REM - System Maintenance Engineer

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The REM project is located in Montreal, Canada and its operation and maintenance activities are spread across a 67km network with its maintenance facilities in Brossard and Saint-Eustache. Alstom’s scope for the project is to support the operator and maintainer by providing technical support and spare parts for the rolling stock and signaling activities focusing mainly on level 4 maintenance activities.

As a maintenance system engineer on the REM project your main activities would be :  

Safety Management:

• Execute safety risk analysis for concession management
• Contribute to maintaining the highest standards in railway and employee safety through maintenance operations.
• Supports the Product Safety management system ensuring safety risks are mitigated in a timely manner.
• Captures and ensures ownership of regulations and standards to be applied.

Technical Data Management

• Manages and updates the technical documentation within the system and any required interface with the MMIS (Updating of drawings, documentation, Technical Library)
• Define technical requirements in order to develop the work instructions and processes from the maintenance plan and maintenance manuals.

Maintenance Support Activities

• Analyses failure criticality studies and uses RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) and other available methodologies to define and optimize the maintenance requirements, tasks and intervals.
• Maintain and update the LCC model by sub-system and identify risks and opportunities related to the LCC
• Supports cost reduction actions, with sourcing and industrial teams.
• Monitor material and spare parts consumption to ensure parts availability for maintenance operations
• Prepare make or buy analysis for overhaul activities

Parts configuration and obsolescence management:

• Actively contributes to the Configuration and Design Change Management of the Project
• Maintains the applicable configuration for hardware and software.
• Ensures efficient parts codification in line with Platform rules: materials identification, codification process, interfaces with Alstom systems, quality and normative requirements.
• Manage the obsolescence management plan, ensure obsolescence monitoring and evaluate technical or logistical proposal to ensure availability of parts.

Technical Support:

• Provide technical support for troubleshooting, incidents investigations and recovery using Alstom standard processes such as 8D methodology.
• Capable of providing training to customer and maintenance operation staff when required
• Detects, defines and implements the modifications of the maintained products to improve its reliability and serviceability, in order to reduce project costs and improve the performance of the systems.
• Use available resources such as HealthHub to detect failure trends and identify necessary remedial actions.

Qualifications Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience in Railways system/Application engineering
• Knowledge of rolling stock equipment, mainly Bogie, TCMS, Traction, Air&Brakes
• Available 8hours/day and 5 days/week in one MSF and remain available on call (outside the 8/5 hours) and able to be in the MSF within 1 hour when on call
• 1-3 years of experience in Railways system/Application engineering
• Member of the Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec
• Knowledge of rolling stock equipment & Maintenance
• Working knowledge of safety management systems and safety risk assessment
• Proficient in the use of MS Office, SAP, Maximo

Competencies & Skills

• Problem solving capacity (technical and costs evaluation of a solution)
• Capacity of managing Technical risks
• Self-motivated
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work independently
• Desire to learn
• Effective, professional interpersonal skills
• Strong team player

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

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