Job Description

Its not just about your career or job title Its about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether its for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, youre in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.

Role Summary/Purpose

- Truck Advanced Lead Engineer will play the key role of owning the technical responsibility of Locomotive Truck (Bogie) sub system development and ensure design complies with subsystem / System level requirements.

Essential Responsibilities

- Lead the Design and development of Truck subsystem and its components for locomotives following robust Engineering Process.
- Capture and consolidate all requirements, develop finalize concepts with Trade-off analysis, identify technical risks and develop mitigation plans, coordinate the Truck component interface with other subsystems and ensure compliance with customer, regulatory and WABTEC specifications.
- Must lead design of locomotive Truck components covering various types of projects like NPI, requisition, productivity, service productivity reliability etc.
- Must lead projects by adhering to WABTEC processes and guide cross functional teams to support assigned projects; meeting business standards and program / product requirements.




- Assure proper documentation of technical data generated and leverage it for training/ leaning and effort optimization.

Qualifications/Requirements

- Bachelors /masters degree in mechanical engineering with minimum 9 years of design experience in Locomotive truck/ automotive suspension steering/ automotive chassis / heavy fabrication engineering area.
- Should have engineering experience on heavy fabrication components engineering, welded bolted joints, strain gauging etc
- Technical understanding and capabilities in component design and ability to lead component design / selection like spring, damper, rubber bushings, elastomeric pads etc.
- Demonstrated interpersonal Skills to interface effectively with cross functional teams. Should be able to resolve inter sub-system issues through specific actions.
- Experience of guiding CAD team to develop 3-D models and packaging concepts drawing needs.
- Positive written and verbal communication skills in English.

Desired Characteristics

- Master degree in Mechanical Engineering / Aerospace etc
- Good understanding of rail standards such as AAR, EN, RGS, UIC, APTA, and Indian Railway standards etc.
- Good understanding of manufacturing processes including fabrication, casting, forging and mechanical assembly procedures and component validation
- Experience performing dynamic simulations (from model build, model simulation to results interpretation) on Car/ Truck/ Bus/ Locomotive using MSC ADAMS or VI-Rail Software to evaluate road/track/rail performance parameters.
- Experience performing finite element analysis with hyperworks, ANSYS classic tools

📌 Advanced Lead Engineer (Karnataka)
🏢 Wabtec
📍 Karnataka