Quality Technician, TSSSA at Alstom

• We invite suitably qualified candidates to apply for Industrial Quality Technician position under Services department. The position will report the Industrial Quality Manager and is based in Midrand.

Job Purpose

• To perform quality inspections and ensure product compliance with customer and internal specifications, preventing bottlenecks and minimising downtime.
• Deploy industrial quality standards across maintenance processes and support the maintenance activities to meet quality requirements and  targets.
• Identify defects, isolate non-conforming products, initiate corrective and preventive actions and qualify cross functional teams on Quality Methodologies.

Quality Governance

• Attendance of Quality Governance within the project
• Consistency with Quality animation (Top 5 defects animation). Analyze and find the root cause of repetitive non compliancy / reworks – QRQC methods
• Update and archiving of Quality records on SharePoint
• Train Cross Functional Team on Quality Tools/Methodologies
• Attendance and participation in the Special Process Audits and Maturity Assessments
• Attend the daily meeting in the workshop and animate Quality topics
• Updates of various performance reports

Quality Systems

• Maturity of APSYS and other Quality requirements (i.e. QMS, Special process, Calibration of Tooling)
• Maintenance Induced Errors (MIE)
• Quality Management System
• Supplier Quality Management
• Management of GSI, PST, SES
• Competency Maturity  

Operational Quality Management

• Conduct monthly workstation audits to ensure production adheres to work instructions, validate measuring tools, check the calibration status and confirm compliance with Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) standards.
•  PFMEA and Quality Control Planning – Setting up and maintenance of quality controls for all activities. Ensure respect of the Control Plan and Self Inspection at each workstation.
• Definition of Quality Control Plan based on Customer Acceptance Criteria, Criticality Matrix, FMEA, CTQ, FMR/SMR/FAI, REX and Kx
• Quality Inspections – Incoming Material, in-process and final product (number of reworks, missing parts, NCR, derogations, modifications, FAC)
• Self-Inspection deployment and effectiveness 
• Quality Inspection of final product before the release for delivery
• Joint Inspections with customer and sharing of EMD reports
• Workstation Audits – Plan and conduct Workstation Audit per audit plan based on criticality
• Non-conformity and MIE treatment – Create Non-Conformity Report in the GSI system and ensure the 8D Problem Solving Tool is defined up to CONQ
• Customer Interface Activities – Joint Inspections, Customer Engagements
• Return of experience at the workstation – to highlight areas of improvement & recommend possible corrective action.
• Create inspection reports for all inspected products and share inspection/audit outcome - closure and validation on reworks done
• Innovation and continuous improvement projects focusing on low performing Quality KPIs and CONQ reduction

Minimum Requirements

• National Diploma in Industrial, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Quality Management or equivalent.
• 3 Years’ experience in quality inspections, use of measuring instruments and interpretation of engineering drawings.

Special Requirements

• May be required to travel and work in other service depots covering industrial and supplier quality support
• Incumbent may be required to work outside normal working hours

Closing Date

• 01 October 2026