Depot Engineer (KZN) at Alstom

Job Purpose

• Manage be part of Engineering, looking for the improvement of the reliability and availability of the fleet 
• Provide technical advisory services to resolve technical issues at the Depot level, ensuring Quality, Cost and Delivery (QCD) requirements are met and be the link between Gibela and the Customer to resolve issues that need Engineering support.
• Propose ideas for Life Cycle Cost (LCC) improvements either on product design, process and tools through technical data analysis from commercial service (during warranty and out of warranty),
• Support Engineering activities in the project at depot level.
• Coordinate with Central Engineering functional tests, train validation as per all test or validation requests.

Technical Support

• Review all commercial faults with the customer and agree on responsibility depot engineer and the customer’s depot engineer meet to review all the faults that have been fixed.
• Resolve technical problems within the depot by identifying root causes and developing robust solutions that are right first time
• Validate and provide performance report on all applied reliability solutions
• Investigate repetitive failures and determine if they are either corrective or fleet defect issues.
• Provide technical support to field investigations for root cause identification
• Propose innovative solutions and implements solutions in the projects
• Manage technical points raised by Customer and Gibela team in Web-Portal tool or any other tool available
• Allocate and review weekly faults with the customer
• Flag Potential Service Affecting Failures (SAF) to the business
• Update SAP with all confirmed and agreed failure notifications
• Lead contractual technical investigations and recoveries for Major EMD
• Tracks all measurements analysis KPI’s in depot relating to Central Engineering
• Support field modifications for complex solutions
• Supports Supplier Quality at the depot for complex investigations and non-conformance (NCR) claims
• Technical support for Reliability Growth through investigations and data analysis.
• Reliability target as per contract are met monthly.
• Daily commercial service targets are me.
• Customer survey targets are met.

Minimum Requirements

• BSc / BEng / BTech (Mechanical or Electronics or Mechatronics or Electrical Engineering) or similar relevant qualification.

3 years experience in?: 

• RAMS.
• Prognostic Tools (Centralised Fleet Maintenance (CFM), Health Hub (HH) or equivalent tools for remote fleet monitoring program).
• Microsoft Office (Excel, Power Point, Word...)
• System Application and Products (SAP).
• Working knowledge of safety management systems and risk assessment..
• Abstract knowledge engineering design processes, engineering drawings and interpretation software
• Registered or Registerable as a Professional Engineer/Technologist with ECSA.
• 2 years experience in rail safety and railways standards knowledge preferred. (advantageous)
• 2 years Fault Finding and Technical support experience. (advantageous)

Special Requirements

• Incumbent will be required to travel to client depots, suppliers and the customer.

Closing Date

• 11 March 2026