Project Quality and Safety Manager

The Railway industry today is characterized by both a strong and sustained growth across the world. The trends that drive this are well known: With 6B€ of Sales and around 30,000 employees based in over 60 countries, Alstom  develop & market the most complete range of systems, equipment and services offered today in the railway sector. Today we offer our customers solutions that feature a seamless blend of diverse technologies, ensuring optimal interfaces, along with flexible implementation and real synergy in innovation.

For our Savigliano site in Italy we are currently looking for a motivated and enthusiastic

PrQSM (Project Quality and Safety Manager)

Purpose of the job

• Support the Project Team, to ensure the project Safety, Quality assurance by coordinating all quality and safety activities throughout the project and be the preferable interface in the Project Team for all the métiers Quality needed for the Project (Engineering Quality, Industrial Quality, Supplier Quality)
• Ensure that all the REX (Return Of Experience) of all the métiers have been considered in the Risks & Opportunities and closely monitor to prevent occurrence

Ensure and improve the tender quality during tender phase upon request

Customer Quality

• Be the interface with the Customer quality and safety teams

Project Quality

• Establish the Project Quality plan and ensure the proper application during contract execution in accordance to the contract requirements, and to the Alstom processes
• Support the project teams and Project Manager to prepare gate reviews & follow up related action plans

Project execution controls

• Support the project teams mainly the Project Manager to prepare gate reviews & follow up related action plans
• Report quality and safety alerts
• Ensure quality of the modifications made during the project
• Ensure that safety assessment is correctly implemented (i.e.: safety review) and prepare safety authorization.
• Control project deliverables compliance through inspection and audits - to authorize presentation / delivery to customer
• Ensure REX process within the projec

Measure and improve project quality performance

• Manage Non-conformities and Safety issues and facilitate problem solving during project execution phase to reduce the costs of non-quality (8D, REX and standards evolution)
• Improve the efficiency of quality teams to reduce the function costs
• Make sure that Engineering team is included in Customer issues solving process(if needed).

• Depending on local organization, PrQSM could also oversee Industrial quality, Quality Management System and Supplier Quality Assurance activities. In some sites/countries/regions, the PrWM position is merged with the PrQSM position.

  Performance measurements:

• “On Time” Gate Reviews and shared with PMO “DFQ Look Ahead”
• Number of remaining Safety or Customer Issues to fix after target time agreed
• Cost of Non-Quality and speed to solve non-conformities     

Educational Requirements  

• Master degree in Engineering with Management background depending on the size of the project
• Experience in managing Quality tools and problem-solving tools
• Knowledge of railway industry (norms, certifications…) would be an asset

Experience  

• Awareness on Processes and Products delivered in the project,
• Fluent in English
• Experience in Quality / audit are appreciated

Competencies & Skills - (Technical & Behavioral)

• Rigor, Communication, knowledge of Quality standard (ISO9001, IRIS, CMMI, ECM,.) and quality tools
• Experience in operational activities and in documentation management
• Collaboration and team working

At Alstom Transport, we offer you the opportunity to unleash your potential and reinvent yourself. As a future employee, you will have a unique opportunity to drive our organization forward, while continuing to build your career and contribute to the expanding growth of the global railway industry.  More information about Alstom can be found at: www.alstom.com