Hardware Design Engineer

Your future role:

Take on a new challenge and help shape the future of hardware engineering at Alstom. You’ll report to the Head of Engineering and play a vital role in delivering timely hardware engineering designs for a variety of electronic systems. Collaborating closely with internal teams and external customers, you’ll ensure high standards in health and safety, efficiency, cost, innovation, and service levels while addressing any hardware engineering issues that may arise. You will raise overall standards in Hardware engineering performance using best practice Hardware design methods and continuous improvement (CI) tools.

We’ll look to you for the following:

Provide hardware engineering support for a range of electronics systems, ensuring designs meet the correct specifications and quality standards.

Liaise with production, project teams, and external customers to ensure engineering activities align with site objectives and budget levels.

Lead or assist in technical investigations into hardware engineering challenges, delivering timely and high-quality solutions.

Recommend changes to specifications and processes to improve product reliability and operational performance.

Represent the Engineering team in both internal and external meetings, collaborating to resolve engineering challenges effectively.

Support the introduction of new hardware designs from planning through to full implementation.
To ensure full compliance with UK Health and Safety Regulations.
To ensure full compliance with ALSTOM Electronics quality standards.
Ensure KPI targets for Right First Time (RFT), efficiency, cost and service are consistently achieved.

All About You:

A good understanding of Electronics analogue & digital design disciplines, together with Health and Safety and quality standards is required
Substantial Electronics hardware design experience within a relevant electronics business, using best practice design methods, value engineering and CI techniques.
Education in Electronics Engineering to Degree level or equivalent.
The individual must be a “driven”, well disciplined, logical thinking, self motivated, team player, able to communicate at all levels and above all be highly “innovative” in delivering high standards in Electronics hardware design.
Excellent standards of Electronics hardware design, technical ability, communication.
Personal discipline, Health & Safety, time management, problem solving and continuous improvement.
A high level of customer focus is critical.

Things You’ll Enjoy:

Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
Contribute to innovative projects
Utilise our agile working environment
Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning
Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension)
Up to 52 weeks full maternity and adoption pay
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday
A wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle.

All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.

As a “disability confident leader accredited employer”, we will interview all disabled job applicants who match the essential criteria of the job description or specification.

Closing Date: 13th August 2025.

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