Technical Interface Manager_RST_Gautrain

Alstom; Nigel; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Alstom in South Africa seeks a senior Project Engineer to manage the technical contractual scope of a railway project. You will lead engineering teams, govern change control, and ensure regulatory compliance from design through commissioning.

The role emphasizes risk management, customer acceptance, and technical validation with peers and the Solution Director. You will coordinate with project core teams, verify safety cases, provide BOMs, and support lifecycle demonstrations, tests, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Engineering, Computer Science or scientific subjects.
• 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.
• Customer relationship experience in contractual situations.
• Products and services knowledge on different market segments (Urban, Mainline, F&M).
• Engineering product development full lifecycle view.
• Safety background.

Responsibilities

• Manage the technical contractual scope of the project to meet quality, cost, performance and schedule commitments.
• Be accountable for the customer acceptance of the project solution.
• Manage the project technical risks and the mitigation plan.
• Rise and manage variation orders with the Project Manager.
• Validate technical design choices with peers and Solution Director.
• Identify applicable regulations in customer country/city for project solution design.
• Ensure all technical requirements are addressed throughout lifecycle.
• Act as chair of Project Change Control Board (CCB).
• Provide BOM for the project.
• Verify Project Safety Case.
• Allocate tasks across Project Engineering team and define organization per EMP.
• Deploy engineering processes, methods & tools on the project.
• Evaluate the project engineering team performance.
• Share EHS rules with project engineering team.
• Support assessment of teams across Regional Center.
• Provide technical documents to core team for industrialisation, sourcing, installation, test and commissioning.
• Support Project Technical Manager on on-shore execution of technical activities.
• Resolve technical issues detected by core team.
• Coordinate warranty actions and reliability growth.
• Support knowledge capitalization.

Skills

Project Leadership

Team Management

Risk Management

Contract Management

Quality Assurance

Stakeholder Communication

Cost & Planning Control

Engineering Processes

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Master in Project Engineering Management

Engineering degree (general)

Job description

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 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)
• Engineering product development full lifecycle view
• 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,