Project Design Authority

.About Us 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. And that's where you come in. Hitachi Rail people architect solutions that support 85 million mainline and suburban passenger journeys, worldwide, every day. Our Rail Signalling and Communication systems are used on metro lines across major cities, and 72,000 kms of route, 52,000 trains per day in 16 countries are controlled by our Traffic Management Systems. Together We deployed the first-ever nationwide ticketing system which processes over 50 million ticketing transactions in 100 cities daily. We are currently looking for a Senior Telecom System Engineer to join Hitachi Rail as a Project Design Authority. The Project Design Authority is the technical leader of the bid or project team, acting as lead technical interface with the Customer. Main Responsibilities: Defines and proposes innovative solutions to meet customer requirements in compliance with product/system technical strategy; Assesses technique and technological choices to ensure the best trade-off between customer requirements, technical solutions and cost & risk control; Ensures standardisationand adequate re-use; Contributes to technical specification definition and to the subcontractor choice for needed subsystem acquisition, considering possible export control restrictions; Full commitment with the Contractual/Project Dates; Support to the Installation Supervision, Test & Commissioning and Maintenance activities; Gives support in the preparation of project plans, by estimating the effort and time needed to accomplish the tasks, and identify risks; Approves the main bid/project engineering reviews and deliverables; Organizes, when appropriate, technical meetings and peer reviews in order to perform the solution technical assessment and validation; Responsible to agree the compliance of project requirements with client