Various Openings at Alstom

Key Responsibilities

• Performing requirement development based on reference and applicable documents in close collaboration with relevant specialists, local and international Standards, Certification, Safety and Customer requirements.
• Defining system architecture, operational modes and functions based on external/internal requirements.
• Performing the specialist field (e.g. EMC, Acoustics, and Fire Protection) requirement allocation to the various subsystems in close collaboration with local and international experts.
• Performing train system FMECA in coordination with RAMS team.
• Ensuring consistency and compatibility between all the sub-systems specifications.
• Writing sub-system specification and architecture description in collaboration with the sub system engineers, other engineering sites and other engineering departments.
• Supporting the Train System Engineer to define applicable train configurations.
• Ensuring coordination between Sub Systems, various engineering sites and central engineering on interfaces, performances, technical issues resolution during detailed design phase.
• Participating in technical meetings with the customer.
• Working with the sourcing department to write technical product specifications for equipment to be procured, holding technical discussions with suppliers, participating in the supplier development and testing of their products.  To discuss with suppliers about non-performing/non-compliant topics in the warranty phase.
• Drives technical development of the product until GFV in close relationship with suppliers.
• Defining and performing Train verification strategy in close collaboration with all Engineering departments, Certification & Validation teams, Train Sub System Team and Participating Units.
• Writing the train level test specifications and sub system test specifications when needed.
• Performing integration and tuning on the train.
• Complete management of technical open issues from investigation to modification implementation and problem closure.
• Performing reporting at project level and métier level (via weekly reports).
• Supporting TSE for implementation and update of Engineering risks mitigation plan, change order process and QCD optimisation.
• Prepares DR with suppliers (sub-system/product level) or with TSE (train/product integration level).
• Manages the technical Sub-System ESLI/RAPR.
• Ensures that standard key design rules are applied with Platform and Sourcing colleagues.
• Ensures that the Métiers tools are well applied (connector, costing tool, DRCL ….).
• Execute activities given by the Train System Engineer (TSE).
• Update the Validation Plan.
• Write Train System test procedures.
• Ensure the timely issuing of the Validation proves (including proves of lower level systems and components) and consolidates Validation files.
•  Provide structured Return of experience (REX) to feed costing activities, to be implemented in Reference Solutions, and to enrich the CV metier technical repository.

Minimum Requirements

• BSc / B.Eng. in Mechanical/Electrical/Electronic/ Mechatronics/Electro-Mechanical Degree.
• Registered or Registerable as a Professional Engineer with ECSA.
• At least 3-5 years of experience in a similar role (preference will be given to candidates with experience in the railway industry).

Special Requirements

• General technical competencies in Engineering.
• Understanding of Pneumatic Diagrams and symbols .
• Written and Oral communication in English.
• Willing to live the Gibela Values (Trust and Respect, Teamwork and Partnership, Focus and Drive and Influence the future).

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Key Responsibilities

You will be required:

• Calculate the Work Package (department) costs since inception.
• Prepare and review Work Package Report: Actuals & cost at completion, ensure individual risks are properly assessed and mitigation plans in place.
• Forecast Work Package (Department) costs to complete.
• Prepare variance analysis of high quality.
• Ensure Reporting is accurate and on time.
• Support the Work Package Owner in the monthly and bi-annual Work Package Reviews with the project/Platform.
• Build Constructive relationship with Work Package owners (departmental heads).
• Review and analyse Work Package working capital (inventories in particular).
• Provide all Work Package finance reporting (Work Package Reporting in particular).
• Be the interface with the Project Controller for all Work Package financial issues.
• Respect GIBELA rules & processes.
• Ensure accuracy and quality of Costs data.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Finance or Accounting degree, or
• Project Control Certification, or
• CIMA (in progress or completed; advantageous).
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar industry (construction/project based).

Special Requirements

• Must be able to handle pressure and work effectively as part of a diverse team.
• Must be willing to challenge the status quo.
• Able to communicate effectively across all levels, both verbally and in writing.
• Good problem solving and people skills.
• Good analytical skills.

