Technical Interface Lead for Complex Rail Projects

Alstom; Nigel; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Alstom in South Africa seeks a Technical Interface Manager for the Gautrain project. You will manage the technical contractual scope to meet quality, cost, performance and schedule commitments, and validate design choices with peers and the Solution Director.

You will chair the Project Change Control Board, oversee engineering teams, define organization per the EMP, deploy applicable processes and tools, coordinate interfaces with the core team and ensure BOM, safety case and on-shore support

Responsibilities

• Manage the technical contractual scope of the project ensuring its delivery according to the quality, cost, performance and scheduled commitment originally agreed and, if applicable, updated as a result of negotiated variation orders.
• Be accountable for the customer acceptance of the project solution.
• Manage the project technical risks and the corresponding mitigation plan.
• Together with the Project Manager, in case of contractual scope evolution, rise variation order and manage it.
• Validate the technical design choices with the peers and Solution Director.
• Identify which are the applicable regulations in the customer country/city and ensure they are taken into account in project solution design.
• Ensure, with support of the required experts and involving all stakeholders, that all the technical requirements of the contract are fully addressed throughout the project lifecycle, from the capture stage up to the demonstration.
• Act as a chairman of Project Change Control Board (CCB).
• Be responsible of the project design and application engineering activities.
• Supervise Verification & Validation activities.
• Be accountable for Engineering WP QCD.
• Provide BOM.
• Verify Project Safety Case (scope, strategy and exported constraints).
• Allocate Task(s) across Project Engineering team and ensure engineering activities follow-up.
• Together with Domain / Metier Leaders and RC Project Engineering Metier / Domain Department Heads, define the project engineering team organization according to the project phase (and as defined in the EMP).
• Deploy the applicable engineering process, methods & tools on the project.
• Manage and participate in the evaluation of the project engineering team.
• Share Environment, Health and Security (EHS) rules with project engineering team (receiving inputs from PM/Project EHS Manager/Coordinator or RC EHS Manager).
• Support assessment of the teams involved in project engineering activities, including the ones belonging to a different Regional Center .
• Provide all technical documents to the project core team members for the industrialisation, sourcing, installation, test and commissioning (product BOQ, architecture schematics, ...).
• Provide support to the Project Technical Manager on execution of technical activities on-shore (delegation of responsibility could be defined and formalised in the Engineering Management Plan of the Project).
• Solve technical issues detected by different core team members.
• During project warranty, coordinate actions to support resolution of pending technical issues.

Job description

Alstom in South Africa seeks a Technical Interface Manager for the Gautrain project. You will manage the technical contractual scope to meet quality, cost, performance and schedule commitments, and validate design choices with peers and the Solution Director.

You will chair the Project Change Control Board, oversee engineering teams, define organization per the EMP, deploy applicable processes and tools, coordinate interfaces with the core team and ensure BOM, safety case and on-shore support