Senior Project Engineer - Mechanical

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.

Who will you be working with?

Our Global Engineering Operations team provides overall guidance and support to the Wabtec Engineering ecosystem for operational best practices, improvements, and tools, to provide the best in class engineered deliverables/products with regard to safety, quality, delivery, cost and talent for the business.  On our team, you'll interact daily with engineering and cross-functional leaders across the company to improve the engineering operational skillset and experiences at Wabtec.

How will you make a difference?

The Senior Project Engineer will have full responsibility for leading engineering operations projects of medium to high complexity from proposal through completion to increase effectiveness (safety, quality, efficiency, and cost) of the Freight Equipment and Services, Transit, and Digital Intelligence engineering teams.  They will need to work with engineering teams to develop engineering solutions while working cross functionally with manufacturing, IT, sourcing, and services to prepare for integration of the engineering solutions into their environments (if needed).  This role will be expected to act as a leader and an individual contributor as part of a project team and ensure the team understands and fulfills their responsibilities.  They will also need to provide technical expertise to integrate engineering developments into manufacturing and services environments. The primary focus for this role will be on the engineering operations/processes/deliverables of all mechanical (fabrication, machining, and mechanical assembly) systems that Wabtec engineering teams develop.

What do we want to know about you?

• BS degree in an Engineering discipline from accredited technical college or university.

• 8-10 years of engineering development and/or engineering operations experience

• 3-5 years of project engineering/management experience

• Knowledge and demonstrated ability to lead projects from proposal through completion.

• Knowledge and demonstrated application of mechanical engineering design/simulation tools.

• Knowledge and demonstrated practical application of integrating engineering solutions into manufacturing and service processes/environments.

• Intermediate to Advance skills with Microsoft office applications (Excel, Power BI, SharePoint)

What will your typical day look like?

• Provide project and technical leadership of cross functional team members involved in the assigned engineering operations projects to meet engineering, customer, and overall project requirements
• Help cross-functional team members develop and integrate solutions when needed
• Provide subject matter expertise in mechanical designs/assemblies and leadership for personnel involved in your assigned project(s) as needed to ensure project deliverables are met
• Coordinate and own integration plans that are developed for the assigned projects.
• Provide structured engineering and cross functional updates of projects status including scope, schedule, budget, risks, challenges, solutions, etc.
• Attend and support cross functional development a