New Openings at Alstom

Minimum Requirements

• B SC or B Eng. Degree (in Mechanical or Electronics or Mechatronics or Electrical Engineering) with 3 years working experience in the rail industry OR    B Tech (in Mechanical or Electronics or Mechatronics or Electrical Engineering) with 5 working experiences in the rail industry.
• Registered or Registerable as a Professional Engineer or Technologist with ECSA.
• Life Cycle Cost/RAMS experience.
• Prognostic Tools (Centralised Fleet Maintenance (CFM), Health Hub (HH) or equivalent tools for remote fleet monitoring program), System Application and Products (SAP).
• Knowledge of problem-solving techniques (8D, Ishikawa, 5 whys, QRQC).
• Abstract knowledge of engineering design processes, engineering drawings and interpretation software documentations.
• Ability to demonstrate technical curiosity and able to discuss with the project team.
• Trouble-shooting experience on technical issues.

Main Responsibilities

• Assuring the technical support to the projects.
• Resolving technical problems by identifying root causes and develop robust solutions that are right first time.
• Feeding the Central Engineering with pre-processed data for improvement of the train reliability and maintenance plan.
• Escalating repetitive failures to central Engineering.
• Managing the central continuous improvement flow of issues raised at the depots and liaise with the Central Engineering team for solutions.
• Proposing innovative solutions and implements solutions in the projects.
• Managing technical points raised by Customer and Gibela team in Web-Portal tool.
• Allocating and reviewing weekly faults with the customer.
• Flagging Potential Service Affecting Failures (SAF) to the business.
• Updating SAP with all confirmed and agreed failure notifications.
• Leading contractual technical investigations and recoveries for major EMD (Excluded Matter Damage).
• Tracking all measurements analysis KPI’s in depot relating to Central Engineering.
• Supporting field modifications for complex solutions.
• Supporting Supplier Quality at the depot for complex investigations and non-conformance (NCR) claims.
• Providing Technical support to  Reliability Growth through investigations and data analysis.
• Providing Technical support to Warranty Field Engineer in order to ensure maximum train availability.

Measurements (Key Performance Indicators)

• Quality Cost Delivery (QCD) targets according to Project.
• On-Time in Full (OTIF) targets.
• Project reliability / availability / cost targets.
• Maintenance plan and design improvement.
• Feedback from internal and external stakeholders.

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Minimum Requirements

• Degree in the Industrial Engineering, Information Systems or similar.
• 5 years’ experience in either of these areas – Sourcing & Supply Chain
• ERP: SAP (MM, PM) experience – desired.
• Good knowledge of Repair Operations environment processes
• Good knowledge of Material Master Data and Processes
• Excellent communication skills.
• Active team player, deadline driven, process driven.

Main Responsibilities 

• Ensuring the creation and maintenance of Material Master Data for the Service and validate data in alignment with Supply chain flows.
• Analysing all ERP data inconsistency messages coming from Services various departments.
• Analysing ERP error messages specific to master and transactional data quality and implement corrective actions.
• Being the local referent for any support need related to ERP specific usage.
• Creating training documentation for local use.
• Coordinating and preparing training material.
• Training new entrants & users on their specific area of competence.
• Managing Material Valuation Types according to business needs.
• Managing generation of business reports on demand (from SAP database).
• Implement visual dashboard to report business performance.
• Manage deployment of new solutions.
• Identifying and mobilizing users and expert required to execute project activities.
• Understanding the process of the core solution.
• Contributing to the various solution specifications.
• Defining cleansing rules and preparing data migration and set-up.
• Coordinating and preparing training material.
• Ensuring that operational procedure are up-dated according to the new process implementation.
• Requesting ERP Access and Authorizations for End-Users
• Ensuring support level one after GO-Live.

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Minimum Requirements:

• Degree in the Industrial Engineering or Information Systems.
• 5 years’ experience in either of these areas – Sourcing & Supply Chain, Operations,SES and/or Quality position Operations, SES or in Quality.
• ERP: SAP (MM, PM, QM) experience (desired).
• Good knowledge of Quality and Operations environment processes
• Excellent communication skills.
• Active team player, deadline driven, process driven.

Main Responsibilities

• Ensuring the creation and maintenance of Material Master Data for the Service and validate data in alignment with Supply chain flows.
• Analyzing all ERP data inconsistency messages coming from Services various departments.
• Analyzing ERP error messages specific to master and transactional data quality and implement corrective actions.
• Being the local referent for any support need related to ERP specific usage.
• Creating training documentation for local use.
• Training new entrants & users on their specific area of competence.
• Managing generation of business reports on demand (from SAP database).
• Implementing visual dashboard to report business performance.
• Managing deployment of new solutions. 
• Identifying and mobilizing users and expert required to execute project activities.
• Understanding the process of the core solution.
• Contributing to the various solution specifications.
• Defining cleansing rules and preparing data migration and set-up.
• Coordinating and preparing training material.
• Ensuring that operational procedure are up-dated according to the new process implementation.
• Ensuring support level one after GO-Live.

