Who We Are
Hitachi Rail is a fully integrated, global provider of rail solutions across rolling stock, signaling, service & maintenance, digital technology and turnkey. With a presence in 38 countries across three continents and over 13,000 employees, our mission is to contribute to society through the continuous development of superior rail transport solutions.

Mission

We are looking for an Electronic Component Engineer to help minimize electronic component and electronic design risk across our product portfolio. The successful candidate will work in the obsolescence management design team and will work strictly with Industrialization, engineering, Research & Development, quality, procurement, and manufacturing, providing support for new and existing Hitachi Products and system. 

Accountabilities:

-Work with engineering, quality, procurement, and manufacturing leadership to establish component engineering processes.
-Implement risk management strategies to address obsolescence and proactively identify and address future obsolescence.
-Review design BOMs, conduct part lifecycle analysis and collaborate with engineering & research & development to develop strategies and alternative technical solution to minimize supply chain risk.
-Monitor / manage component obsolescence per internal processes utilizing IT tools (SAP/Teamcenter/ r BOM REVIEW, IHS, PDM system).
-Resolve Diminishing Manufacturing Sources (DMS) and End of Life (EOL) component issues.
-Develop and maintain engineering documentation and recommend test strategies for requalication;
-Implement component related problem reporting and design changes working closely with hardware engineering staff.

Required Skills/Knowledge 

Sophomore student in an electrical or electronic discipline with some electronics courses completed.
Demonstrate aptitude for communication, collaboration and cooperation with a variety of stakeholders.