Lead Electrical Packaging Design Engineer
Wabtec

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company's new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com.

It's not just about your career... or your job title...it's about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters...do things that haven't been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the mechanical design and equipment packaging for aux cab and control groups for locomotive applications. This work will include the following sets of activities:
• Determining design requirements and equipment needs to support the various locomotive subsystems.
• Developing equipment arrangements for control and power electronic devices, working closely with electrical integration on cabling and harness layouts.
• Designing cab sheet metal structure to incorporate equipment installations, working closely with cabs and platform teams on required interfaces.
• Supporting design of control and power electronic devices and panels, busbars, inverter components, and related equipment.
• Lead and execute requisition projects, including design, structural analysis, validation, and production launch of control groups and aux cabs.
• Close integration with internal and external sheet metal and light fabrication vendors, addressing product change requests, quality concerns, and shop support.
• Support manufacturing and supply chain with aux cab and CA1 builds.
• Support manufacturing and supply chain to achieve high levels of manufacturability and manage drawing and model updates to address issues or implement improvements.
• Responsible for defined work or projects with moderate to high complexity. Follow an individual work plan and meet day-to-day short-term objectives. Display the ability to resolve issues through immediate action or short-term planning.
• Support multiple work assignments by establishing, maintaining, and working to proper priorities.
• Prepare and present technical data to internal and external customers.
• Document and communicate results of technical data generated.
• Participate on teams assigned to address specific organizational initiatives.
• Share information and promote open dialogue.
• Prepare invention disclosures to protect the technology that provides a competitive advantage to the business.
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field.
• Three (3) plus years demonstrated experience in the field of mechanical engineering, with relevant experience on electrical or electro-mechanical devices.
• Experience and demonstrated proficiency with:
• Designing sheet metal enclosures for control and power electronic equipment arrangement. Knowledge of packaging requirements related to high voltage equipment.
• Designing cast and molded components.
• Design of machined and fabricated components.
• Experience with heat transfer through conduction, natural convection, and forced convection applications and related techniques for electronics.
• 3D CAD Modeling tools.
• Finite element simulation tools for mechanical loads, such as Ansys.
• Ability to travel 10% of the time.
• Must be able to work in and around large pieces of ground transportation equipment, in a heavy industrial manufacturing setting, and in a heavy industrial laboratory environment.
• Must be able to set up instrumentation and test apparatus and conduct validation testing on large industrial transportation and mining vehicles.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.

Desired:

• MS Mechanical Engineering degree.
• Proficient in Unigraphics, ANSYS, Icepak, CFD fluid and thermal analysis skills, Matlab software tools
• Familiarity with power diodes and IGBT devices and packaging design considerations in large equipment inverter arrangements.
• Knowledge of voltage isolation and current conduction in buss bars, terminals and connectors.
• Experience with air cooled heat sink design and heat spreaders.
• Demonstrated knowledge of statistical analysis or Six Sigma certified.

Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the world's toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the world's brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles...people like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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