International Welding Engineer (IWE) / Welding expert & Trainer - Special process

JOB TITLE & PURPOSE OF THE JOB

Job Title: Welding Coordinator or Engineer with IWE certification and  Trainer

Purpose of the job:

• To coordinate the industrial control of the welding Process- during tender phase, product development, industrialization, manufacturing.
• To support technology and activity transfers

In this respect the person in charge complies with Ethics and Compliance policies

POSITION IN THE ORGANISATION

Organization structure:  

Industrial Operation /Rolling Stock

Reports directly to:

Site Special Process Manager or Regional Center Industrialization Manager

Other reporting to:   

PIM (Product Industrial Manager) or PrIDM (Project Industrial Manager)

Direct reports:

 Depends -direct reports

Network & Links   Position title of connected positions / functional report

Internal

• Tender: Bid Technical manager
• Engineering: Design Engineer
• Industrialization: Industrialization Engineer / Method engineer / PIM
• Quality: Industrial Quality / SPQD/ SQA
• Supply Chain: Logistics Engineer
• Sourcing: Buyer / Sub-contractors
• EHS team

Central (HQ):

• Welding Process experts network and Central Coordinator
• SQD: support under governance of central coordinator

External

• Local suppliers
• Standards committee (unless responsibility is exclusively devoted to the central coordinator)

ACCOUNTABILITIES & AUTHORITIES

Activities by step of the industrial process 

• Tender:
  • Contribute to tender phase, especially in product design and industrialization to take into account industrial constraints and requirements in order to optimize costs and minimize risks when needed
• Concurrent Engineering:
  • Contributes during specification and design phases to technical solution decisions associated to welding special process.
  • Build the Welding REX and interact with product engineering to redirect the design if necessary.
• Industrialization:
  • Manage industrial risk through Process FMEA and associated improvement action plan. Foster generic FMEA – Welding for standard manufacturing process.
  • Define requirements and rules (Design for Manufacturing) for associated tooling necessary to start production
  • Qualify the product/process pair as well as industrial means to be put in place in line with the design.
  • Support sourcing and SQD teams in the suppliers’ qualification and in quality follow up for suppliers concerned by welding process, Contribute to development of suppliers
  • Manage evolution of quality control process dedicated to Welding.
  • Ensure deployment and validation of new processes in line with product / project planning
  • Issue relevant documents in the Quality System
  • Manages technicians that are eventually under his / her responsibility
  • Support Transfer of Technology on welding Process: documentation, process and means validation, training
  • Complies with EHS Alstom and external standards
• Transmission:
  • Train the workers and EPU managers to execute & Understanding the process knowledge & acceptance criteria of Welding
  • Ensure continuous training and qualification of the workers to Welding.
  • Train support functions to business rules linked to Welding (Engineering, PME, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Quality)
  • Develop welding expert (IWT) /specialist (IWS/IWP) on new geographic area through welding Standards & qualification plan.

• Execution / Serial manufacturing:
  • Guarantees internal control and good application of process rules in line with customers’ requirements
  • Performs internal and external audits, workstation inspection, stage inspection, Internal & Customer Hold point inspection.
  • Ensure day to day monitoring of welding domain business rules and solve issues concerning Welding.
  • In case of non-conformity or incident, investigate root causes, finds and implement repair solutions.
  • Demonstrate QCD and EHS improvement linked to SP through efficient action plans. Measure performance linked with site industrial objectives and through APSYS audit for instance.
  • Support Sourcing and Supplier Quality teams during quality crisis
• Transverse:
  • Lead and ensure EN 15085-2 and ISO 3834-2 certification for the company.
  • Participate to meetings and working groups of the welding experts network
  • Propose improvement ideas and evolution of the business rules of their domain.

Key Job Authorities and Dimensions: (Expenditure/Hiring authorities, total budget resp., team size; etc.):

• In case of major welding quality crisis (major technical risk, safety or financial), the expert must provide to the project manager, factually, a clear problem analysis (root causes, associated risks) and the options to exit the crisis, to enable him taking serenely position
• He / She has the duty to control his / her external communication (written and oral) as it engages the responsibility of AT towards third parties

Performance measurements: (OTD, QCD, Sales, PMC, Orders, Gross margin, etc.)

• Manufacturing and Quality documents are available in due time and to the good quality level
• Qualification reports of operating modes are issued in line with the schedule
• Zero non-conformity during internal or external audits
• Level of deployment of welding process  standards rules
• Contribution to site industrial QCD targets.
• Contribution to quality improvement through DPU reduction
• Reactivity and consistency during expertise during defect or incident
• FAR/FAI/ FMR/SMR validated for all installations involving SP and flagged as “technical or industrial risk”
• Reduction in training hours.

EXPERIENCE PREREQUISITES & REQUIRED COMPETENCES

Educational Requirements:  Describe the minimum educational requirement/level

Mandatory:

• Engineering degree in mechanical or metallurgical engineering.
• Qualified “International Welding specialist & Practioner”  IWS/IWP  Preferable with knowledge of AWS (For RSW)

Desirable:

• Bachelor Or diploma – Mechnical / Welding Engineering”.
• With IWS/IWP certification.

Experience:  Describe the knowledge and experience required for this role

Mandatory:

• 10 to 15 years’ experience in Relevant industrial method on welding.(TIG, MAG, SPOT, STUD)
• Practice the concerned special process- welding – On job Operations  from 5 to 8 years (execution, definition, qualification)
• Has been trained to Alstom Special Process standard or relevant welding standards training.
• Is officially recognised as expert by the Special Process central coordinator or Certification with IWS/IWP with similar Rolling stock (or) Automobile Industries.
• Task & Responsibilities as per ISO 14731- Specific level (Welding Coordination)

Desirable:

Automation of welding processes.

Digital monitoring of welding parameters.

EN 15085-2, ISO 3834-2 certification/surveillance audits.

ISO 9712 or ASNT level 2 in NDT methods- VT, PT, UT

Competencies & Skills  

• Autonomous, rigorous, good communication. Leadership, Team management, Digital innovation & analytical tools.
• Agile, Inclusive, Responsible, Problem Solving Skills.
• Design & Lead Internal Training Sessions.
• Good teaching skills (able to provide training to a group of trainees)
• Innovative, participative in business workgroups
• Able to read, write and speak proficiency English , & other applicable local Languages.
• Experience of troubleshooting of welding related problems.
• Computer skills, MS Ofiice- Word, Excel, PowerPoint.