Technical Interface Manager_RST_Gautrain

ALSTOM Gruppe; 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.

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Technical Interface Manager_RST_Gautrain

Date: 5 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.

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