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Executive/Senior Engineer, Rolling Stock Engineering

9/1/2025

Provide engineering solutions to reliability problems affecting SMRT Trains and associated equipment. Conduct defect troubleshooting, failure analysis, and develop engineering solutions to identified problems.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

5,001-10,000 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
SMRT Corporation Ltd (SMRT) is a leading public transport services provider in Singapore. As the nation's dominant rail operator, SMRT manages and operates the North-South Line, East-West Line, Circle Line, Thomson-East Coast Line, and Bukit Panjang Light Rail Transit. These services are complemented by its bus, taxi, and private hire vehicle operations. Through Kaizen, SMRT enhances lifestyles by creating vibrant transit destinations for commuters and the communities it serves. In addition, SMRT collaborates with Malaysia's Prasarana to design, build, and subsequently operate, and maintain the RTS Link, which will enhance cross-border connectivity between Singapore and Johor. SMRT's core values are encapsulated in the acronym R.I.S.E, which stands for Respect, Integrity, Safety, Service, and Excellence. SMRT is dedicated to providing safe, reliable, and commuter-centric transport services. Terms of Use: We welcome your comments, constructive feedback and suggestions. We expect that our users follow the Terms of Use and share their opinions respectfully. We do not discriminate against any view, but we reserve the right to remove comments that contain vulgarities, are personal attacks against individuals or are deemed inappropriate and/ or disrespectful towards users of our page. For the purpose of constructive discussions, please note that SMRT reserves the right to remove irrelevant or offensive comments. Users who breach the above-mentioned may also be banned from this page.
About the Role

 

Job Purpose

Provide engineering solutions to reliability problems affecting SMRT Trains, Locomotives and their associated equipment.  Required to independently conduct defect troubleshooting, failure analysis, reliability trending, and develop engineering solutions to the problems identified.

Responsibilities

  1. Work in any SMRT Maintenance Depots or facilities
  1. Work in rotating or fixed shifts 
  1. Work at heights to perform engineering activities
  1. Work effectively with Operations and Maintenance staff from the Lines as well as other engineering departments to investigate defects. To develop methods, propose modifications and improve maintenance strategies to rectify them.  
  1. Analyse and trend condition monitoring and defect data to identify reliability concerns. To develop methods, propose modifications and improve maintenance strategies to overcome them
  1. Draft technical work instructions for preventive and corrective maintenance activities
  1. Identify and implement cost effective technologies to enhance SMRT Trains, Locomotives and Equipment performance
  1. Support LTA and SMRT projects in reviewing project design specifications and ensure their adequacy for the safety, reliability, maintainability and operability
  1. Identify and report any safety concerns at the workplace
  1. Undertake any other tasks or functions that are incidental or ancillary to the performance of the works, as assigned by supervisor.

Qualifications & Work Experience

  1. Degree in Mechanical / Electrical / Electronics Engineering from a recognised institution
  2. Previous Railway System experience would be advantageous

Skills

  1. Strong leadership and interpersonal skills. Comfortable to work hands-on in a maintenance workshops environment alongside other Engineers, Assistant Engineers and Technical Officers.  Must also be able to work in different shift timings, when required. 
  2. Adept with diagnostics and reliability engineering methods such as FMECA, Fault Tree analysis, Weibull analysis and Damage Tolerance Analysis, etc
  3. Strong analytical and decision-making abilities
  4. Effective organizational and planning skills
  5. Fluent in written and oral communication skills in English

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Key Skills
LeadershipInterpersonal SkillsDiagnosticsReliability EngineeringAnalytical SkillsDecision-MakingOrganizational SkillsPlanning SkillsCommunication Skills
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