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About the Role

The Solution Engineering Manager (SEM) is the Technical Bid / Project manager for the Engineering organization, providing principal engineering delivery leadership, direction, management decision authority, and support to the Bid/Project. This role directs and manages the Engineering team to achieve company objectives in terms of program schedule, financial, and quality targets, requiring a solid combined technical and managerial foundation.

Responsibilities

Drive technical activities and manage technical milestones for the bid (such as SOR).
Ensure the consistency of the design with the technical solution and NRCs as defined by the PDA.
Provide support to the capture lead and Bid Manager to define the detailed scope split.
Consolidate and Review the functional Engineering estimates: hours, technical risks and opportunities, assumptions, conditions of offer, hardware items, 3rd party estimates.
Manage inputs to the Bill of Quantity (BOQ) with input from engineering functional teams.
Support bid manager for milestones through contributing slides, participation in milestone meetings (BKO, BBR, CCR, Gates 1/2/3, Handover to project).
Support capture lead and sales team together with PDA through interfacing with customers to present / clarify technical solution and attend workshops.
Identify and manage technical Risk and Opportunities during Bid.
May assume additional engineering responsibilities (PDA, System, HW design, solution engineering estimator) based on required skills and need.
Produce Engineering schedule and roadmap, Engineering summary consolidated estimate and sign off sheet, Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP).
Manage/coordinate deliverables produced by others, including Design Validation Authorization (DVA), Technical Description (TD), System architecture drawings, Installation SoWs, Subcontract and Major Items procurement specifications/SoWs, Interface documents/drawings (VOBC/ZC/ATS ICDs, VOBC BBI), Compliance matrices (technical requirements).
Import into Requirement management tool and populate attributes for technical requirements (compliance matrix) and programmatic requirements.
Direct and provide engineering leadership to the team assigned to the project to deliver the Engineering solution to time, cost and quality, using accurate measurement of progress with KPIs.
Define and deliver the strategy, plan and implementation of the overall Engineering Solution for the Project within defined scope, schedule and cost baseline.
Oversee the development of cost and time estimates for project activities to meet business and customer objectives.
Write the Solution Engineering Management Plan (SEMP), organize co-engineering and approve lower level solution elements engineering plans including those flow down to subcontractors and partners.
Define the System development life cycle and define process, practices, and tools applicable to the project based on the BL / Domain reference system and tailored based on specific constraints.
Ensure process, practices, and tools are applied correctly and appropriately on the project to company, legislative, regulatory and international standards (incl CENELEC), as defined in the Project plans.
Ensure that the Bid / Project’s Design and other Technical Certification is coordinated, complete and consistent with the delivered and installed base and can be provided for Business approval and delivery to the customer.
Ensure that the Engineering Performance Plan, as defined at Company level, is properly deployed in the Project.
Monitor competitiveness KPIs, and lead corrective actions when required.
Support the Project / Programme Director in the management of change, variation, risk and opportunity, recovery, and acceleration as it affects the delivery of the Engineering solution.
Define with the Engineering Functional Teams the Engineering workload needed for the project and work with them to ensure that the Project’s engineering team are mobilized and released in a timely and planned manner.
Highlight skill’s gap to the managers if any.
Lead the interfacing with the Engineering teams of the client and other external Engineering parties to ensure that the integration and migration of the overall Engineering solution within its infrastructure and associated projects is achieved.
Ensure that any Corrective Actions and Observations related to the engineering delivery and solution are closed in a timely and complete manner.
Support capitalization activities for the project as well as lessons learnt.

Requirements

5+ years of experience with System Level signaling project delivery
Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams
Proven customer communication / technical management skills
People management leadership experience
Work package management experience
Bid process experience
System design of Software preponderant systems, safety critical system
CENELEC standard experience

Skills

Strong oral and written communication skills in English
PMP or IPMA certifications are a plus

Location

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Work Type

Full time
Hybrid

Experience Level

5+ years

Education Level

College or University graduate
Degree in Engineering

Salary/Compensations

$114,000 - $147,000

Benefits

Health, Dental and Vision plans - 100% of premiums are company-paid
Retirement Savings Plan with a company match
Company paid holidays - 3 weeks of vacation
Company provided Life and accident Insurance, LTD
Work life programs such as Flextime and a variety of Development and Training opportunities

About the Company

A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there’s something for everyone to get stuck into.

Equal Opportunity

At Hitachi Rail, there is a place for everyone. We welcome and value differences in background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and world view. It is our commitment to create an inclusive environment - we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.