Technical Interface Manager

RailBays; Nigel; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Alstom is seeking a Senior Project Engineer to own the technical contractual scope and lead the project engineering team through the full lifecycle of railway solutions. You will manage risk, ensure regulatory alignment, and drive design choices with peers and the Solution Director.

The role requires a Master in Project Engineering Management and a strong engineering background with customer-facing experience in contractual environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science/Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• Master in Project Engineering Management or equivalent.
• Engineering background with end-to-end project deployment experience.
• Hands-on team management experience, either functional or hierarchical.
• Cost and planning control experience within engineering scope.
• Experience managing customer relationships in contractual contexts.
• Knowledge of products/services across Urban, Mainline, F&M segments.
• Safety background and awareness.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage the technical contractual scope to meet quality, cost, delivery and performance commitments.
• Oversee project solution customization and configuration to satisfy QCDP targets.
• Lead the Project Engineering team and allocate engineering tasks.
• Interface with the project core team and support industrialization, sourcing, installation, testing and commissioning.
• Supervise verification and validation activities and ensure engineering plan compliance.
• Coordinate change control and maintain documentation through the Engineering Management Plan.

Skills

Contract management

Project leadership

Engineering management

Risk management

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder management

Safety awareness

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Master in Project Engineering Management

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering/Computer Science

Job description

Required Experience Master in Project Engineering Management

Job Category Systems Integration

Posted 11 Oct 2026

Full Job Description

YOUR FUTURE ROLE

• 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.

WE’LL LOOK TO YOU TO:

MANAGE THE TECHNICAL CONTRACTUAL SCOPE OF THE PROJECT:

• 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

MANAGE THE PROJECT SOLUTION, INCLUDING THE CUSTOMIZATION AND SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION OF THE GENERIC SOLUTION TO MEET QUALITY, COST, DELIVERY AND PERFORMANCE (QCDP) COMMITMENTS:

• 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)

FUNCTIONALLY LEAD THE PROJECT ENGINEERING TEAM:

• 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.

MANAGE THE INTERFACE WITH THE PROJECT CORE TEAM:

• 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 following Project Warranty Manager (PrWM) requirements
• Support PrQSM to consolidate the REX of the Project and the Reliability Growth
• Support RC Project Engineering Domain/Metiers Department Head to define/perform knowledge capitalization

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS:

• Project QCDP (quality, cost, delivery and performance)
• Project Specification, including Design documents & Projects V&V documents approval status
• Project requirement database maturity (it covers “traceability & coverage of requirements by V&V”)
• Engineering management plan application
• Assessment results based on internal audits and process inspections (applied in the project)

ALL ABOUT YOU

We value passion and attitude as much as experience. You do not need to meet every requirement; the following qualifications and experience will help you succeed and grow in this role:

• Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Engineering, Computer Science or scientific subjects or
• Master in Project Engineering Management
• Engineering background including project deployment full lifecycle view
• Hands-on experience on functional or hierarchical team management
• Cost and planning control experience in engineering scope
• Hands-on experience on Customer relationship in contractual situations
• Products and services knowledge on different market segments (Urban, Mainline, F&M)
• Safety background

THINGS YOU’LL ENJOY

Join us on a lifelong, transformative journey. The rail industry is built for the future, giving you opportunities to grow, develop new skills, and gain diverse experience throughout your career.

COMPETENCIES & SKILLS

• Basic overall knowledge of railway products
• Analytical and critical thinking
• Problem-solving ability
• Resilience
• Agility to juggle with schedules simulations, various scenarios, and changing project goals.
• Rigorous, structured and sense of anticipation
• Good Communications, interpersonal and leadership skills, excellent team worker
• Conflict management and multi-tasking,
• Be able to challenge industrial teams and highly proactive in proposing solutions.
• Comfortable in an international and a multi-cultural environment.
• Balanced skills between management, industrial management and project management
• Strong leadership and ability to federate teams on technical orientations to reach QCD targets
• Demonstrated capacity to lead cross-functional activities and numerous/various stakeholders
• Ability for analysis, problem-solving and efficient decision-making in complex environment
• Ability to work across sites in a multi-cultural environment

YOU’LL ALSO:

• Build a stable, challenging, long-term career with varied work.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and supportive colleagues.
• Contribute to innovative projects.
• Shape your career across functions and countries.
• Benefit from award-winning learning and development opportunities.
• Receive a fair, dynamic reward package that recognises performance and potential, together with comprehensive and competitive social coverage.

Source

Original vacancy published byAlstom.Please refer to the official employerwebsite for current information.