Group Manager Wayside Engineering

Alstom; Hässleholms kommun; On-site; SEK 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Comprehensive social coverage (life, 1

Career development and learning

Job summary

Alstom in Hässleholm, Sweden, seeks a Wayside Group Manager to lead a team of engineers across the product lifecycle for safety-critical embedded solutions.

You will drive Delivery, quality, and staffing while coordinating with cross-functional leaders to meet commitments and improve processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering.
• Min. 5 years of leadership experience.
• Strong team management skills and English proficiency.
• Experience with Systems Engineering in embedded products.
• Familiarity with safety standards such as EN50126/EN50128/EN50129.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage Development and Test activities for Wayside Product Development.
• Align the Solution roadmap with internal execution strategy.
• Develop customer relationships to align long-term roadmaps and ensure continuous improvements.
• Coach and mentor team members to support their professional growth.
• Ensure on-time delivery and high quality across teams.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Communication

Diversity & inclusion

English fluency

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering

Tools

Systems Engineering

Embedded products

Safety standards EN50126/EN50128/EN50129

Job description

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Group Manager Wayside Engineering

Date: 13 Oct 2026

Company: Alstom

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

Join us as aWayside Group ManagerinHässleholm,Sweden,to lead our team of Engineers responsible for Product Development for our safety critical embedded products.

Our teams are responsible for the entire product life cycle from Product Management, Requirement Management, System Architecture and System design, Software development, verification and validation for our wayside projects.

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your leadership expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll report to Head of Wayside and manage a team of skilled Engineers. You'll play a key role in delivering high-quality wayside solutions to customers around the world within a dynamic environment. You’ll be involved in ensuring that the team has the necessary resources for optimal performance, focusing on effective workflows, processes, tools, skills development and appropriate staffing. Also, you’ll make sure that your team has the right environment and capability to ensure Quality and On time delivery. You will collaborate with Wayside leadership team consisting of Project Managers, System Engineering-, SW Development- and V&V Group Managers to ensure a high performing and innovative environment.

Join us if you are innovative, knowledge seeking and have a passion for problem solving. We want you to question our solutions and way of working, to come up with new creative ideas for market leading rail solutions.

We'll look to you for:

• Lead and manage Development and Test activities for Wayside Product Development.
• Support alignment of the Solution roadmap with internal execution strategy.
• Develop customer relationships to align long-term roadmaps and ensure continuous improvements in both quality and functionality.
• Visual Management to monitor and address issues and risks of your team deliveries
• Escalating risks or events that could impact QCD (Quality, Cost, Delivery) commitments
• Organizing and leading Systems Engineering reviews
• Managing commitments and changes related to requirements
• Develop ways of working to adhere to Alstom processes and tools to be aligned with all stakeholders.
• Ensure the quality and accuracy of our deliverables, innovate and improve on our existing solutions.
• Identifying improvement areas and driving actions to enhance development success
• Promote a safe and healthy work environment.
• Manage capacity and competence planning in close collaboration with the development programs.
• Build capabilities to drive the development of railway signaling solutions.
• Communicate effectively with clients and stakeholders.
• Coach and mentor team members to support their professional growth, strengthen technical expertise, and enable career development.
• Foster a collaborative team through knowledge sharing, team work, diversity and inclusion.

All about you:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering.
• At least 5 years of experience in leadership.
• Strong team management skills.
• Experience working with Systems Engineering in embedded products.
• Experience of testing or/and development in safety-critical or other complex systems development.
• Experience withHardware, Software and environmental development.
• Experience mentoring and developing System Engineers.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion.
• English at a fluent level is mandatory for this role, Swedish will be considered a plus.
• Experience with safety standards such as CENELEC (EN50126, EN50128, EN50129) or equivalent is a plus.

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.
• 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 recognizes 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!

Important to note

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.