Job Type: Full-Time Location: LaGrange, IL Post Date: 01/28/2010
Job Description: Key Job Elements: - Lead overall technical development of locomotive models on projects driven by market demands for feature enhancements, reliability improvements, and customer extras; - Work in a broad cross functional environment interfacing and negotiating with the commercial parts of the organization, project management, the multi-disciplinary engineering organization, operations, and the supplier community; - Clarify and negotiate customer requirements. Develop, release, and maintain technical specifications; - Estimate resources required to execute a project, and work with project management to develop work plans and schedules; - Create and develop new design concepts managing technical integration of the product during development. Product design solutions must be balanced to meet the objectives of reliability, performance, and cost, while meeting budget, project cost, and schedule constraints; - Oversee and audit end product verification through customer acceptance testing; - Create and develop project work breakdown structures. Qualifications Required: - BS in Engineering - At least 8 years of experience relating to the design of diesel electric locomotives or of products with similar systemic complexities; - Broad multi-disciplinary technical background in the development of systems with a strong interest in discovery of creative solutions; - Knowledge of Systems Engineering principles including requirements definition and allocation, design of alternatives, and verification of a product to requirements; - Excellent communication skills; - Excellent organizational skills working in a team environment.
Qualification Preferred: - MS in Engineering - Knowledge of Railroad Electronics and implementation a plus; - Ability to use Unigraphics solid modeling and or UG/MX a plus; - Knowledge of DOORS requirements management tool a plus. We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
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