Facilities Maintenance Technician at Alstom

Your future role

• Take on a new challenge and apply your maintenance expertise in a cutting-edge environment. You’ll work alongside dedicated, innovative, and collaborative teammates.
• You'll play a key role in ensuring the reliability, safety, and efficiency of our facility systems and infrastructure. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (such as Supply Chain, Production, and Quality), oversee the performance of facility contractors, and implement continuous improvement initiatives to drive operational excellence.
• You’ll specifically take care of maintaining and monitoring facility systems, as well as supporting improvement and refurbishment projects, but also ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards.

We’ll look to you for:

• Performing planned, preventative, and corrective maintenance on mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic equipment.
• Ensuring maximum availability and reliability of production equipment, utilities, and facility systems.
• Conducting root cause analysis on equipment failures and implementing corrective actions.
• Maintaining and monitoring facility utility systems, including electrical distribution and compressed air systems.
• Supervising contractors to ensure safety, compliance, and quality workmanship.
• Proposing and supporting energy-saving and cost-reduction projects involving utilities and services.

All about you

• We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill.

Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

• Trade Qualification as a Millwright.
• IT literacy (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Copilot).
• English fluency.
• Maintenance background with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in electrical maintenance.
• Experience maintaining gas-heated spray booths, shot blast machines, and welding machines.
• Knowledge of installation rules and regulations (SANS 10142).
• Familiarity with HV switching and switching procedures.
• Working knowledge of Quality and Health & Safety standards and systems.
• Strong planning, organizational, and communication skills.
• Self-motivation and adaptability to change.

​​​​​​​Things you’ll enjoy 

• Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career.

You’ll also:

• Enjoy stability, challenges, and a long-term career free from boring daily routines.
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues.
• Contribute to innovative projects.
• Utilise our dynamic and inclusive working environment.
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries.
• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning.
• Progress towards leadership or specialized technical roles.
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognizes your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension).