Traction Power Design Engineer 135688

Traction Power Design Engineer
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Date: 05-Jan-2022
Location: Vaesteras, Sweden
Company: Alstom
Req ID:135688
We create smart innovations to meet the mobility challenges of today and tomorrow. We design and manufacture a complete range of transportation systems, from high-speed trains to electric buses and driverless trains, as well as infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility solutions. Joining us means joining a truly global community of more than 75 000 people dedicated to solving real-world mobility challenges and achieving international projects with sustainable local impact.
Traction Power Design Engineer
Position ID: 135688


If you’re ambitious, driven and team-spirited, this is your opportunity to build a career as a Traction Power Design Engineer based in Vasteras, Sweden.

Purpose of the role
To define the power schemes and to design electrical components for traction drives or auxiliary converter systems.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Methodology
• Uses the design rules for Power
• Uses standard design deliverables for Power
• Uses the standards tools in line with Alstom expectations and rules
• Contributes to define rules and standard design deliverables
• Contributes to write knowledge guidelines
• Contributes to Return of Experience on power schemes and Electrical components

Tender, product, project or R&D development
• Calculates electrical or thermal constraints related to all components of the power scheme (use MATLAB, SABER, MATHCAD or CITHEL tools) to fulfil all customer and normative requirements. Write corresponding design reports
• Define the interfaces of electrical components with mechanical department
• Specifies the electrical components of the traction drives or auxiliary converters
• Power electronic components (IGBT, diodes, …)
• Switchgear
• Traction motors
• Passive components (inductors, transformers, capacitors, resistors, busbars, …)
• Interface components with control electronics (sensors, gate drives, relays, …)
• Participates in design review with suppliers
• Participates in the business award and components qualification
• Specifies the power requirements to be exported to the control/command engineer (flux law, torque law, PWM strategy, protection thresholds, …)
• Participates in the definition of validation tests of the power scheme with the validation engineer
• Participates in investigation tests
• Contributes to the problem solving
• Prepares the power design reviews in accordance with DFQ system
• Participates in technical core team meetings


REQUIREMENTS
• Master degree in electrical engineering
• English – fluent (mandatory), Swedish – intermmediate.