Designer, Hardware Application Design, Senior
Location: Toronto
Contract Duration: 4 months
We at Raise are hiring a Designer, Hardware Application Design, Senior for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand.
Description
- To produce complex Hardware Application designs/Bookwirings and equipment designs that meet requirements utilizing processes based on established engineering and railway signaling principles.
Responsibilities
Technical:
- Demonstrates a high degree of initiative, and resourcefulness in solving problems.
- Good understanding of SelTrac Signal Plans and SelTrac Radio equipment.
- Good knowledge of Railway infrastructure and deployment of trackside and equipment room assets within greenfield and brownfield deployments.
- Demonstrates an advanced level of logical reasoning resulting in effective hardware application designs, products and processes.
- Interprets and writes Requirements that provide traceability from high level customer designs to low level detailed design elements.
- Proficient in technical writing of technical design specifications, scope of works (SoWs) and requests for proposals (RFQs).
- High degree of familiarity with CENELEC and AREMA standards.
- Prepares specifications for hardware and/or software components.
- Proficient with the use of development tools, CAD packages (Microstation, AutoCAD).
- Selects an appropriate design approach.
- Maximizes the use of existing product designs.
- Possesses or has the ability to gain the Hitachi Competency Management System (CMS) Designer or Principles license.
Project Management:
- When required, perform the role of a Work Package Manager on projects, collaborating with a team of 1 to 5 Designers.
- Assist with project-related tasks, such as planning timelines and tracking budgets to ensure project goals are met.
- Keeping track of progress on all tasks assigned to the SID project team.
- Ensuring that all project tasks proceed according to schedule, within budget, and in accordance with all requirements.
- Ensure that all project deliverables are completed accurately and on time (as per project schedule).
- Carry out all assigned work efficiently, with a minimum of supervision.
- Generating accurate, supportable estimates for current departmental technology and providing estimates for technologies that are new to the department.
- Intimate understanding of Hitachi Work Instructions and the Chorus process.
Requirements
- Post-secondary Technologist diploma or Electrical or Electronics Engineering degree.
- 7-10 years of related work experience.
- Proficient with the use of CAD tools (Microstation, AutoCad), Bills of Materials (SAP), Configuration Management, Hitachi Change Control Process (Clearquest), and Microsoft Office suite.
- Good interpersonal and diplomatic skills to deal confidently, courteously, and correctly with people at any level within the organization, and the customer.
- Well-developed verbal skills in English to interact effectively and professionally in a variety of forums.
- Well-developed writing skills in English to prepare clear effective documents.
Soft Skills:
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Mentor junior or new members of the department.
- Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the job and in relations with others.
Aptitude:
- Locating and researching source documentation for design activities.
- Making timely decisions, both independently and in concert with others.
- Identify problems or inefficiencies in the department’s operation and suggest improvements.
Position Requirements
- Schedule: Monday – Friday, 40 hours per week
- Physical Environment: Office environment
- Travel: Occasional travels including site/vendors, training and conferences, as required (both domestic and international)
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Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.
We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.
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