Intermediate Interlocking Application Designer

at  ALSTOM

Req ID:474455
At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.
Imagine playing a central role in reducing the carbon footprint of Canada’s busiest public transit system and doing so with a consistently ranked Top Employer with a global reach. As part of the ONxpress consortium, Alstom is proudly working to transform the collective mobility of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas (GTHA) through the On-Corridor Works project. The GO Expansion scope : new electric locomotives, train control systems, network electrification, signalling, telecommunications and digital systems. The Interlocking (IXL) is a system composed by Mechanical, Electromechanical, Electric, Electronic and Software components having the aim to ensure safe movements of trains.
Could you be the full-time hybrid Intermediate Interlocking Application Designer in Toronto, ON, CA we’re looking for?

YOUR FUTURE ROLE

Take on a new challenge and apply your multifaceted expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll work alongside innovative, collaborative, and dedicated teammates. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of transportation by significantly reducing the carbon footprint of Canada’s busiest public transit systems. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (Engineering, Project Management, Verification & Validation), ensure the application and adherence to the reference application design methods & tools, and much more.

We’ll look to you for:

• Taking part in the execution of IXL application design activities of a Signaling project, adopt the Alstom application design process and ensure the delivery accordingly to the projects schedule and quality commitments.
• Sharing with Project IXL design leader the progress of the activities executed, the issues and the potential improvement that can be applied on methods and tools.
• Deliver design scheme plan layouts, Control Tables, safe HMI layouts, signaling logic application data, diagnostic application data
• Ensuring the application and adherence to the reference application design methods & tools, requesting in cooperation with the Project IXL design leader deviations whenever appropriate
• Participating actively to the IXL detailed design review meetings and provide activity progress reports
• Organizing and producing documental, software design deliveries accordingly to the project templates and needs
• Supporting actively the Project IXL design leader and Project V&V manager in design issues debugging and testing
• Analyzing and managing design change requests and participate actively to the definition of the IXL application package to be delivered to the V&V, installation and Testing & Commissioning teams
• Ensuring independence of the design activity from the verification activity

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

• Degree in Electrical, Electronic, Automation Engineering or related technical discipline,
• Experience in IXL and/or TMS and/or ERTMS application design,
• Experience in relevant positions (systems / sub-system application design) in a highly complex and normative environment (railway signaling, CBTC, aerospace, defense).
• Signaling HW Design and SW data generation processes understanding. (desirable)
• Knowlege of signaling principles and translation of principles into application logic. (desirable)
• Engineering and system background. (desirable)
• Experience in relevant positions (systems / sub-system application design) in a highly complex and normative environment (railway signaling, CBTC, aerospace, defense).
• Railway transport trainings certification
• Autocad, programming language knowledge
• Open-minded;
• Multi-disciplinary approach;
• Good communication;
• (Self) entrepreneurial;
• Problem setting and problem solving;
• Writing skills required: clarity, rigor, and concision