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  • Posted: Feb 27, 2025
    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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    Technical Support Engineer

    PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

    • Maintenance technical support, supports Services tenders & projects in the Engineering area.

    POSITION IN THE ORGANIZATION –

    MAIN OFFICE LOCATION:

    • Located in Nigel (Ekurhuleni) at the production site 
    • May also be required to visit suppliers and other Alstom sites/offices

    NETWORK LINKS

    Internal

    • Services Platform, Bid Managers, Project Managers, Depot Managers,
    • Technical teams, Supply Chain, Industrial, Quality

    External

    • Suppliers
    • Customers

    KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

    • Supply engineering resource/skills to support tenders and projects.
    • Collaborates with Services Engineering and Platforms, to improve the Services portfolio of products and services.
    • Participates actively in the Services Engineering network.
    • Assures the technical support to the projects.
    • Optimises the scope and related tasks of the Maintenance plan.
    • Supports cost reduction actions, with sourcing and industrial.
    • 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.
    • Proposes innovative solutions and develops and implements R&D programs and new technologies in the maintenance projects.
    • Analyses the technical performances of the systems and the efficiency of the maintenance plan and processes, promoting action plans to improve them.
    • Propose actions to optimise Maintenance plans and LCC.
    • Searches for improvement actions in maintenance operations, performing engineering interface activities with Operations Engineers (depot support).
    • Promotes the use of latest maintenance technics and R&D developments (CBM, RCM, Lean).
    • Participates in the REX process.
    • Analyses failure criticality studies and uses RCM (Reliability Centred Maintenance) and other available methodologies to define and optimize the maintenance requirements, tasks and intervals.
    • Analyses and integrates data coming from Operations (Return on Experience).
    • Manages interface with other Product Lines’ Metiers.
    • Improve Services Engineering tools & processes

    PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS:

    • TD, QCD, PMC, Project reliability / availability / cost targets
    • Feedback from stakeholders

    EXPERIENCE PREREQUISITES & REQUIRED COMPETENCES

    EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

    • University degree in Railway Engineering, Electronics, Computer Science, Automation Engineering or Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

    EXPERIENCE

    Mandatory:

    • 1-3 years of experience in Railways system/Application engineering
    • Knowledge of rolling stock equipment

    Desirable:

    • Knowledge of rolling stock maintenance
    • Working knowledge of safety management systems and safety risk assessment
    • Proficient in the use of MS Office

    Competencies & Skills

    • Problem solving capacity (technical and costs evaluation of a solution)
    • Capacity of managing Technical risks
    • High Interpersonal
    • Communication and negotiation skills
    • Self-motivated
    • Attention to detail
    • Ability to work independently
    • Desire to learn
    • Effective, professional interpersonal skills
    • Strong team player
    • Dedicated and Hardworking

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    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Alstom on jobsearch.alstom.com to apply

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