System Technical Manager

Faiveley Transport Far East Ltd; Hong Kong Island; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical covering employee and dependet

Birthday Leave

Bridging Leave

Job summary

Wabtec is seeking a senior mechanical/electrical project engineering leader in Hong Kong to oversee the design office and coordinate with cross-functional teams on railway projects.

You will drive system requirements, manage prototype testing, and ensure timely, compliant design releases while maintaining strong communication with customers and internal partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum 8 years in technical or project departments of machinery companies.
• Project management experience preferable.
• Proficient in spoken and written English.
• Written and spoken Chinese not mandatory but a plus.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Railway industry knowledge desirable.

Responsibilities

• Attend technical meetings with Customer and be the technical contact of the project.
• Lead the design department and liaison between project manager and design office team.
• Handover design team with contractual documentation following management requirements.
• Daily lead the technical design team (electrical, mechanical, RAMS).
• Lead and coordinate system and product design activities (requirements, architecture, interfaces).
• Manage design reviews and customer approvals, ensure release of documents and specs.
• Conduct preliminary safety and risk assessments and close FMEA actions.
• Prepare and maintain technical documentation and customer correspondence.
• Define and validate product/system requirements and oversee prototype testing and validation.
• Support procurement and manufacturing with technical specs and subcontractor requirements.
• Lead technical discussions with customers for cost-effective solutions.
• Monitor progress, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, close design issues.

Skills

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or E?

8+ years experience in technical/ proj

Project management

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Job description

Your next leadership step with a Fortune 500 company

Medical covering employee and dependent

Birthday Leave and Bridging Leave Days

Job Description

To attend technical meetings with Customer and to be the technical contact of the project. Work with the Project Manager from the beginning of the project to its commissioning of the first station;

To be responsible and accountable of design department for the project and be the link between the project manager and the design office team, and to work closely with the project team members;

To handover the design team with list of contractual documentation by following configuration of management requirement;

To daily lead the technical design team (constitute of the electrical design engineer, the mechanical design engineer and the RAMS engineer);

Lead and coordinate system and product design activities, including requirements analysis, architecture definition, interface management, and functional design development.

Manage design reviews and customer approvals, ensuring interface documents, drawings, and technical specifications are finalized and formally released.

Conduct preliminary safety and risk assessments, identify safety-critical elements, and ensure closure of design validation and FMEA actions.

Prepare and maintain technical documentation, including system specifications, design reports, technical submissions, validation documents, and customer correspondence.

Define and validate product and system requirements, oversee prototype testing, formal validation activities, and interface verification with customers.

Support procurement and manufacturing by developing purchasing specifications, subcontractor requirements, and technical documentation for critical and long lead-time components.

Lead technical discussions and negotiations with customers to achieve optimized, cost-effective, and schedule-compliant design solutions.

Monitor project design progress, coordinate multidisciplinary technical teams, manage open design issues, and ensure all deliverables meet project timelines and quality requirements.

To ensure the link with other transversal departments, and especially with the purchasing, method, quality, installation, field service departments;

To ensure the prototype test plan is submitted timely;

To validate technical interfaces with customer after discussion and validation by the technical team;

To ensure system validation internally and with the Customer;

To respect the delivery dates commitments: updating the project deliverable list and its content, then transferring them in right delivery time to the project Manager;

To have a duty to alert his superiors in case of technical risk or resource problem;

To provide monthly reporting to both technical and financiary costs and part cost to Design Office Manager. With his team, he is responsible for the budgets allocated to Design Office by following change of scope and asking, to Project Manager, for new hours to be allocated to Design Office, as needed, and report the design hour spending to Project Manager in monthly basis.

Qualifications

What do we want to know about you?

Bachelor Degree or above in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Minimum 8 years working experiences in technical department or technical position in project department of machinery companies

Project managing skill as project manager or project engineer is preferable

Be proficient in spoken and written English

Written and spoken Chinese is not mandatory but can be a plus.

Ability to work independently with strong communication skills and effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Detail-oriented with good problem-solving abilities and a willingness to continuously train and learn new skills, both technical and operational.

Previous experience or knowledge of the railway industry is desirable

Additional Information

Please note: Successful candidates will be required to complete background and criminal history check

We do not accept unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies.

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