Deputy Industrial Manager at Alstom

Job description

The Railway industry today is characterized by both a strong and sustained growth across the world. The trends that drive this are well known: environmental challenges, population growth, urbanization and increasing demands for mobility.

With 6B€ of Sales and around 30,000 employees based in over 60 countries, Alstom develop & market the most complete range of systems, equipment and services offered today in the railway sector. Today we offer our customers solutions that feature a seamless blend of diverse technologies, ensuring optimal interfaces, along with flexible implementation and real synergy in innovation.

Purpose of the Job

Gibela supplies a 600-trains fleet with Technical Support and Spare Supply over 19 years to his customer. The fleet will be spread in 5 depots with 4 different configurations. Gibela will set-up 3 mains repairs centre to address the corrective and preventive maintenance.

In the continuity of the mobilisation phase, this position consist in deploying the Maintenance industrial strategy, to develop industrialisation process and deliver optimum solutions for production systems that maximise the utilisation of tools, systems, and resources within Gibela organisation, with due regard to budgeted costs and safety compliance

Organisation Structure

• See TSSSA organization chart
• Organisational Reporting
• The role reports to TSSSA Industrial Manager
• Network & Links
• Internal 80%
• RSA Compo Production Managers (in Ubunye), Supply Chain Manager, APSYS Manager, Quality Managers, Site Services managers, Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Managers, Materials Managers, Sourcing Department
• External 20%
• Equipment and Tooling Suppliers, Alstom Business Units

Mission
Responsibilities And Accountabilities

• Repair Center
• Define and manage the industrial footprint for repair and overhaul activities
• Set up the first repair workshops for mechanical and electronic part component.
• Reception and commissioning of the repairs tools.
• Secure the infrastructure in conformance with EHS rules
• Plan and organize the ramp-up activity for the repair centers including potential external business.
• Optimization of CAPEX
• Process Industrialization
• Deploy the industrial local processes & layout (SOS, task sequence, workstation organization) following the Make or Buy Business Case decisions.
• Ensure proper execution of industrial strategy in the operation
• Set the local standards & deployment plan and ensure homogeneous deployment
• Prepare, revise & challenge the overall capacity (equipment follow up & people workload)
• Data Industrialization
• Be actor of the industrial data management: GSI industrial data set up (parts, tools, BOM, routing…)
• In charge of the configuration management: set up configuration data, change management implementation (impact on processes & means), handover/delivery data management, derogation management

Performance & Efficiency

• Drive performance improvement & efficiency while reducing wastes (productivity plan follow up, method time evolution recording, workstation optimization…)
• Industrial KPI dashboard : ensure reporting, define & roll out the local action plan, ensure implementation on the field
• Make sure to apply the right footprint & make or buy solution, based on Industrial recommendation
• Prepare the CAPEX request & follow up the site investment program
• Continuous Improvement & APSYS
• Lead Services Industrial Excellence & Continuous improvement program in the unit
• Train, deploy & animate on the site the CI
• Depot and Warranty
• To support warranty activity in PRASA depot under the direction of the PrWM.
• Contribute to the AZDP deployment in the PRASA depot in collaboration with the Depot manager, PrWM and Client
• Reception of the tooling necessary to perform the warranty duty
• Optimize warranty coverage within the depots
• Support the Reliability Growth campaign.
• Take over the industrial manager during his absence.

Measurement

• Macro planning of the project respect of the schedule (OTIF)
• Implement the Industrial KPI to follow up activity (Productivity, Non Value Added time reduction, Time to Repair, Saturation, APSYS, IFR, CAPEX execution …)
• Improvement of Labour LCC
• Faster mobilisation and industrialisation
• QCD of the Industrial WP

Candidate Requirements

Educational Requirements

Minimum of Engineering degree / Equivalent or relevant experience.

Experience

• Industrial expertise
• Project management (or technical project management).
• Process development and optimization
• Preferably Component or Rolling stock operations/maintenance.
• Strong ability to manage teams
• Demonstrated skill in team building and people development.
• Budget setting and control.
• Problem solving

Desired Knowledge

• Minimum of ten years’ experience in industrial management.
• Project planning and Project management skill and experience.
• Strong IT skills, including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project.
• Rail safety and railways standards knowledge preferred
• LCC/RAMS experience is a plus

Behaviour

• Logical and organised
• Proactive and dynamic – able to work under pressure
• Team spirit with strong communication and presentation skills
• Forward personality with common sense and resilience
• Desire to learn and develop

Real possibilities. Real contribution. Influence the future. Do you want to catapult your career to new heights? The Gibela Rail Transport Consortium (Pty) Ltd could be the vehicle for your career success. At Gibela, your future is yours to define.

Gibela Rail Transport Consortium RF (Pty) Ltd is committed to diversifying its staff profile in terms of its transformation agenda and encourages candidates from previously disadvantaged backgrounds to apply. More about Gibela: www.gibela-rail.com

More about Alstom www.alstom.com.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Alstom is a drug-free workplace.