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  • Posted: Aug 1, 2022
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • Alstom has been present in South Africa for more than a century. During these years the company provided a wide range of products and technologies which helped develop the country’s infrastructure. Alstom provided equipment for 12 of South Africa’s 13 coal-fired power plants and for the only nuclear power plant, but it also played a historical...
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    Head of Engineering

    Purpose of the job: 

    • Manage and organise Engineering Team according to business needs in-line Gibela guidelines
    • Execute engineering Rolling Stock and Service project according QCD commitments through a strong engineering planning culture
    • Manage workforce according to workload (firm projects, forecast projects, tender, sustaining and R&D) with focus to avoid any underload and high overload including appointment of engineering teams.
    • Drive co-engineering specially with process engineering and co-development with supplier via sourcing
    • Push improvement programs based on technical recommendations (e.g. new methodologies/tools and APSYS engineering) and local initiatives
    • Develop on-site engineering staff including succession planning and competence matrix deployment
    • Apply common processes, methods and tools and capture Return of Experience (RoE) for continuous improvement
    • Supervise products, key technical decisions and safety critical issues and capitalise RoE
    • Monitor project to cost programs such as Redesign to Cost (RDTC) and Maintenance Regime Optimisation
    • Manage cost centre and budget preparation
    • Support and promote innovation initiatives of the business

    Measurement (Key Performance Indicators):

    • KPIs monitored through Site Operation Dashboard (Rolling Stock and Service) and Engineering Dashboards, mainly
    • DFQ Go-On-Time
    • Project Cost
    • OTIF
    • OTIQ
    • DR on-time
    • Reliability in service
    • No. of modifications
    • U/O recovery,
    • Subcontracting schemes per phase
    • Resources vs. Workload
    • APSYS

    Accountable and Responsibilities for:

    Accountable for:

    • Engineering tender commitment and project/R&D engineering QCD
    • Management of site engineering workload and workforce
    • Ethic and compliance
    • EHS in engineering
    • People and resource management
    • Respect of engineering processes, tools and methods
    • KPI targets from RSC and Service dashboard
    • Supervision of key technical decisions and safety critical issues
    • Monitoring of engineering actions in project to cost programs such as Redesign to Cost (RDTC) and Maintenance Regime Optimisation
    • Engineering cost centre
    • Supporting and promoting innovations
    • People management cycle (PMC) on-time and quality of data with associated Training and Development plans to reach target competence level
    • Operational effectiveness/Accountability
    • Collaboration/Teamwork
    • Self-motivated with a positive and professional approach to management

    Responsible for:

    • Management and organization of engineering department
    • Manage interfaces with other stakeholders on-site for co-engineering specially with process engineering and co-development with sourcing/supplier
    • Contribute to site strategy
    • Engineering improvement projects including cooperation and change management
    • Appoint Tenders/Pre-Project and Project Engineering teams
    • Monitor site engineering activity and inform Site Executive and Site Engineering performance about major events
    • Collaborate with Services Engineering and Platforms to improve Services portfolio of products and services
    • Manages the technical performances of the systems and provide REX to relevant Services Platform
    • Detects, defines and implements the modifications of the maintained products to improve the reliability and serviceability, in order to reduce project costs and improve the performances of the systems
    • Manages Obsolescence Plan and execution
    • Captures and ensures ownership of regulations and standards to be applied
    • Interfaces with the stakeholders in the Certification processes
    • Ensure Quality of Engineering Deliverables

    Business understanding and desired knowledge/experience

    Minimum education requirements

    • BSc/B.Eng Degree (Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical, Automotive, Mechatronics) or Equivalent Engineering Degrees
    • Post Graduate Qualification in Management/Leadership 
    • Registered a Professional Engineer with ECSA will be an advantage

    Minimum work experience required

    • More than 8 years’ experience  in Engineering Design
    • More than 5 experinece in management of Engineering Personnel
    • Project management incl. work package, risk and opportunity management

    Minimum technical experience required

    • Practical experience in diverse Engineering design processes (Electrical, Mechanical, Software Development and System Engineering)
    • Practical experience in Product Development in railway environment
    • Knowledge of tools applied in Electrical, Mechanical and software development (Autocad, programming languages, etc.)
    • Knowledge of product maintenance strategies in railway environment
    • Engineering planning and optimisation (Resource vs Workload balance)
    • Experience on product Change and Configuration Management
    • Problem solving methodologies

    Profile:

    • Communication and negotiation skills
    • Good financial understanding
    • Strong Leadership and people management experience
    • Internal/ external customer and results oriented
    • Ability to make decisions with sense of urgency
    • Structured and organised

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