Project Engineer

Alstom; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in the rail industry as a Project Engineer, where you'll manage digital services tenders and projects. Collaborate with a motivated team to ensure project success and contribute to innovative solutions. Enjoy a stable career with growth opportunities and a competitive benefits package.

Benefits

Pension

Contributed Healthcare

Life Assurance

Flexible benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in the railway industry.
• Experience in leading and managing teams.

Responsibilities

• Ensure successful delivery of projects within specified requirements.
• Prepare technical offers within the Digital Services scope.

Skills

Strong commercial and financial awareness

Excellent planning skills

Education

Degree or Equivalent in Engineering discipline

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Alstom Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Req ID: 482033

Location: Derby

Appointment Basis: Permanent

Apply by:- 16/05/25

Excellent Salary + Benefits Include: Pension, Contributed Healthcare, Life Assurance, plus many flexible benefits.

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, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Alstom is the UK & Ireland’s leading supplier of new trains and train services, and a leading signalling and rail infrastructure provider. Alstom have built, or are building, just under 40% of the UK mainline train fleet. We provide the widest range of smart solutions in the rail market, from innovative high-speed rolling stock, metros and trams to maintenance, modernisation, infrastructure and signalling.

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your expertise within Project Engineering in a new cutting-edge field within the Rail industry. Reporting into the D&IS Digital Services Tenders & Project Director, you’ll work alongside highly motivated professionals within the Digital Team committed to best in class performance in the D&IS Product Line by leading, managing and coordinating the main Digital Services Tenders and Project activities whilst fostering our values of agility, inclusivity and responsibility.

We’ll look to you for:

Ensuring the successful delivery of projects withing the specified requirements, budget, and schedule. Additionally, you will act as a key coordination point for both internal and external stakeholders involved in the development and support of solutions for the digital scope of tenders and projects.

What are my key responsibilities?

• Prepare technical offers within the Digital Services scope to support tenders globally
• Define tender budgets and develop business cases to demonstrate positive return on investment for tender
• Conduct regular project meeting with internal stakeholders, to ensure effective communication and collaboration
• Liaise with support teams to address and resolve open project issues
• Prepare and update governance reports encompassing financial, delivery and technical KPIs
• Serving as an ambassador for the Digital Services portfolio, promoting its benefits and capabilities
  
  

All About You

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

• Degree or Equivalent in Engineering discipline.
• Experience in the railway industry
• Strong commercial and financial awareness
• Advanced MS Office skills (Excel, Word, Project)
• Experience in leading and managing teams
• Excellent planning skills
  
  

Desirable Technical Knowledge / Experience

• Hold business related qualification
• Experience in services orientated business
  
  

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
• 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)
  
  

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!

What we offer

Application Process

The talent team are reviewing applications on an ongoing basis and the role will close as soon as a suitable person has successfully passed the assessment process. To be considered please send in your application as early as possible.

Equal opportunity statement:

Important to note

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' employer, we will interview all disabled job applicants who match the essential criteria of the job description or specification. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Truck Transportation and Railroad Equipment Manufacturing

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