ESS Process Engineer

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, more than 80 000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Job Title: ESS Process Engineer (Adv Indus)

Alstom India - Engineering – Bangalore

The Company

At the helm of companies committed to a greener future, Alstom creates smart innovations to develop mobility solutions that provide the sustainable foundations for the future of transport. We design and manufacture a complete range of transportation systems, from high-speed trains, metros, monorails to driverless trains, as well as infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility solutions.

Joining us means joining a caring, responsible and innovative company with global community of more than 75000 people solving real-world mobility challenges and paving the way for greener and smarter mobility with sustainable local impact.

Context

As part of the development of innovative traction systems using energy storage systems, the Alstom Bangalore site is strengthening its ESS department. We work across disciplines to transform improved hardware and software elements into a single, integrated design.

Join us, and you will help us innovate new battery technologies that continually outperform the previous iterations.

By collaborating with other product development groups across Alstom, you will craft creative energy storage solutions that deliver more energy in smaller spaces than ever before.

As a team, you will push the industry boundaries of what ESS can do and improve the product experience for our customers across the world!

In this role, you will be designing world-class green energy storage solutions that lead the industry in quality and performance, drive customer results, and make a difference in people's lives. Do you have a passion for invention and self-challenge ?

The Role

As part of our ESS Engineering group, his/her mission is to assure the introduction of new technology for development of green energy storage systems for railway traction and auxiliary applications. The ESS Process Engineer is responsible to define manufacturing process and associated equipment (Tools, Jigs & Fixtures) for a new product, taking into account the industrial policy, existing standards and constraints of the project. As such, he/she will be ensuring QCD (Quality, Cost, Delivery) management on manufacturing activities and contribute continous improvement of methods and tools related to mechanical development.

He/She is responsible for the documentation of solutions, the follow-up of their application in the project and the growth of reliability.

Main Responsibilities

On this position you will be working as a Process & Manufacturing Engineering team member being responsible for:

• Gather industrial requirements that Engineering has to comply with, during product specification and design.
• Bring his expertise to the industrial Costing Manager during tender phase.
• Participate in product design in co-engineering mode, using appropriate methodologies.
• Define manufacturing process and associated equipment for a new product, taking into account the industrial policy, existing standards and constraints of the project.
• Develop and deploy processes, tools & quality standards with industrial teams.
• Train the Manufacturing Engineers on the applicable Standards and Rule for PME.
• Deliver training for Quality teams to Industrial Quality Standards. Manage the quality methods team if relevant.
• Design the macro-process, based on standard SMP. Manage Quality activities related to digital tools: GSI, QES & AOS.
• Manage APSYS improvement plan for Industrial Quality scope.
• Prepare introduction of new technologies, if need be, with associated process validation plan.
• Identify needs of specific manufacturing equipment.
• Estimate Method Time and perform a preliminary line balancing.
• Manage when needed the metrology activity and monitor external provider of calibration.
• Identify critical process steps where to perform detailed Process FMEA and full FAR / FAI.
• Perform Workstation audits planning, ensure follow-up & management of relevant action plans.
• Perform industrial documentation (list of material, work instructions, task sequence, …) for the project.
• Estimate the manufacturing workload for the parts corresponding to his domain.
• Industrialize retrofit after engineering changes : documentation, workstation definition / update.
• Support Production to achieve manufacturing QCD targets.
• Participate to continuous improvement workshops. Participates to R&D programs as industrial representative.
• Manage activity related to car history book (Traceability, configuration, …).
• Perform industrial REX on manufacturing processes and contribute to continous improvement.
• Ensure the capitalization of feedback on reference solutions or document repositories of the business.

Qualification, Knowledge & Experience

• BTech/ MTech degree in Electrical Engineering, Quality or similar.
• 5 years’ experience in industrial project management, data analytics, savvy with ERP & data visualization.
• Processes knowledge on Quality audit at industrial level. Continuous Improvement / Six Sigma background preferred.
• Technical mastering of railways products or industry with similar requirements of robustness, functional safety, long term support (aerospace, automotive, military).
• Ability to work in a matrix organization.
• Fluency in English (spoken and written) required for internal and external communications.

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

Important to note

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63  countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.

Job Type:​Experienced​