ISR Bid Engineer

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Date: 22 Apr 2025

Location: Saint-Ouen, FR

Company: Alstom

Req ID:483785 

 

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.

 

 

Purpose of the Job
 

The ISR (Integrated Service Readiness) have mission to design and deliver a set of technics and methods that will ensure a maximum availability of the railway asset (Rolling Stock & infrastructure) with a minimum maintenance cost.

 

As an ISR Bid manager, you will :

  • Manage bids by integrating and quoting activities on system & Infra or Rolling stock
  • Supporting other Alstom entities (Rolling stock, Sig & Comm ..) in order to obtain a consistent ISR quotation
  • Be the ISR interface with customers (internal and external), suppliers and tendering team (turkey, RS)
  • Build and deliver robust tenders based on reference libraries.
  • Develop and improve ISR reference libraries with REX from both tenders & projects for scope and cost optimization

 

Main Missions & objectives :

The position holder will be accountable of:

  • Applying the tender process (launch meeting, QCD review, financial validation, tender gate reviews)
  • The preparation of competitive ISR WP offers by gap costing from Reference Library
  • Provide the Tender team with the ISR proposal tailored according to Customer requirements
  • The analysis of ISR requirements in tenders
  • The identification of the ISR response to be elaborated as a result of this analysis (strategy as PIO, share of work ..)
  • The obtaining of required budgets for ISR tender preparation
  • The production of the ISR Elements and supporting documentation needed during Tenders and more particularly :
  • Costing and QCD commitments
  • Technical descriptive memos
  • Clause by Clause
  • The coordination of maintenance experts contributing to the preparation of specific tender deliverables
  • LCC (Life Cycle Cost) models
  • Preliminary Maintenance Plans
  • Preliminary Training Plans
  • Manage coordination with other Métier or Function (Train Design/Engineering, RAMS) for the design of the ISR elements during tenders
  • Manage interfaces with the tender team during the whole tender process : BTM (Bid Technical Manager), BM (Bid Manager) and TSM (Tender Sourcing Manager)
  • Produce ISR IFQs (Instruction for Quotations)
  • Manage coordination of internal stake holders (Participating Units) contributing to the Tender
  • Manage the interface with Sourcing in order to retrieved ISR quotations from external suppliers
  • Support Rolling teams on ISR discussions during offer negotiation with Customer
  • Drive the tender process for the ISR part up to the Tender Transfer Meeting (TTM) with a focus on tender validation process on QCD scope
  • Implement and ensure an efficient process and references to prepare ISR offers in a secure, fast and cost effective manner
  • Capitalize data to improve QCD on future tenders & contribute to the REX process with tender and project teams for ISR  Reference Library update
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  • Educational requirements
  • Mandatory : “French baccalauréat +5 years” (or equivalent) or Bachelor’s degree from an engineering institute or university with technical dominant
  • Desirable : Master in Logistics Support specialization
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    Technical Knowledge / Experience

  • Work Package Management
  • Rolling Stock, System & Infra Tender & Projects
  • Mandatory : First experience in ISR in the Railway business with railroad technical knowledge on the reliability and maintainability aspects
  • First experience, or academical knowledge, in the fields of Railway maintenance or Logistics Support in an industrial domain
  • Desirable :  Experience in Railway maintenance execution would be a plus
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    Behavioural and Technical Skills / Competencies / Languages

  • English Fluent – Mandatory (second foreign language would be a plus)
  • Capability to run technical meetings in English
  • Strong team player
  • Leadership, solid decision making and critical thinking
  • Good communication and writing skills
  • Self-motivated
  • Resilience and assertiveness
  • Synthesis and reporting skills
  • Attention to detail
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    Location :

    Saint-Ouen (France)

 

 

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​

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