Senior Welding Engineer - Nigel at Alstom

Purpose of the job

• To coordinate the industrial control of the Welding Special Processes (SP) during tender phase, product development, industrialization, manufacturing and warranty.
• To contribute to technology and activity transfers.

Activities by step of the industrial process: 

Tender:

• Contribute to tender phase, especially in product design and industrialization to take into account industrial constraints and requirements in order to optimize costs and minimize risks.

Concurrent Engineering:

• Contributes during specification and design phases to technical solution decisions associated to special processes.
• Build the SP REX and interact with product engineering to redirect the design if necessary.

Industrialization:

• Manage industrial risk through Process FMEA and associated improvement action plan.
• Define requirements and rules for associated tooling necessary to start production.
• Qualify the product/process pair as well as industrial means to be put in place in line with the design.
• Support sourcing and SQD teams in the suppliers’ qualification and in quality follow up for suppliers concerned by SP. Contribute to development of local suppliers.
• Manage evolution of quality control process dedicated to Welding SP.
• Ensure deployment and validation of new processes in line with project planning
• Issue relevant documents in the Quality System.
• Manages welding engineers & technicians that are under his/her responsibility.
• Perform Transfer of Technology on SP: documentation, process and means validation, training.

Transmission:

• Train the workers and EPU managers to execute Welding SP.
• Ensure continuous training and permanent qualification of the workers to Welding SP.
• Train support functions to business rules linked to Welding SP (Engineering, PME, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Quality)

Execution / Serial manufacturing:

• Guarantees internal control and good application of process rules in line with customers’ requirements.
• Thus performs internal and external audits.
• Ensure day to day monitoring of Welding SP business rules and solve issues concerning Welding.
• In case of non-conformity or incident, investigate root causes, finds and implement repair solutions.
• Demonstrate QCD and EHS improvement linked to Welding SP through efficient action plans. Measure performance linked with site industrial objectives and through APSYS audit for instance.
• Support Sourcing and Supplier Quality teams during quality crisis.

Transverse

• Participate to meetings and working groups of the Welding SP network.
• Propose improvement ideas and evolution of the business rules of their domain.

Responsibilities

• In case of major Welding SP quality crisis (major technical risk, safety or financial), the expert must provide to the project manager, factually, a clear problem analysis (root causes, associated risks) and the options to exit the crisis, to enable him taking serenely position.
• He/She has the duty to control his/her external communication (written and oral) as it engages the responsibility
• of AT towards third parties.

Educational Requirements

• BSc/BEng/BTech in Mechanical/Electrical/Metallurgy/Materials
• MEng in Welding is an added advantage
• International Welding Engineer (IWE) accreditation

Desired Knowledge / Experience

• 5 years’ experience in Welding manufacturing environment
• Very good knowledge of welding and NDT standards such as EN 15085, EN 15614, ISO 9712, EN 9606,
• AWS, ASME
• Knowledge and experience in Alstom Transport Special Process management is an added advantage
• Proven experiance in managing/leading technical teams

Behavioural Competencies

• Independent, rigorous, good communication.
• Good teaching skills (able to provide training to a group of trainees).
• Innovative, participative in business workgroups.
• Able to read, write and speak English