Life Cycle Cost Analyst

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com.

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Wabtec is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services. Whether it's freight rail, transit, mining, industrial or marine, our expertise, technologies, and people - together - are accelerating the future of transportation.

Wabtec supplies its products, including entire locomotives, to all key markets in the world, both for freight and passenger transport. You can find more information about Wabtec here: www.wabteccorp.com.

JOB TITLE : Life Cycle Cost Analyst
LOCATION : Birkenhead, UK (On-site)
 

Key Aim

To provide support within the Faiveley Transport (FT) Services Division (SER) for the analysis of Life Cycle Cost (LCC) data. To optimise LCC's of rolling stock components and systems as part of scheduled maintenance, overhaul and refurbishment projects.

Responsibilities

• Evaluation and optimisation of LCC data in support of specific project opportunities
• Development of LCC tools to assist with preparation of maintenance / service offers, providing a link to standard FT full cost analysis appraisal tool
• Consolidation and benchmarking of LCC data to allow easy top-level evaluation of LCC documents
• Develop achievable LCC targets for inclusion in bids and tenders
• Agree with FT's Centres of Competence (CofC), optimum component maintenance, overhaul and repair regimes in order to achieve the LCC targets
• Identify improvements to maintenance practices using the principles of reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS), life cycle costs (LCC) and Return on Experience (REX)
• Monitor industry practices to identify process, maintenance and material changes that will improve rolling stock performance and achieve business objectives
• Monitor the existing installed product base, identifying trends and field REX, for feedback to FT's CofC
• Assist in the investigation of service performance issues
• Technical liaison with FT's CofC's
• Building databases and catalogues to improve standardisation and responsiveness
• Working closely with international FT colleagues with RAMS/LCC responsibility

Relationships

• Reports to Senior SER LCC Engineer, with functional responsibility to the Services Business Development Manager (based in FT UK)

Skills/knowledge/competency

• Good analytical skills and ability to communicate findings of complex ideas in a clear and comprehensive manner
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings and schematics
• Advanced Excel skills
• Experience within traction and rolling stock engineering, with an in-depth knowledge of traction and rolling stock maintenance techniques and processes.
• Minimum HNC level in an Engineering or appropriate related subject
• Experience of reliability centred maintenance techniques and implementation would also be desirable.
• Attention to detail
• Language - French , German or Italian
• Problem solving
• Knowledge of FMECA, FTA etc
• IT literate and conversant with Microsoft office
• Prioritising work load and scheduling resources
• Good understanding of LCC
• Ability to work independently and in a team
• Willingness to travel - including international travel (valid passport required)
• Logical approach to work

Other:

The Ideal candidate will have a good teamwork ethic, interpersonal skills, be self motivating and a desire to see continual improvements.

Definitions:

FT - Faiveley Transport

SER - Services Division

LCC - Life Cycle Cost

RAMS - Reliability Availability Maintainability and Safety

CofC - These are the centres of competence within the FT organisation, for the R&D and Design of Original Equipment. (these are sites located around Europe, for Pantographs, Brakes, Couplers, Compressors, HVAC and Door systems)

HVAC - Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning

REX- Return on Experience

Legal authorization to work in the United Kingdom is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

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