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Hitachi Rail

System Design Specialist - Intermediate

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Hitachi Rail
Hitachi Rail designs, manufactures, and maintains advanced rail solutions across the globe.
Develop and define system design features for communication-based train control systems, while ensuring compliance with customer requirements and building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
17d ago
Experienced (8-12 years), Intermediate (4-7 years)
Full Time
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hybrid
Company Size
38,000 Employees
Service Specialisms
Rolling Stock Manufacturing
Rolling Stock Maintenance
Digital Signalling & Train Control
Ticketing & Payment Systems
Operations & Maintenance (O&M)
Turnkey Railway Solutions
Smart Mobility / Digital Asset Management
Sector Specialisms
Rolling Stock
Signalling
Turnkey Solutions
Operation
Service
Maintenance
High-Speed Rolling Stock
Express Trains
Role
What you would be doing
customer requirements
safety culture
system design
process improvement
benchmark best practices
create kpis
  • Prepares and supports customer requirements compliance assessment and gap analysis.
  • Promotes a safety culture where product safety is paramount.
  • Ensures that safety is built into the design by early identification and resolution of safety related defects.
  • Responsible to bring benchmarking on best practices (internally and out of the company)
  • Similarly creates new concepts or modifies existing concepts to fulfil customer requirements.
  • Implement process improvement in the project.
  • Responsible for creating set of valuable KPIs to Project Director after having understood company processes
  • Converts Customer (internal and/or external) requirements into conceptual designs and prepares associated documentation by performing operational analyses, simulations and technical trade-off studies evaluating alternative design configurations and functional features.
  • Prepares system, subsystem, and interface requirement specifications by analyzing and decomposing modelling, refining customer requirements and typical train control domain requirements.
  • Interfaces and builds strong working relationships with Software, Hardware and IVVQ groups to ensure timely analysis and resolution of in-house and field test issues.
  • Support Associate Project Manager on documentation management
  • Support PMO manager on setting up proper governance and reports
What you bring
software engineering
communication
system engineering
academic qualification
rail signaling
expertise
  • Knowledge of modern software engineering practices, methods, and tools
  • Presents technical design to other engineering/management groups in clear, complete, concise, and non-ambiguous terms.
  • Excellent technical writing and communication skills
  • System engineering expertise
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Systems, Electrical, Computer), Computer Science, or a closely related field
  • Strong planning, presentation, and organizational skills
  • Must be able to work with complex set of data and restitute synthesis to all the team
  • Knowledge of systems engineering principles and practices.
  • Must be able to work with different background people (engineers, legal, planning, finance)
  • Knowledge of systems development life cycle
  • Rail Signaling knowledge
  • Experience in using DOORS, Polarion, Melody advance, or other system design and requirement management tools.
  • Medium level expertise in URS (Urban Rail Signaling) Systems: - Minimum 3 years on/or similar system complexity-intermediate level of expertise on specialized engineering skills of the CBTC (Communication Based Train Control) domain
  • 2-5 years’ experience in development of software-based System applications
  • Must have strong communication skills and curiosity for asking people
Benefits
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Training + Development
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Interview process
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Visa Sponsorship
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Security clearance
  • the company may perform background checks, but the job description does not provide specific details about it.
Company
Overview
Culture + Values
  • Wa (Harmony): We need to show respect to our colleagues, our suppliers, our clients and our stakeholders. We show respect to earn respect.
  • Makoto (Sincerity): We should act with integrity in all we say and do, … we maintain fairness in all our dealings; our reputation is founded on how we go about our business.
  • Kaitakusha – Seishin (Pioneering Spirit): We lead with ambition, seeking new challenges; we are not afraid to be flexible and adapt to the changing needs of our business.
Environment + Sustainability
100% Emission
Scope 1 & 2 by 2030
Target to achieve complete elimination of operational greenhouse gas emissions.
40% Reduction
Scope 3 by 2030
Aims to reduce emissions across the entire value chain, including supply chain and product use.
12% Decrease
Scope 1 & 2 in FY22
Achieved a significant drop in operational emissions in the fiscal year 2022.
90% Lower
CO₂ in HS2 Fleet
Accredited with PAS 2080, demonstrating a major improvement in fleet efficiency.
  • Carbon neutrality across business sites by 2030
  • Carbon neutrality across entire value chain by 2050
  • Net-zero across value chain by 2050 and net-zero operations by 2030
Inclusion & Diversity
October 2023
DEI Global Committee Launched
The company established a global committee to oversee diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Membership Doubled
Employee Resource Group Growth
Employee Resource Group membership has grown significantly following leadership inclusion interventions.
78%
EDI Score
The company achieved a score of 78% on its EDI metrics following targeted wellbeing and inclusion initiatives.
  • Gender-focused efforts: working to achieve a better gender balance
  • UK/Ireland, Italy, Japan regional DEI programmes underway
  • Defined focus areas include: Gender; Nationality, Ethnicity and Cultural Background; Multi‑Generations; LGBTQIA+; Disability and Neurodiversity
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