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Technical Advisor
Wabtec
Dampier, Western Australia, AU
Wabtec supplies freight and transit rail equipment, mining equipment systems, and digital predictive maintenance and safety technologies, with headquarters in Pittsburgh and facilities worldwide.
Wabtec is a global provider of equipment, systems and digital solutions for freight rail, transit rail and mining operations. Its mining operations equipment and systems business supplies machinery and integrated systems for mining customers, alongside locomotives, freight cars and transit rail systems used to move goods and people. The company traces its origins to 1869 and has operated for over 150 years, with headquarters in Pittsburgh and facilities worldwide.
Technical work spans locomotive engineering, transit systems engineering, mining equipment systems and software-hardware integration. The company also develops digital intelligence and predictive maintenance solutions, emissions reduction technologies and rail safety systems, applying software to improve the performance and safety of heavy equipment in the field.
Wabtec's workforce includes engineers, manufacturers and technologists working across hardware and software disciplines in cross-functional teams. The company operates across the freight rail, transit rail, mining, transportation and logistics sectors, and identifies sustainability and emissions reduction as central to its work, citing rail as one of the more sustainable ways to move goods and people.