Fresh Roles at Alstom

Your future role

• Take on a new challenge and apply your procurement and supplier management expertise in a cutting-edge field. You’ll work alongside collaborative, innovative, and results-driven teammates.
• You'll play a critical role in ensuring the successful procurement and supplier management for our projects. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (Global Procurement, Engineering, Supply Chain, Legal, Finance, and more), lead supplier negotiations, ensure on-time delivery and quality, and manage contract execution.
• You’ll specifically take care of setting up and managing the full supplier selection process, but also developing strong supplier relationships and contributing to strategic commodity initiatives.

We’ll look to you for:

• Preparing and launching Requests for Quotation with suppliers
• Leading project negotiations and preparing Business Awards
• Monitoring procurement project Quality, Cost, Delivery, Time (QCDT) and legal project evolution
• Managing supplier contract execution and coordinating cross-functional project teams
• Ensuring on-time delivery and quality, particularly during ramp-up phases
• Building and maintaining effective supplier relationships through proactive engagement and regular site visits
• Supporting commodity strategy development and aligning with global supplier panels
• Promoting Alstom’s Code of Ethics and adhering to the highest standards of ethical conduct

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:

• Diploma or degree in Supply Chain, Procurement, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in sourcing and/or buying roles
• Experience in contract management and legal awareness
• Proficiency in advanced MS Office tools and ERP systems
• Strong supplier engagement, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work autonomously in a matrix and project-driven environment
• Willingness and ability to travel to supplier sites as required
• Fluency in English; an international mindset is a plus
• Experience in supplier site visits, supplier development, or project procurement follow-up is desirable

Things you’ll enjoy 

• Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career.

You’ll also:

• Enjoy stability, challenges, and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
• Work with new security standards for rail signalling
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
• Contribute to innovative projects
• Utilise our flexible and inclusive working environment
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning
• Progress towards roles such as Commodity Manager or Procurement Lead
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension)

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Job Purpose

• To ensure that maintenance activities scheduled for completion are safely executed in a timely manner and adhere to work instructions, standards and quality parameters.
• Offer technical support and guidance to Technicians and to train the customer on corrective maintenance processes and procedures. Perform train preparations and corrective maintenance on customer trains upon receiving the formal request from the customer.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Support

• Assist Central Engineering with  field investigations and perform root cause analyses of complex failures.
• Validate the quality of the corrective maintenance interventions or fault resolutions.
• Ensure the SES/GSI or SAP system is updated to enable the Depot Engineer to:
• Provide updated progress on fault finding processes and corrective maintenance during weekly review meetings with the customer
• Review delays with the customer to confirm alignment with the fault and caused by other events
• Support the customer’s corrective maintenance team in diagnosing unusual or challenging faults for trains that are out of warranty.
• Verify that the failure details and corresponding maintenance interventions are accurately documented before validating service orders.
• Oversee corrective maintenance and vandalism related repair activities upon request from the customer.
• Support and coach customer’s staff in performing preventive maintenance tasks.
• Liaise with TSSSA engineering to clarify and improve the work instructions, troubleshooting guides and other relevant documentation to enhance maintenance quality and train performance.
• Guide and coach Technicians and assist with complex fault finding and replacement of appropriate modules or equipment.
• Identify and propose improvements in Quality, Cost and Delivery (QCD) performance.
• Offer help desk technical support to the customer on trains that are in service (24/7 helpdesk support.

Health and Safety

• Comply with all relevant policies and procedures, ensuring adherence to Quality, Health, and Safety standards as well as legislative requirements.
• Guide and coach the team on the correct use of safety equipment and emergency procedures in the event of an incident.
• Ensure team members are equipped with appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), including safety glasses, gloves and protective outerwear.
• Conduct safety checks on all equipment used during the maintenance process to ensure operational safety and compliance.

Team Selection, Hours Management, Performance and Development

• Guide, coach, motivate and support team members.
• Approve time sheets and where applicable approve overtime.
• Check that team hours are correctly reflected on SAP and SES.
• Plan for mandatory and other training that will enhance personal growth.
• Monitor the performance of team members and provide input into development plans.
• Facilitate the on-the-job training of new team members.
• Participate in the selection of direct reports.

Minimum Requirements

• B Tech/Advanced Diploma in Electrical or Electronic Engineering (NQF Level 7)
• 3 - 5 Years experience in preventative and corrective maintenance experience within a services or operations department.
• 2 Years Team Leader experience .

Special Requirements

• Incumbent will be required to manage Warehouse staff when performing night shift and be on call stand by duty to support helpdesk scope.

Closing Date

• 31 August 2026