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Key responsibilities include the following:

• Communicate daily with suppliers sharing procurement plan & challenging suppliers’ stock items Implement, manage standard packaging solutions (purchase, design, prototype, validation) and monitor the budget follow-up.
• Apply solutions to protect parts during all logistic operations (transport, unloading, storage, line feeding.
• Save money & cash (calculate ROI Return On Investment, design standard packaging, reduce transport costs,and make business case to justify any investment (returnable packaging).
• Contribute with Regional Logistic Engineering to identify potential improvements in the whole value chain and capture the added value.
• Reduce work labor time in the warehouse (picking, kitting hours) & in production.
• Improve ergonomics at workstation (internal kitting trolley) and reduce waste packaging (zero unpacking).
• Manage the Project Supply Chain specifications and negotiate with the suppliers at site and project level.
• Design internal logistic processes and ensure that the parameters in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) are correct (stock strategy, Activity Based Costing ABC classification).
• Put in place actions to align physical flow and system flow and to improve the stock accuracy in compliance with the standard process.

Operational activities:

• Design packaging solutions (define flow, calculate batch size, optimize packaging costs, calculate ROI and logistic loop, realize business case returnable vs lost packaging).
• Manage packaging at all levels from business award to maintenance including purchase order and budget monitoring.
• Define warehouse layouts, its internal/external flows and storage policy (define C-class storage management, create & implement mirror area, put in place visual management, Kanban flow, First In First Out, First Expired First Out, lean management).
• Participate to ABC classification and contribute to C-Class* activity according to the standard rules in place.
• Participate with Project Supply Chain Leader (PrSCL) to the different Procurement Gates Review by negotiating terms of Project Supply Chain Specification
• Reduce logistic costs and make business case (optimize packaging & transport costs, analyze milk-run, calculate ROI realize business case returnable vs lost packaging).
• Optimize the line feeding (design standard kitting trolley, warehouse & production line footprint and sequencing).
• Work closely with industrialization or Process & Manufacturing Engineering (PME), material planning, warehouse, sourcing, manufacturing teams.
• Apply Environment Health & Safety requirements for logistic: packaging solutions / warehouse process optimization / waste reduction & management.

Management:

• Manage logistics engineers and technicians: provide a long-term vision to the team, set yearly objectives and targets, support and coach in achieving these targets and objectives, perform performance appraisals, reward and recognize merits, set and follow up team members development plans and induction program for newcomers.
• Manage logistics engineers & aligned team members activities to the workload. To warn the Regional Logistics Engineering if the workload is temporary too high.
• Ensure site logistics engineers and technicians follow Logistic processes.

Main Competence Area:

• Physical flows (warehouse management and line feeding flows)
• Production order flows and stock consumption
• Optimal use and deployment of resources
• Industrial relations
• Warehouse & Inventory Management Systems & implementation
• Packging Design and Optimization
• Warehouse Design
• ERP Knowledge

Requirements:

• National Diploma in Industrial Engineering or equivalent
• Similar experience of 5-8 years in an industrial/manufacturing environment
• Experience of min 5 years in Team management 
• Advanced knowledge of SAP
• Proven project management experience
• Analytical
• Sound knowledge of Industrial and Supply chain processes
• Proven industrial (labour) relations experience
• Excellent and concise communication and leadership skills
• Active team player, deadline driven, process driven
• Customer centricity
• Strategic and methodical vision
• Good communication, negotiation, leadership, and initiative skills
• Strategic and methodical vision
• Problem solving skills
• An agile, inclusive, and responsible attitude
• Priority & risk management

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Key responsibilities of this role will include but not limited to:

Manage Subsystem Team.

• Formulate and/or implement subsystem sourcing strategy.
• Manage supplier QCDED performance with interface with quality, supply chain and economic development.
• Support Procurement Specialist when facing commercial and contractual negotiations in the project execution. 

 Responsibilities:

• Support execution of the sourcing strategy for metallic and c-class commodities.
• Domain financial performance (cost control, product continuous improvement focus).
• Ensure compliance to processes, and application of tools for team.
• Supplier performance management for overall project activities.
• Contribute to commodity risk management and sets appropriate mitigation plan within domain.
• Facilitate resolution of major issues through escalation processes.
• Secure supplier selection and purchase order placement on time within domain.
• Challenge internal stakeholders (engineering, supply chain, quality, etc.) to secure project execution and profitability.
• Track sourcing performance in project and issue action plan in case of deviation.

 Know How:

• Managing and maintaining contracts with local and international suppliers.
• Negotiating prices, price escalations as well as terms and conditions.
• Analyzing and evaluating supplier performance.
• Managing daily, monthly and quarterly reports.
• Developing and maintaining supplier relationships.

Educational requirements:

• Industrial/ Mechanical/ Electrical Engineer or other Engineering disciplines.
• MBA Desirable.

Technical Knowledge / Experience:

• Strong understanding of business processes, Procurement processes and procedures.
• Working with global and regional commodity teams, as well as suppliers to address and resolve issues based on defined KPI’s.
• Execution of the commodity or sub-commodity strategic sourcing activities, identification of potential risks, issues and opportunities.