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THE MAIN RESPONSIBILITY OF THE INDUSTRIAL QUALITY INSPECTOR WILL BE:

• Ensures application of Contract, Claims and Insurance Management Manual (CCIM) and Alstom governance.
• Prepares Contract Summary and ensure it is widely communicated and regularly updated.
• Carefully analyzes the contract to build and drive implementation of Contract/Claim Management Strategy Plan.
• Ensures elaboration of the CDRL by the Project Team members is launched in time, is accurately communicated, and updated. 
• Monitors Works toward contract obligations, including monitoring of project schedule toward achieving contractual milestones.
• Ensures timely issuance of contractual notices to customers/partners.
• Establishes and implement project specific commercial procedures, particularly regarding correspondences, notifications, insurance, variation requests/orders and claims preparation files. 
• In collaboration with Documentation Controller and/or Contract Administrator, ensures a reliable filing and easy access of correspondence from and to customers/partners.
• Monitors/manages correspondence by analyzing (for and with Project Manager) incoming and outgoing correspondence to customers/partners.
• Develops and produces any project specific processes and ways of working for contract/claim management.
• Develops a pragmatic commercial approach based on contractual analysis of the project, to protect, on a daily basis, Alstom interests toward customers and partners.
• Carefully monitors, records, and notifies customer/partners regarding claims/counterclaims and prepares and manages all elements and supporting documentation for claims/counterclaims negotiations.
• Monitors customer/partner requests for variations / change orders / extensions of time.  Provides follow-up, as necessary, to drive to transactional closure, including updates to the VO/VR/Delay registers, preparation of commercial offer, and prepares associated contractual letters for CD/PM approval.
• Provides creative advice on specific issues, risks, and contractual/claims activities, taking into account the contract and business objectives.
• Routine report on contract management and claims activities to the project, and Legal, and Contract Management teams.
• Provides training on contract/claim management to key stakeholders, including project management, finance, engineering, and sourcing communities.
• Anticipates events and risks associated with the contract management activities; proposes various counter-strategies and commercial solutions to keep the situation under control.
• Works closely with the Project Directors, Project Managers, Project Controllers, Project Engineering Managers, Sourcing Contract Managers, and Project Planning Managers, to identify and mitigate risks; and to identify, maximize, and leverage claim opportunities.
• Provides at any time, on management demand, a reliable and understandable contractual and commercial analysis of the project.
• Drafting of all correspondences, variation orders and contractual claim particulars in accordance with the requirements of the contract and in collaboration with the project team, relying in their input.

The preferred candidate will meet the following requirements: 

• Minimum qualification of a BCom Law or LLB alternatively,
• A Degree in engineering, quantity surveying will be considered subject to the experience
• Minimum 8 years of working experience in Contracts Management
• Proven track record in contract management in a complex business environment, ideally in similar business environment railways, construction, manufacturing, oil & gas, energy)
• Railway knowledge advantageous
• Fluent in English – reading, writing, speaking (mandatory)
• Advance MS Office
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Contract Management systems; Project Management software (Primavera and MS Projects); Excel Spreadsheet software and Microsoft Office Word Processing software.
• Hands on experience in claims management, negotiations and contract law.
• Understanding of Project Management skills including process and procedures, customer interface, schedule management, scope management, commercial management, and personnel administration and negotiations.
• Risk and opportunity experience
• Experience in cost recovery management
• Knowledge of professional and statuary rules and regulations associated with supply management ,procurement and projects in general
• Have experience working in a multicultural matrix project environment.
• Working knowledge of transit customers, products, suppliers and services
• Ability to travel locally if required
• Occupationally fit to work on an engineering/manufacturing site
• Office based position

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Key Responsibilities

• Being a leadership resource to team members, providing knowledge, experience, motivation, support and advice.
• Monthly proposition of improvement ideas.
• Manage daily team activities and team briefings.
• Weekly review meetings with the customer to review all the faults that have been fixed and assign the responsibility of which is deemed not to be Gibela.
• Ensure that the team members are supplied with PPE, including safety glasses, gloves and protective outer clothing.

Minimum Requirements

• B Tech or Advanced Diploma in Electrical/Electronic Engineering.
• Industrial and technical background with a minimum of 2 to 5 years’ experience, troubleshooting preferably in a similar industry.
• Proven record managing a technical team.
• Must have experience or good understanding of any of the maintenance management information systems i.e. Maximo, SES, SAP, MES.

