Depot Engineer - Pretoria at Alstom

Minimum Requirements

• B SC or B Eng. Degree (in Mechanical or Electronics or Mechatronics or Electrical Engineering) with 3 years working experience in the rail industry OR    B Tech (in Mechanical or Electronics or Mechatronics or Electrical Engineering) with 5 working experiences in the rail industry.
• Registered or Registerable as a Professional Engineer or Technologist with ECSA.
• Life Cycle Cost/RAMS experience.
• Prognostic Tools (Centralised Fleet Maintenance (CFM), Health Hub (HH) or equivalent tools for remote fleet monitoring program), System Application and Products (SAP).
• Knowledge of problem-solving techniques (8D, Ishikawa, 5 whys, QRQC).
• Abstract knowledge of engineering design processes, engineering drawings and interpretation software documentations.
• Ability to demonstrate technical curiosity and able to discuss with the project team.
• Trouble-shooting experience on technical issues.

Main Responsibilities

• Assuring the technical support to the projects.
• Resolving technical problems by identifying root causes and develop robust solutions that are right first time.
• Feeding the Central Engineering with pre-processed data for improvement of the train reliability and maintenance plan.
• Escalating repetitive failures to central Engineering.
• Managing the central continuous improvement flow of issues raised at the depots and liaise with the Central Engineering team for solutions.
• Proposing innovative solutions and implements solutions in the projects.
• Managing technical points raised by Customer and Gibela team in Web-Portal tool.
• Allocating and reviewing weekly faults with the customer.
• Flagging Potential Service Affecting Failures (SAF) to the business.
• Updating SAP with all confirmed and agreed failure notifications.
• Leading contractual technical investigations and recoveries for major EMD (Excluded Matter Damage).
• Tracking all measurements analysis KPI’s in depot relating to Central Engineering.
• Supporting field modifications for complex solutions.
• Supporting Supplier Quality at the depot for complex investigations and non-conformance (NCR) claims.
• Providing Technical support to  Reliability Growth through investigations and data analysis.
• Providing Technical support to Warranty Field Engineer in order to ensure maximum train availability.

Measurements (Key Performance Indicators)

• Quality Cost Delivery (QCD) targets according to Project.
• On-Time in Full (OTIF) targets.
• Project reliability / availability / cost targets.
• Maintenance plan and design improvement.
• Feedback from internal and external stakeholders.