic components. Have experience in preparing procurement specifications and technical requirements from customer specifications to drive the design of the parts requested. Understanding of engineering design change process, basic design for manufacturing, GD&T, etc
Candidate must be versatile, very autonomous, with hands-on experience, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment in unclear and ill-defined environments, and resourceful in finding information through multiple forms of communication.
Minimum Qualifications
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University or Technical College degree in Railway Engineering, Electronics, Automation Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
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5 years of industry-related experience.
Preferred Qualifications
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Knowledge of rolling stock systems and components.
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Knowledge of safety management systems and safety risk assessment.
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Proficient in the use of electrical/electronic design tools, MS Office, PDM, SAP, GSI, and Maximo (other ERP tools).
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Knowledge of Alstom Design for Quality processes.
Required Skills / Qualifications:
Preferred Skills / Qualifications:
Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, sex, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. The Aleron companies welcome and encourage applications from diverse candidates, including people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for applicants taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