Special Requirements

• The job involves carrying out technical support and maintenance on 24/7 shift & on-call basis (night, day, weekend).

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Key Responsibilities

• Ensure all Work Instructions (WI), Maintenance Instructions, Maintenance and Safety Bulletins including all other associated Risk assessments necessary are produced to the relevant standard and presented for sign off in a timely manner.
• Produce clear and concise technical documentation in the form of specifications, test procedures, modification instructions, maintenance and safety instructions and technical reports.
• Lead optimisation of the maintenance schedule and casualty repair procedures in light of service experience and Operations feedback including (Justification of inspection periodicity, Specification of materials and tools).
• Carrying out product/process audits of depot maintenance and casualty repairs.
• Assist PRASA and GIBELA Front office as necessary to diagnose train defects where technicians require guidance.
• Escort the Customer during Routine Condition Audits and undertake product and process audits as required ensuring the integrity of the fleet and maintenance processes.
• Manage the production and maintenance of the Bill of Material (BoM), and WI.
• Manage the production of the preventive & corrective & overhaul Life Cycle Cost (LCC).
• Continually review all Maintenance, Reliability, Overhaul and associated documents to ensure all are up to date and correctly formatted.
• Assist in parts identification, creation of DTR numbers and obsolescence management.
• Produce, update training material, and perform training as trainer to PRASA & GIBELA team and any other GIBELA training needs.
• Act as a technical expert continuously develop expertise in selected field.
• Continuously improve Training material and sustain Trainer qualification to provide Training courses to PRASA at the expected service level.
• Obtain Training accreditation i.e. (SETA, TETA, etc)
• Support the Hotline / Help desk service to PRASA at the expected service level.

Minimum Requirements

• BSc or B.Eng. Degree (Electrical/Mechatronics Engineering).
• Knowledge of rail and subsystem engineering.
• Safety and Engineering standards knowledge, rail knowledge is advantageous. 
• Knowledge of Reliability, Accessibility and Maintainability Aspects 
• Life Cycle Cost/ Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS) experience.
• Working knowledge of safety management systems and safety risk assessments. 
• Proficient in the use of MS Office, SAP (System Analysis Program)/GSI (Global Simple Instance) 
• Problem Solving capacity (Technical and cost evaluation of a solution) 
• Capacity of managing Technical Risks 
• Solid decision making and critical thinking. 

Special Requirements

• Travel to suppliers including PUs, Depots countrywide, Alstom and Gibela sites as operationally required.

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PURPOSE OF THE JOB

Responsible to develop and maintain the project/program scheduling with documentation, using best practices such as but not limited to:

• Reflect the project execution strategy in the schedule, capture the entire scope of work, with activity durations, logically sequence, linkages, and constraints.
• Apply the time management standards, processes, and practices.
• Compile and evaluate time-related data from all available sources, effectively communicating the results in various formats – with primary focus on critical path, baseline progress monitoring, resource assignment and risk analysis.
• Manage efficiently planning deliverable issuance with facilitation, synchronization and communication of internal stakeholders.
• Report schedule progress and anticipated risks to various stakeholders (customer, core team, central)
• Generate effective scenarios to achieve On Time Delivery (OTD) targets and advise on time-related contractual disputes.
• Capture and lead adoption of return of experience (REX) from other projects, whilst promoting time management practices and governance.

IN TENDER PHASE:

• Analyse tender documentation to understand schedule management requirements, including schedule structure, reporting constraints, and contractual requirements.
• Set a timeline for tender preparation and ensure its adherence until the tender submission.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to integrate inputs and define project schedule interfaces.
• Contribute to formulating the project execution strategy.
• Develop the tender schedule based on contract requirements, sub commitments, gap analysis and the tender execution strategy.
• Identify the project schedule's critical path and risks, suggesting optimization and mitigation actions.
• Highlight differences between the initial assumptions and the final tender schedule.
• Draft the tender schedule narrative.
• Ensure on-time delivery of schedule-related deliverables.
• Present scheduling information during tender gate reviews.

