Senior/Executive Engineer, Condition Monitoring

at  SMRT Corporation Ltd

QUALIFICATIONS & WORK EXPERIENCE

• Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)
• Diploma and Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering or similar field
• Hands-on instrumentation experience and data analysis would be an advantage
• Experience with LIDAR Sensors / 3D Mapping / SLAM algorithm would be advantage.

TECHNICAL SKILLS INCLUDE:

• Willing to learn and passionate about programming and instrumentation.
• Basic knowledge and formal training in electrical circuits and fundamentals.
• Working understanding in electrical, electronics and power principles, circuit theory.
• Hands-on experience with electrical testing equipment, measurement tools, and techniques.
• Have exposure to a high-level programming language e.g., Python or MATLAB, for data analysis and verification.
• Awareness on dynamics of voluminous data to deployment efficiency and an attention to detail.Experience with SQL, NoSQL databases, Microsoft Azure cloud services (IoT Hub and Azure Sphere) will be an advantage.

GENERIC SKILLS INCLUDE:

• Strong inclination and eager for continual learning and development
• Ability to work in a team
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to think independently and actively propose solutions to the team.
  SMRT Trains Ltd was incorporated in 1987 and operates Singapore’s first mass rapid transit system. Today, we manage and operate train services on the North-South Line, East-West Line, the Circle Line, the Thomson-East Coast Line, and the Bukit Panjang Light Rail Transit. With over 5,000 employees, more than 250 trains, and 141 km of rail tracks across 108 stations, we serve millions of commuters daily

JOB PURPOSE

The Senior/Executive Engineer, Condition Monitoring will collaborate with other divisions in SMRT to facilitate development and maintenance of digital solutions. The engineer will work on varied Rail Assets applications to support condition-monitoring (e.g., using IoT or Sensors) in the areas of instrumentation for data acquisition and Cloud infrastructure for transfer, storage, and analytics. These will be conducted under guidance and/or facilitated with industry training modules, as part of an experienced team that is expanding. Fundamental electrical engineering knowledge, including experience with electrical wiring, is required with instrumentation hands-on familiarity in PLC or SCADA set-up preferred.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The duties and responsibilities for Senior/Executive Engineer, Condition Monitoring are as listed below. The list is not comprehensive and related work activities may be assigned from time to time.

• Understand key business processes and challenges of maintenance regimes of rail assets.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand and document their business needs.
• Engage end-users on a continual basis for feedback and improvements.
• Apply knowledge in electrical and electronics principles for instrumentation system set up, testing and commissioning.
• Understand the varied failure modes of the rail asset to identify choice of key proxies to monitor.
• Instrument IoT / Sensors for monitoring of rail assets to acquire the data for the identified proxy.
• Develop automated IoT data pipeline, simple database and APIs on a Cloud platform.
• Perform simple data analysis with visualizations to support IoT data verification
• Attend occasional site work (day or night) as part of a team during project delivery.