Railway Dynamics Engineer

Description de l'offre

Alstom

The Railway industry today is characterized by both a strong and sustained growth across the world. The trends that drive this are well known: environmental challenges, population growth, urbanization and increasing demands for mobility.
With 6B€ of Sales and around 30,000 employees based in over 60 countries, Alstom develop & market the most complete range of systems, equipment and services offered today in the railway sector. Today we offer our customers solutions that feature a seamless blend of diverse technologies, ensuring optimal interfaces, along with flexible implementation and real synergy in innovation.

Objective

Ensure, within a team, responsibility for the design of suspensions, modeling and validation of a rail system (train architecture and bogies ) using tools MBS (Multi-Body Simulation) in the project environment or R & D projects or analysis of specific expertise

Responsibilities

·  Carry-out Railway Dynamics analysis with MBS tools (as Simpack and Vampire) to evaluate the performance of the system in term of security, comfort, …
• Carry-out the standard Railway Dynamics simulations for the Pre-Project and Projects : Evaluation by simulation of system performance in order to meet the criteria.

·  Define the characteristics of the suspension (springs, rubber elements, pneumatic suspension, shock absorbers/dampers) to check the security criteria of the train (flexibility coefficient, derailment, etc.) and comfort ;  parametric analysis in order to obtain  the optimal solution
·  Analysis and interpretation of tests results (indoor and on track tests).
·  Definition of suspensions: With the help of suspensions engineers prepare suspension specifications and monitor suppliers: clauses-to-clauses / type tests / requested documentation
·  With the help of suspensions engineers Perform sizing of organs like springs and anti-roll bar
·  Propose to the project engineering manager the solutions (suspension) in order to achieve the required performance of the system.

Educational Requirements

Mechanical engineer

Technical Knowledge / Experience

• Experience 2 to 3 years in analysis and dynamic simulations of vehicles.

• Experience in the bogie suspension design and the railway systems of dynamic analysis is an asset.

• Knowledge of programming languages (like Fortran, C ++, VBA, Matlab etc ..) is an asset

Technical Knowledge / Experience

• Mechanical Engineering

• Advance knowledge of Mathematic

• Knowledge of mechanical vibrations, signal processing

• Knowledge of Track-vehicle system

Behavioural Competencies

• Team Spirit,

• Good communication skills,

• Autonomy,

• Rigor,

• English conversational/writing/reading advanced level mandatory,

• French conversational/reading/reading advanced level is preferred

Why Work  for Us?  At Alstom we offer you the opportunity to unleash your potential and reinvent yourself. As a future employee, you will have a unique opportunity to drive our organization forward, while continuing to build your career and contribute to the expanding growth of the global railway industry.

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