Hardware Design Engineer

Req ID: 491196

Location: Mansfield, NG17 1JF (Onsite)

Appointment Basis: Permanent

Salary: c.£45K + Benefits

Closing Date: 16th October 2026

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, more than 86 000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and help shape the future of hardware engineering at Alstom. You’ll report to the Head of Engineering and play a vital role in delivering timely hardware engineering designs for a variety of electronic systems. Collaborating closely with internal teams and external customers, you’ll ensure high standards in health and safety, efficiency, cost, innovation, and service levels while addressing any hardware engineering issues that may arise. You will raise overall standards in Hardware engineering performance using best practice Hardware design methods and continuous improvement (CI) tools.

We’ll look to you for the following:

• Provide hardware engineering support for a range of electronics systems, ensuring designs meet the correct specifications and quality standards.
  
• Liaise with production, project teams, and external customers to ensure engineering activities align with site objectives and budget levels.
  
• Lead or assist in technical investigations into hardware engineering challenges, delivering timely and high-quality solutions.
  
• Recommend changes to specifications and processes to improve product reliability and operational performance.
  
• Represent the Engineering team in both internal and external meetings, collaborating to resolve engineering challenges effectively.
  
• Support the introduction of new hardware designs from planning through to full implementation.
• To ensure full compliance with UK Health and Safety Regulations.
• To ensure full compliance with ALSTOM Electronics quality standards.
• Ensure KPI targets for Right First Time (RFT), efficiency, cost and service are consistently achieved.

All about you

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

• A good understanding of Electronics analogue & digital design disciplines, together with Health and Safety and quality standards is required
• Electronics hardware design experience within a relevant electronics business, using best practice design methods, value engineering and CI techniques.
• Education in Electronics Engineering to Degree level or equivalent.
• Must be a “driven”, well disciplined, logical thinking, self motivated, team player, able to communicate at all levels and above all be highly “innovative” in delivering high standards in Electronics hardware design.
• Excellent standards of Electronics hardware design, technical ability, communication.
• Personal discipline, Health & Safety, time management, problem solving and continuous improvement.
• A high level of customer focus is critical.

Things you’ll enjoy

Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:

• Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
• Contribute to innovative projects
• Utilise our agile working environment
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension)
• Up to 52 weeks full maternity and adoption pay
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday
• A wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

Equal opportunity statement:

Alstom is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.

As a “disability confident leader accredited employer”, we will interview all disabled job applicants who match the essential criteria of the job description or specification.

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