IN CONTRACT OR PROGRAM EXECUTION:

• Develop quality schedules in accordance with the company's procedures, contractual requirements, and stakeholder inputs.
• Optimize schedules considering multiple criteria such as on-time delivery, cash generation, penalty avoidance, and efficient utilization of available resources.
• Validate the partner's input schedules and ensure external validation of the combined baseline schedule.
• Create a Project Time Management Plan and validate time-related documentation.
• Collaborate with the project team to identifying and mitigating risks and in seizing opportunities related to on-time delivery.
• Lead regular project schedule review sessions, challenging stakeholders' assumptions about time performance and seeking solutions.
• Prepare schedule and progress reports, illustrating physical progress with relevant time related KPIs, analyse gaps between actual progress & baseline, and the Earned Value Methodology with Finance controllers
• Align the commitments of internal and external stakeholders, manage schedule interfaces, identify trade-offs, and proactively influence stakeholders to adopt approaches beneficial for the overall project. proactively address inconsistencies.
• Ensure timely updates of both internal and external schedules while monitoring stakeholders' adherence to schedule quality standards.
• Identify critical paths and both actual and potential delays in complex, interconnected schedules.
• Support the Contract Manager in time-related disputes, perform delay analysis, and evaluate incoming delay-related claims.

PERFORMANCE AREAS IN TENDER, CONTRACT OR PROGRAM EXECUTION

• Management & monitoring of critical paths for gate reviews, milestones, planning risks and mitigation actions
• Timely updates of schedule that represents full project scope, change requests, progress reports and time related KPIs
• Timely development of schedule related documents with relevant breakdown structures and with defined progress monitoring methods
• Maintain the schedule in line with defined standards (DCMIA, Project schedule integrity, etc)

INTERFACES & NETWORK LINKS:

INTERNAL  

• Project & Contract management, Operations, Supply Chain,  PME/Industrial,
• Finance, Facilities and Quality

EXTERNAL:   

• Customer                                                                                               

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION:

• Recognised post graduate qualification in Business/ Project Management, Data science or Industrial Engineering.
• 5 to 7 years mid-Management experience as Planner or scheduler
• 5 years active proficiency of project scheduling software:  MS Projects, Primervera, ODY-C
• and manufacturing activities
• Advanced MS Office proficiency, particularly Excel
• Working knowledge of time-related contractual practices and delay analysis methods.

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Key Responsibilities

• Execute TSSSA Material planning and Inventory strategies in coordination with Industrialization and Operations.
• Define parts typology (based on ABC, variability, business type) for defining planning tactics and to support Line replenishment.
• Define and set-up MRP parameters to implement material planning strategies.
• Analyze Inventory content for correcting planning strategies.
• Support finance for inventory depreciation calculation.
• Implement and manage improvement plan in regard of Inventory reduction.
• Measure performance in material planning (material availability) and inventories.

Minimum Requirements

• B-Tech Degree in Supply Chain or Industrial Engineering.  
• Previous experience working in a maintenance environment.
• Working knowledge of Material requirement planning, warehouse management and inventory control system. 

Special Requirements

• The job involves some mobility to clients and several depots.

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Key Responsibilities

• Establish the priorities for Internal repairs and communicate them with the Repairs planners to the Workshop.
• Cover other Purchasing Functions (Supply Chain Coordinator, MRP Controller) when required.
• Expedite the delivery of repairs from external suppliers ensuring supplier and customer OTIF is achieved.
• Sharing information on customer needs and master production schedule with key stakeholders at site level (Procurement, Production, ...) in order to prevent, detect and manage potential maintenance issues or advance/delay in delivery.
• Defining and implementing improvement action plans for dysfunctions on components with reliability histories.

Minimum Requirements

• National Diploma in Engineering (Electrical or Mechanical).
• 3 to 5 years’ experience in the railway industry.  
• Good knowledge of SAP/GSI system and configuration management and Industrialization Engineering. 
• Knowledge of configuration management and Industrialization Engineering. 
• Good internal and external communication and capacity to coordinate complex configuration. 

Special Requirements

• The job involves frequent mobility to clients and several depots.