Advanced Lead Engineer

Ownership and key responsibilities: • Acquire, validate, reconcile, and prepare reliability and operational data from multiple internal and external sources. • Develop and maintain deterministic and probabilistic models to evaluate component reliability and predict failure rates throughout contract lifecycles. • Generate life forecasting analyses and provide recommendations to support contract profitability and maintenance planning. • Partner with global teams to ensure accuracy, completeness, and quality of engineering and operational data. • Design and implement numerical and analytical tools to improve reliability calculations and engineering productivity. • Create dashboards, reports, and data visualizations to communicate reliability trends, risks, and performance indicators. • Serve as hardware owner for assigned engine or locomotive components, maintaining technical expertise and ownership of reliability performance. • Support internal customers by performing engineering calculations, reliability studies, and statistical analyses. • Participate in technical reviews as a presenter, reviewer, and technical contributor. • I dentify process gaps and improvement opportunities, leading digitization and automation initiatives where appropriate. • Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance to less experienced team members. Main Authorities and Missions: • Serve as a key member of the Freight Services MSA Finance team, providing engineering expertise in material modeling, component reliability analysis, and life forecasting. • Drive data-based decision making by developing and maintaining reliability models that support Annual Contract Margin Reviews and long-term business planning. • Act as a subject matter expert for reliability engineering, statistical analysis, and durability assessment of locomotive and engine components. • Influence cross-functional teams by providing technical recommendations and reliability insights to support operational, financia