Project Product Introduction Manager (PrPIM) at Alstom

Your future role

• Take on a new challenge and apply your project management and engineering expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll work alongside dynamic and collaborative teammates.
• You'll play a pivotal role in managing Project Product Introduction (PI) activities, ensuring reliability growth and achieving warranty closure. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (Project Managers, Quality teams, Engineering teams, and more), represent the PI function within the Project Core Team, and coordinate warranty activities, among other responsibilities.
• You’ll specifically take care of managing the retrofit of the entire fleet to apply the latest Change Requests, but also support engineering solutions on the project.

We’ll look to you for:

• Leading all applicable Product Introduction deliveries and activities as part of the Project Core Team
• Ensuring implementation of PI processes and instructions within the project
• Managing the full Project Warranty Work Package and related reviews
• Achieving contractual reliability targets and warranty closure
• Capturing field experience and feeding back to the project/organization
• Establishing strategies for commissioning and warranty periods
• Managing the PI testing team in Durban
• Coordinating and resolving engineering technical issues with relevant teams
• Ensuring adherence to Alstom Zero Deviation Plan (AZDP) and Customer EHS requirements

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:

• Postgraduate degree in Engineering or Industrial Engineering
• Project management qualifications
• Experience in project execution (technical/industrial) – minimum 10 years in senior positions
• Team management experience – minimum 5 years
• Product knowledge and experience in field operations
• Knowledge of Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety (RAMS)
• Problem-solving skills and data analytics
• Familiarity with EHS regulations and practices
• Proficiency in English
• Desirable: Railway safety/product liability knowledge, contract management experience, and quality/audit skills