Job Opportunities at MotivePower

Responsible for the design, development, testing, and implementation of mechanical engineering projects. Evaluates customer specifications for mechanical design requirements, designs locomotive mechanical systems including underframes, trucks, equipment arrangement, cooling and lube oil systems, carbodies and fuel tanks. Prepares Mechanical Parts Lists and Bills of Material. Makes work assignments to mechanical designers. Directs teams in design of plans and schematics. Maintains good working relationships with clients, staff, and outside contractors. Supervises and supports team members and ensures that established goals and deadlines are met. Ensures compliance with safety regulations and requirements. Keeps superiors informed of status and significant problems.

1. Manages projects and leads teams in designing, developing, and assembling projects from concept to final manufacture.
   1. Manages individual design and assembly projects.
   2. Stays informed of new technologies, trends, and regulations in mechanical engineering. Applies innovative technologies to designs.
   3. Researches design proposals, specifications, and requirements. Analyzes data and applies to product designs.
   4. Evaluates current machinery. Designs machine repairs and enhancements.
   5. Troubleshoots machines and systems as required.
   6. Prepares and coordinates reports including proposals, budgets, and construction cost analyses.
   7. Reviews procurement costs ensuring adherence to budgets and timetables.
   8. Evaluates price proposals and related documentation.
   9. Prepares engineering, design, and assembly documents.
   10. Ensures that safety regulations and requirements are met.
2. Assumes responsibility for establishing and maintaining effective communication, coordination, and working relationships with area staff and management.
   1. Delegates and prioritizes responsibilities of area staff.
   2. Interacts with engineering team to assess machine functions and compliance to system specifications.
   3. Tracks and resolves problems promptly and effectively.
   4. Obtains and conveys information as needed.
3. Assumes responsibility for establishing and maintaining effective communication, coordination, and working relationships with customers, suppliers, and outside contacts.
   1. Maintains client relationships. Interprets and implements customer needs.
   2. Ensures that outside parties are well informed of operations and schedules.
   3. Maintains relationships with regional government officials and procures necessary official documents.
   4. Projects and maintains the Company's professional reputation.
4. Assumes responsibility for related duties as required or assigned.
   1. Ensures that work area is clean, secure, and well maintained.
   2. Completes special projects as assigned.
   3. Attends meetings and professional conferences as required.

Professional Positions with 3 or 4 Levels

Level 1 - Entry/Intermediate. Entry level for Bachelor's degree or commensurate experience. Knows fundamental concepts and is learning to apply these concepts, practices and procedures in a particular field of specialization. Works under supervision, using fairly well established procedures. Work varies from routine to somewhat challenging in character. Little evaluation, originality or ingenuity is required.

Level 2 - Fully competent/journey. Possesses and applies a broad knowledge of principles, practices and procedures in particular field of specialization in the completion of difficult assignments. Usually works under general supervision, conferring with senior staff or leads on unusual matters. Assignments are broad in nature, usually requiring originality and ingenuity.

Level 3 - Senior. Possesses and applies comprehensive knowledge of a particular field of specialization in the completion of complex assignments. May cross fields. Works with limited supervision, plans and performs work generally involving the larger and more important projects or more than one project. Operates with considerable latitude=de for unreviewed action or decisions.

Leads - Schedule, plans, conducts and may supervise project work. Reviews progress and evaluates results. Recommends changes in procedures. May train junior level employees in technical complexities of assigned work. Reviews progress with management. Assist with the hiring, review, and evaluation of personnel performance. Operates with considerable latitude for unreviewed action or decisions.

1. Day to day operations of mechanical engineering teams run smoothly and timely.
2. Good business relationships exist with customers and contractors. Concerns are promptly addressed and any problems effectively resolved.
3. Projects are completed in a timely manner.
4. Innovative new processes and systems are developed.
5. Research and development is conducted using standard procedures, and according to effective and efficient practices.
6. Management is appropriately informed of area activities and of any significant problems. Recommendations for improvements in policies and procedures are provided.
7. Safety regulations and requirements are met.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION:

• College degree in mechanical engineering or related field.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE:

• Excellent understanding of Company operations and needs.
• Thorough understanding of mechanical engineering and assembly principles.
• Knowledge of code requirements.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• 5+ years of progressive experience.
• Previous project management experience.
• Previous supervisory experience preferred.

SKILLS/ABILITIES:

• Able to prioritize projects.
• Well organized.
• Able to operate computer applications (Microsoft Office and engineering software).
• Good communications skills.
• Solid leadership abilities.

TALKING:

• Especially where one must frequently convey detailed or important instructions or ideas accurately, loudly, or quickly. (Many jobs could be done without talking.)

AVERAGE HEARING:

• Able to hear average or normal conversations and receive ordinary information.

AVERAGE VISUAL ABILITIES:

• Average, ordinary, visual acuity necessary to prepare or inspect documents or products, or operate machinery.

PHYSICAL STRENGTH:

• Light work; exerts up to 20 lbs. occasionally and/or up to 10 lbs. frequently.

Must work under hazardous conditions including high places, chemical exposures, electrical current, moving machinery, exposure to blood, etc.

REASONING ABILITY:

• Ability to apply logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
• Able to deal with very difficult concepts and complex variables.

MATHEMATICS ABILITY:

• Able to perform very advanced mathematical and/or statistical operations.

LANGUAGE ABILITY:

• Ability to read periodicals, journals, manuals, dictionaries, thesauruses, and encyclopedias.
• Ability to prepare business letters, proposals, summaries, and reports using prescribed format and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style.
• Ability to conduct training, communicate at panel discussions, and make professional presentations.

Job descriptions assist organizations in ensuring that the hiring process is fairly administered and that qualified employees are selected. They are also essential to an effective appraisal system and related promotion, transfer, layoff, and termination decisions. Well constructed job descriptions are an integral part of any effective compensation system.

All descriptions have been reviewed to ensure that only essential functions and basic duties have been included. Peripheral tasks, only incidentally related to each position, have been excluded. Requirements, skills, and abilities included have been determined to be the minimal standards required to successfully perform the positions. In no instance, however, should the duties, responsibilities, and requirements delineated be interpreted as all inclusive. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is possible that requirements may be modified to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals. However, no accommodations will be made which may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or which impose undue hardships on the organization.

Job descriptions are not intended as and do not create employment contracts. The organization maintains its status as an at-will employer. Employees can be terminated for any reason not prohibited by law.