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Your impact

Our Rail and Transit Team is looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer . By joining our Montreal based team, you’ll be challenged with the opportunity to work on exciting and engaging large-scale transit and rail projects. You’ll have the opportunity to utilize your knowledge of fundamental concepts, practices and procedures to complete your assigned tasks in a team environment.

We’ll look to you to apply basic engineering principles to a variety of transit and rail projects as well as support technical research, specification development, quantity calculations, field inspection and testing programs

You’ll provide engineering support in preparation of technical specifications for functional, sub system testing, maintenance and training requirements for vehicle, signal, communication, power, or subsystem procurements or overhauls. Also, you’ll perform oversight and witnessing of factory testing prior to approval for shipment; log discrepancies and prepare reports for status of system testing

While on site, you’ll monitor field implementation and testing activities for a range of transit and rail assets, and you’ll support System integration of vehicle, signal, communication, and power systems/subsystems from different suppliers for compatibility and functional performance

You’ll utilize your familiarity with transit and rail systems (vehicle, signal, communication, and power) from key suppliers in the market to perform detailed design reviews of product and system submittals. While assessing performance and specification compliance for vehicles, signal, communication, and/or power systems

At Jacobs, we’re partnering across the globe to create the best project outcomes by maximizing the design, digital technology, and support capabilities of our Global Integrated Delivery (GID) teammates. By joining Jacobs, you’ll commit to supporting and engaging with these teams, as we work to build a company like no other.

Here's what you'll need

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical, Electronic, System Engineering or related field
• At least 12+ professional year of experience
• Ability to demonstrate good communication skills, detail oriented, and ability to work independently
• Proficient knowledge of MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint)
• Bilingual (English and French)

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Advanced degree
• Experience on public transportation projects such as rail and public transit vehicles

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

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