Maintenance Electrical Engineer at Alstom

Job Purpose

• To Execute the Services Engineering activities in the project and main interface between product development Engineering team (Rolling Stock) and manage both the Integrated Services Readiness (ISR) and Maintenance Teams on deliverables during the product development phase.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure all Work Instructions (WI), Maintenance Instructions, Maintenance and Safety Bulletins including all other associated Risk assessments necessary are produced to the relevant standard and presented for sign off in a timely manner.
• Produce clear and concise technical documentation in the form of specifications, test procedures, modification instructions, maintenance and safety instructions and technical reports.
• Lead optimisation of the maintenance schedule and casualty repair procedures in light of service experience and Operations feedback including (Justification of inspection periodicity, Specification of materials and tools).
• Carrying out product/process audits of depot maintenance and casualty repairs.
• Assist PRASA and GIBELA Front office as necessary to diagnose train defects where technicians require guidance.
• Escort the Customer during Routine Condition Audits and undertake product and process audits as required ensuring the integrity of the fleet and maintenance processes.
• Manage the production and maintenance of the Bill of Material (BoM), and WI.
• Manage the production of the preventive & corrective & overhaul Life Cycle Cost (LCC).
• Continually review all Maintenance, Reliability, Overhaul and associated documents to ensure all are up to date and correctly formatted.
• Assist in parts identification, creation of DTR numbers and obsolescence management.
• Produce, update training material, and perform training as trainer to PRASA & GIBELA team and any other GIBELA training needs.
• Act as a technical expert continuously develop expertise in selected field.
• Continuously improve Training material and sustain Trainer qualification to provide Training courses to PRASA at the expected service level.
• Obtain Training accreditation i.e. (SETA, TETA, etc)
• Support the Hotline / Help desk service to PRASA at the expected service level.

Minimum Requirements

• BSc or B.Eng. Degree (Electrical/Mechatronics Engineering).
• Knowledge of rail and subsystem engineering.
• Safety and Engineering standards knowledge, rail knowledge is advantageous. 
• Knowledge of Reliability, Accessibility and Maintainability Aspects 
• Life Cycle Cost/ Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS) experience.
• Working knowledge of safety management systems and safety risk assessments. 
• Proficient in the use of MS Office, SAP (System Analysis Program)/GSI (Global Simple Instance) 
• Problem Solving capacity (Technical and cost evaluation of a solution) 
• Capacity of managing Technical Risks 
• Solid decision making and critical thinking.