Design Engineer (Telecoms/Networks)

Hitachi Rail Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid role

Training & development

Flexible working

Job summary

Hitachi Rail Limited in London is seeking a Design Engineer to support telecoms and network solutions for London Underground projects. You will design buildable, compliant solutions and work with cross-functional teams to meet client needs.

The role focuses on IP/MPLS, DWDM, and multi-service networks, with responsibilities across design production, estimates, programs and work packages, while adhering to CDM regulations and project delivery processes.

Qualifications

• Experience with IP/MPLS and DWDM in telecoms environments.
• Knowledge of Nokia NSP and SDN concepts.
• Understanding of project delivery processes and CDM regulations.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into designs.
• Design solutions using industry best practices, processes and tools.
• Produce buildable, maintainable designs meeting customer requirements and standards.
• Identify technical debt and performance bottlenecks.
• Work with engineering disciplines to ensure delivery success.
• Follow project delivery processes and use defined tools.
• Escalate issues to the Senior Design Engineer when needed.
• Provide status reports to the Senior Design Engineer.

Skills

IP/MPLS

DWDM

Multi-Service Networks

Nokia NSP

SDN

CDM Regulations

Project lifecycle

Communication

Design tooling

Tools

Design tools

Job description

We currently have an opening in our Engineering team for a Design Engineer. This role will be primarily working in our ongoing projects to maintain and renew London Underground’s operational network, focusing on telecoms and network solutions.

As a Design Engineer, you will design solutions that meet the needs of our clients and users within the rail domain. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, design and implement solutions, and ensure the scalability, reliability, and performance of our products, solutions and services.

You will be responsible for the design production, design estimates, design programs and design work packages for bids, projects and services to contract requirements, standards, budget, and on-time delivery. You will undertake the role of Designer as identified in the CDM regulations, with particular attention to design risks, ensuring that safety risks are designed out or deemed as low as reasonably practicable.

This is a hybrid role working a minimum of two days per week from our Waterloo office site.

Key Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Collaborate with all stakeholders to understand project requirements and translate them into designs
• Design solutions using industry best practice, processes and tools.
• Produce designs that are buildable and maintainable that meet customer requirements and relevant standards and legislation.
• Identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and other issues.
• Work collaboratively with other engineering disciplines and other stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of the project.
• Understand and follow the project delivery processes, methodologies, and use the defined tools as set out in the Hitachi Rail Management System and the project specific Engineering Management Plans.
• Escalate issues to the Senior Design Engineer where necessary
• Provide status reports to the Senior Design Engineer

Technical Skills and Experience

Proven capabilities in some or all of the following areas:

IP/MPLS

• Layers: Layer-2 VPN Circuit emulation [C-pipe. CESoPSN, SATOP], Layer-2 VPN-Ethernet [E-Piper, VPLS, H-VPLS], Layer-3 VPN [VPRN,IES].
• Alternative MPLS options: Flat IS-IS, LDP, Segment Routing (w/wo PCE), MPLS-TP, SD-WAN, SASE.

DWDM

• Optical Fundamentals: Wavelength multiplexing, fibre impairments, power budgeting.

Multi-Service Networks

• Nokia Service Platform (NSP): Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) , Software Defined Networking (SDN).
• Strong ability to use design tools to produce complex designs
• Capable of managing a design through a defined design process.
• Working knowledge of project plans.
• Ability to produce metrics as part of Quality assurance & control.
• Proven record of working in a telecoms engineering environment.
• Fully understands the engineering lifecycle and its associated processes.
• Knowledgeable about CDM regulations.
• Appreciation of requirements to work effectively in an engineering environment and understanding of engineering delivery methodologies.

Human Skills

• Stay updated on emerging technologies, trends, and industry best practices, and apply them to enhance our solutions
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team
• Proven problem-solving ability, trade-off skills and attention to detail

What to expect

We aim to complete a one-stage interview process, which will be held at the Waterloo office. The interview will focus on both technical and behavioural competencies. Reasonable adjustments are available with prior notice so please let the TA partner know if this would be necessary. To find out what reasonable adjustments are, and what might be available, your TA partner will be happy to discuss this with you. We may close this role early if we quickly identify suitably strong applicants.

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.