Electrical & ETCS Systems Engineer

Electrical & ETCS Systems Engineer
-Derby, UK About us
At the heart of the rail network for over three decades, Porterbrook is the UK's leading rolling stock financier and asset management company with 4000 vehicles in our diverse portfolio of passenger and freight trains.
By working together with our partners, we deliver high-quality, agile rolling stock solutions that ensure the railway remains safe, reliable, sustainable and fit for the future.
We don't just provide trains - we provide a customer-focused platform for long-term success. Since 1994, Porterbrook has invested over 4bn in new rolling stock including 1bn of capital in new trains, fleet upgrades, traction innovation and rail infrastructure in the last five years.
With our strategic and empathetic funding solutions, we're actively looking to invest a further 1bn in the years ahead.
About the team
We have over 100 engineers and fleet support staff working directly on our passenger fleets, alongside experienced key relationship managers with a deep understanding of our customers' needs and expectations on their existing fleets, and investment in new rolling stock.
About the role
A great opportunity for an exceptional Electrical & ETCS Systems Engineer, to join the Porterbrook team.

Key responsibilities:

• Act as Porterbrook's centre of expertise for electrical & ETCS systems on Traction & rolling-stock
• Lead or support technical investigations into equipment failures, support complex warranty claims and joint investigations. This will involve attendance and witnessing issues etc at manufacturing sites and depots from time to time, occasionally outside office hours.
• Act as a technical project partner for allocated projects (ie. complex or innovative projects), in support of wider business objectives
• Lead internal technical consultancy work streams, including the management and coordination of external consultants and suppliers, to deliver technical services to the business. Ensure that staff, consultants and contractors working under your direction have appropriate technical competencies to undertake their work.
• Lead and act as project manager for assigned work streams with an electrical systems focus as identified by the business, to meet safety, quality, cost and timescale requirements.
• Investigate assigned National Incident Reports and identify, lead and manage appropriate remedial actions. These would normally be NIRs/PIRs that cover multiple fleets, fleets owned by other asset owners or those that have a complex technical bias
• Support Fleet Platform Strategy team in delivering strategic fleet solutions
• Maintain market awareness of new products & developments, and evaluate on behalf of the wider business.
• Build relationships with existing suppliers and any new players in the supply chain, and monitor the quality of products and engineering activities including site visits as required.
• Lead or support product development and obsolescence management when the need is identified by the Fleet Services team, the Engineering Services team or the wider business, including supporting formulation of business cases
• Support and provide input to Porterbrook's Digital Services team, in their provision of analytics, artificial intelligence and remote condition monitoring system development as appropriate
• Attend, inform or support on specific technical work streams as required, including internal forums such as Technical Committee or Project review meetings
• Regularly report on progress on owned work streams, including updates for Engineering Services team meetings
• Lead and review as appropriate engineering change proposals raised by suppliers, customers or internally
• Represent Porterbrook at relevant cross-industry forums and working groups, leading & managing as designated
• Awareness of business metrics such as company wide KPIs, and contribute to their achievement
• Promote and support a culture of safety at all times and in all work locations

Other Duties:

• Coordinate and monitor the activities of external consultants and suppliers working under your direction to ensure that the output being achieved is at an acceptable level and to safety, quality, cost and timescale…