Jobs at Alstom

• The main purpose of this role is to manage all aspects of wayside equipment maintenance required to provide passengers with a safe, effective and efficient transportation service. The role also requires providing support to Infrastructure manager in managing a multi-disciplinary team
• This role will be based at the Gautrain Maintenance Depot in Midrand, Johannesburg. 

YOUR ROLE:

• Provide support and perform follow up with multi-disciplinary team in:
• Achievement of maintenance performance criteria
• Effective sub-contractor / vendor management
• Effective development and control of the budget
• Effective stakeholder relationship management
• Effective teamwork and self-management
• Perform follow up on Wayside non-conformances, open action requests, open audit findings and assist with any correspondence with external parties.
• Arrange & facilitate incident reviews and technical investigations
• Analyse and facilitate integration of data coming from Operations (Return on Experience).
• Review and Improve infrastructure processes and procedures.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree in  Electrical, Electronic or Civil Engineering.  Registerable with ECSA as Professional Engineer
• 5+ years experience within a railway maintenance function
• Good knowledge of  railway maintenance principles
• Exposure / knowledge of railway rules and regulations
• Multi-disciplinary exposure to various railway sub-systems (eg, tracks, signaling, electrical, etc)
• Coordination of planning between the various subsystems
• People management
• South African citizen

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PURPOSE AND MISSION OF THE JOB:

• Be in charge of all the Logistic teams: warehouse, logistic engineering and transport teams (Alstom employees or external - provider) for your site / country.
• Manage and optimize the logistic flows to always keep the physical and system flows aligned.

NETWORK & LINKS  

INTERNAL

• Material planning, Planning, Sourcing, Finance, Quality
• Industrialization, Environment Health Safety (EHS), Manufacturing

EXTERNAL

• Suppliers, Third Party Logistic (3PL) & Logistics partners, Subcontractors

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Ensure that employees operate in an environment that complies with company Health, Safety and Environmental policies:
• Know and follow all safety, environmental and emergency procedures
• Actively participate in all aspects of safety including reporting of near misses and meetings
• Ensure implementation of all standard processes & golden rules in compliance with Logistic Handbook
• Ensure optimization of warehousing, packaging, and physical flow according to Lean Manufacturing and QCDE (Quality Cost Delivery Environment Health & Safety) principles
• Ensure key users are in place to support critical processes and users (training, data corrections, system Key Performance Indicators (KPI))
• Ensure the ERP solution (Enterprise Resource Planning solution) is implemented, correctly used and guarantee the master data quality
• Monitor and report Key Performance Indicators (inventory accuracy, cycle counting performance)
• Ensure the inventory process is in compliance with Alstom standard rules (Delegation of Authority DOA, instruction)
• Ensure the deployment of APSYS (Alstom Transport Production System) roadmap by each Team

Management:

• Manage Jobs & Skills, Training & Qualification, Workforce, Staffing & organization, World Class Manufacturing network
• Monitor and report Key Performance Indicators and continuous improvement activity for logistics

Operational activities:

• Ensure that Environment Health & Safety (EHS) rules are respected and promote EHS culture
• Ensure alignment between physical and system flows: no physical movement without system update
• Warehousing & Logistics: implement and run Logistics standards for physical material flow (goods reception, warehousing, picking, line feeding, inventory, and shipping)
• Optimize warehouse layouts, its internal flows and storage policy
• Ensure optimization of transportation flow & cost
• Manage C-Class* activity according to Alstom standard rules (C-Class is the outsourcing of the small parts management)
• Promote recycling activities: bin management and returnable packaging
• *C Class is the outsourcing of the management of the small parts

Finance:

• Manage Budget for his department
• Respect the Delegation of Authority (DOA) rules regarding inventory reconciliations

case of 3PL (logistic activities totally or partially outsourced):

Main responsibilities (towards 3PL):

• Ensure that the 3PL and his employees operates in an environment that complies with Alstom’s Health, Safety and Environmental policies
• Ensure that the 3PL works according to the conditions and service levels agreed in the contract
• Be the contact person between the Management of the 3PL and all other Alstom Departments;
• Manage any complaints or issues concerning the 3PL and escalate if required
• If the 3PL works in Alstom’s ERP, ensure that is correctly implemented and used by the 3PL
• Participate in all monthly, weekly and daily meetings with the 3PL
• Control and validate the 3PL’s KPI’s and invoices

Management (towards 3PL):

• Manage the 3PL Supplier according to his Performance: cooperate, motivate, gratify, or intervene and escalate when required
• Manage 3PLs that are in charge of the external stock (KPIs review, steering committee, manage costs, budget, invoices, define targets, monitor activities…)

Operational activities (towards 3PL):

• Guarantee follow-up and performance of 3PL activities through KPIs
• Analyse the Root Causes of any logistic issues and agree with the internal stakeholders and the Management of the 3PL on corrective actions. Follow up on these actions and participate in their realization

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Graduated from Supply Chain / Engineering / Industrial
• English fluent mandatory

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE / EXPERIENCE

• Experience of mini 3-5 years in Logistics & Warehouse management
• Experience of mini 5 years in Team management
• Knowledgeable of SAP (WM and IM modules)

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

• Good communication, negotiation, leadership and initiative skills
• Strategic and methodical vision
• Good risk management and problem solving skills
• Agile, inclusive and responsible attitude
• Partnership attitude