System Engineer

Onward Technologies; Channappana Hosur; On-site; INR 500,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Onward Technologies is seeking a System Engineer to lead engineering activities across a project, ensuring requirements, budget and schedule are met. The role covers defining WBS, contributing to detailed schedules, coordinating cross-domain engineering deliverables, and ensuring verification, validation and product integration.

Strong Polarion experience and railway standards knowledge are preferred. The candidate will collaborate with multiple stakeholders, maintain rigorous design reviews,

Qualifications

• Mastery of computer tools (Word, Excel, MS Project).
• Comfortable writing system specifications, expert reports, technical definitions, maintenance plans.
• Working experience on Polarion tool for requirements management.
• English imperative.
• Knowledge of railway standards with previous experience in Brakes systems.
• Knowledge of systems and control aspects desired.
• Curiosity, Tenacity, Taste for contacts, Innovator.
• Ability to synthesize and analyze in order to understand the solutions to be provided.
• Listening, availability, rigor.
• Reactive, service oriented, priority management.
• Demanding of self and those working with him/her.
• Strongly technical position, first experience in a design or methods office.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, coordinate and control all engineering activities to deliver on requirements, budget and schedule.
• Develop the engineering-related part of the WBS (Work Breakdown Structure).
• Generate the engineering input to the detailed project schedule.
• Coordinate engineering tasks across domains and conduct design reviews.
• Ensure verification, validation and integration of all products and subsystems.
• Manage project gate reviews and budget discussions with the Project Manager.
• Provide timely reporting and action on scope changes.

Skills

English proficiency

System engineering

Communication

Synthesis & analysis

Problem solving

Education

General engineering / electronics / embedded computing background

Tools

Polarion

MS Project

Job description

Job title: System Engineer

Ownership and key responsibilities

System Engineer is responsible to lead, manage, coordinate and control all engineering-related activities in the project to deliver on requirements, budget and schedule, by implementing the applicable engineering Product Line processes.

Main missions

The System Engineer shall:

• Ensure that all technical requirements and demands by the Customer as per contract are covered by the defined Engineering-Scope, i.e. to develop the engineering-related part of the WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)
• Generate the engineering input to the detailed project schedule
• Ensure that all tasks of the defined Engineering-Scope are clearly addressed to the responsible Domains, to coordinate the execution of engineering activities, including project design reviews, control against project time plan, budget and project requirements.
• Cooperate with other functions inside and outside the Project Core Team in cross-functional activities (i.e cost reduction review, risk and opportunity analysis)
• Provide the regular project reporting to the Project Manager in accordance with his scope of responsibility. Monitor and compile scope change and agree engineering budget with PM.
• Approve all concepts and specifications for use in the Project (such as calculations, safety analysis, System type test report).
• Analyze and report all changes to engineering project budget, schedule, requirements and deliverables and interface with Domains.
• Maintain and address the global project open item list concerning technical items. Perform a weekly review with domains to prioritize actions.
• Ensure every Product Line Domains provides engineering deliverables as required in the project.
• Advise the Project Manager in all technical matters and propose solutions.
• In collaboration with the Domains leaders, define and ensure allocation of required resources and budget.
• Ensure that verification activities - such as design reviews are performed to the project plan
• Ensure that Verification & Validation is properly planned, performed and documented
• Ensure the integration of all products and sub-systems in the full system.
• Ensure that that the delivered product including subsystems perform as requested to fulfill the Customer requirement contracts.
• Ensure to achieve customer satisfaction with reliable product performance, quick response to customer feedbacks including potential complaints and provide appropriate solutions within the time limits.
• Support and address the interface problems or technical clarifications (e.g. with suppliers)
• Manage according to the project plan, the project product development plan with a focus on implementation, integration, verification. It shall cover all the products involved in the project, including software.
• Manage the customer gate reviews, ensuring a proper preparation for the engineering scope and a positive achievement of the milestone.
• Manage with the technical project team the related system validation process, ensuring the respect and the management of all homologation and certification requirements.
• System engineer can be appointed to customer project (from kick-off, project development, product delivery and commissioning, reliability growth monitoring period to warranty phase out), tender phase or R&D project where applicable.
• System engineer is liable to ensure maximum use of standard product and authorize new development with authorization of relevant stakeholder.
• System engineer shall work with project team to maintain or improve Total project cost as sold at bid.
• Provide return of experience to Product manager / Product owner for capitalization by releasing LLC (Lesson Learned Card)/updating the design rules.
• Depending on project phase / project scope, a system engineer can cover, perform and support some domains activities where applicable.
• Manages the Hot issues.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

• Mastery of computer tools (Word, Excel, MS Project).
• Comfortable writing system specifications, expert reports, technical definitions, maintenance plans....
• Working experience on Polarion tool for requirements management.
• English imperative
• Knowledge of railway standards with previous experience in Brakes systems
• Knowledge of systems and control aspects desired
• Curiosity, Tenacity, Taste for contacts, Innovator
• Ability to synthesize and analyze in order to understand the solutions to be provided
• Listening, availability, rigor
• Reactive, service oriented, priority management
• Demanding of self and those working with him/her
• Strongly technical position, first experience in a design or methods office

Qualification / Requirement:

• General engineering / electronics / embedded computing background
• 3 to 5 years in the industry

Communication skills, interacting with stakeholders, cross functional teams interaction.

• Technical project manager, Requirements Management (Polarion/DOORS, MS Project), Documentation,
• System understanding (Brakes), Embedded/Electronics/Mechanical.