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Siemens Technical Authorisation Manager for Locomotives in Plzen, Czech Republic

Job Family: Engineering

Req ID: 424297

Becoming a Technical Manager in Engineering means coordinating a highly skilled team of specialists across various fields and countries, taking responsibility for implementing customer requirements, and designing solutions.

We have developed and continue to enhance an excellent technical product—a locomotive based on the Vectron platform, with more than 1,500 units currently operating across Europe. Before this technical marvel hits the tracks, its operation must be approved by the relevant regulatory authorities.

Key responsibilities:

  • Organizing and managing the approval process for locomotives from the Vectron platform

  • Securing verification documents for approvals

  • Communicating with regulatory authorities in various countries to ensure vehicle homologation in those regions

  • Assessing and classifying mechanical and hardware changes and software releases concerning their impact on homologation

  • Developing the approval plan and managing the entire homologation process

  • Communicating with the project team, platform management, and engineering specialists

Requirements:

  • A university degree in a technical field

  • Experience in project management in development or testing processes in development

  • An aptitude for the formal administrative aspects of projects, willingness to work with documents (provision, management, storage, change process, etc.)

  • Excellent communication skills, assertiveness, and a willingness to interact with colleagues within the company and relevant authorities

  • Proficiency in English and Czech for daily professional work, German at any level is an advantage

  • A systematic, meticulous approach and the ability to see things in context

  • Approximately 20% time flexibility for business trips, mainly to Germany (Munich, Erlangen)

Experience in the field of railway vehicles, especially TSI standards, is an advantage.

Join us and enjoy following benefits:

  • The possibility to co-design the most up-to-date rail vehicles for the whole world – our work is not created to be hidden away

  • Open opportunities in expert and management career growth

  • Signing bonus in the amount of CZK 50,000

  • Up to 33 days of holidays/year

  • Flexible working hours (fix part from 10AM to 2PM)

  • Home office to support your work-life balance

  • Annual budget of CZK 24, 000 or 48,000 in our Cafeteria to be used for various leisure activities

...For more benefits click here (http://%20https/mobility.siemens.cz/jobs/en/benefits/)

If the topic of sustainable transport and modern transport-related solutions is close to your heart, then you're one of us!

Siemens Mobility has been a leader in sustainable, reliable, and safe transport solutions for more than 160 years. We have a staff of over 700 employees in the Czech Republic. We are also home to the second largest rolling stock development centre globally (over 350 colleagues). We work on projects for the whole world, from defining requirements, to SW/HW and mechanics development, to addressing cross-cutting themes at a vehicle level.

We influence the lives of hundreds of thousands of passengers every day. You can ride our fully automated metro in Vienna, or take a high-speed train direct from London to Amsterdam, for example. You can also often meet Taurus, the world's fastest locomotive, on Czech railway lines.

Our current projects include the construction of a complete rail infrastructure and the delivery of long-distance and high-speed units for Egypt ( "Suez on rails" (https://www.siemens.cz/press/siemens-mobility-podepsal-smlouvu-na-zeleznicni-system-na-klic-v-egypte-v-hodnote-3-miliard-usd) ). But we also deal with topics such as battery or hydrogen powertrains, autonomous driving, and related functional safety.

Is your CV not ready or do you need more information? Contact me at jana.fatkova@siemens.com (jana.holasova@siemens.com) or on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/fatkovajana) , where I share more about current company activities and our projects. I will be happy to add you to my contacts for potential future cooperation!

Please, kindly note, that we are currently accepting for our open roles only candidates, who can start immediately, which means they are eligible to work in the Czech Republic.

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