Turnkey Project Engineering Manager

Req ID:469571 

Leading societies to a low carbon future, Alstom develops and markets mobility solutions that provide the sustainable foundations for the future of transportation. Our product portfolio ranges from high-speed trains, metros, automated people movers, monorail, and trams to integrated systems, customised services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility solutions. Joining us means joining a caring, responsible, and innovative company where more than 70,000 people lead the way to greener and smarter mobility, worldwide 

Join us as Turnkey Project Engineering Manager (PrEM), and you’ll be looking at a career-defining role based in Pittsburgh (PA), US.

Manage and accept the responsibility to deliver the technical scope on one of our complex and exciting Turnkey APM projects. As the PrEM, you will be responsible for managing the design and configuration of our Turnkey systems, ensure that quality, cost, and delivery are maintained within project commitments.

Your responsibilities will include:

Manage the technical contractual scope of the project:

• Be accountable for the customer acceptance of the project solution
• Manage the project technical risks and the corresponding mitigation plan
• Manage change within the project, raising variation orders if required in conjunction with the Project Manager
• Validate the technical design choices with the peers and Solution Director
• Identify the applicable regulations in the customer country/city and ensure they are taken into account in project solution design

Manage the project technical solution, including the customization and specific configuration of the generic solution to meet Quality, Cost, Delivery and Performance (QCDP) commitments:

• Ensure that all the technical requirements of the contract are fully addressed throughout the project lifecycle, from cradle to grave
• Act as a chairman of Project Change Control Board (CCB)
• Be responsible of the project design and application engineering activities
• Supervise Verification & Validation activities
• Be accountable for Engineering Work Package QCDP
• Manage the project BOM
• Verify Project Safety Case (scope, strategy and exported constraints)

Functionally lead the project engineering team:

• Allocate task(s) across Project Engineering team and ensure engineering activities follow-up
• Together with Domain / Metier Leaders and RSC Project Engineering Metier / Domain Department Heads, define the project engineering team organization according to the project phase (and as defined in the Engineering Management Plan)
• Deploy the applicable engineering process, methods & tools on the project
• Manage and participate in the evaluation of the project engineering team
• Share Environment, Health and Security (EHS) rules with project engineering team (receiving inputs from PM/Project EHS Manager/Coordinator or RSC EHS Manager)
• Support assessment of the teams involved in project engineering activities, including the ones belonging to a different regional centers.

Manage the interface with the project core team:

• Provide all technical documents to the project core team members for the industrialization, sourcing, installation, test and commissioning (product List of Material, architecture schematics, ...)
• Provide support to the Project Manager on execution of technical activities on-shore (delegation of responsibility could be defined and formalized in the Engineering Management Plan of the Project)
• Support the Design for Quality (DFQ) process
• Solve technical issues detected by different core team members
• During project warranty, coordinate actions to support resolution of pending technical issues following Project Warranty Manager (PrWM) requirements
• Support Project Quality and Safety Manager, PrQSM, to consolidate Return on Experiance for the project
• Support RSC Project Engineering Domain/Metiers Department Head to define/perform knowledge capitalization

As our ideal candidate you should have:

• Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Engineering, Computer Science or related field.  MS in similar fields is preferred.
• Five years engineering background including project deployment with full lifecycle view.
• Prior engineering leadership experience is preferred.
• Professional engineering license is preferred.
• Hands-on experience on technical or hierarchical team management is preferred.
• Cost and planning control experience in engineering scope, budget background is preferred.
• Customer relationship/interfacing skills.
• Product safety awareness is preferred.
• Demonstrated teamwork and leadership skills.

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