Site Engineering Director - Components

JOB TITLE & JOB CODE

Job Title (Job Code):        

EN-MG-01: Site Engineering Director/Manager (SED)

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• Manage and organise Engineering Team according to business and region needs in-line with central engineering guidelines
• Execute engineering RSC project, sustaining and R&D activities according QCD commitments
• Perform engineering RSC activities for tenders
• Manage workforce according workload (firm projects, forecast projects, tender, sustaining and R&D) and ensure BCC roadmap
• Drive co-engineering specially with process engineering and co-development with supplier via Procurement
• Push improvement programs based on central recommendations (methodologies/tools and APSYS engineering) and local initiatives
• Develop on-site engineering staff including succession plan and competency matrix deployment
• Apply common processes, methods and tools and capture RoE for continuous improvement
• Supervise products, key technical decisions and safety critical issues and capitalise RoE
• Monitor project to cost programs in engineering
• Manage cost center, budget preparation and monitoring SOH including recovery during the year
• Support and promote innovations

ORGANISATION

Organisation structure (job belongs to..)

RSC

Reports directly to:  Site MD

Other reporting to:

Direct reports:

Network & Links

Internal

• Site management committee and other department leaders
• Global engineering
• Regional Engineering Directors
• Region sales and platform teams

External

• Customer and local technical partners
• Homologation authorities
• Universities and local technical/engineering networks
• Subcontracting companies - local representatives

MAIN RESPONSABILITIES 

Performance Measurement/KPI’s

SED dashboard:  e. g. OTIF, DR on-time, workload, APSYS Eng ...

Accountable for:

• Engineering tender commitment and project/R&D engineering QCD
• Management of site engineering workload and workforce
• Ethics and Compliance
• EHS in engineering
• People and resource management 
• Respect of engineering processes, tools and methods
• KPI targets from SED dashboard
• Supervision of key technical decisions and safety critical issues
• Monitoring of engineering actions in project to cost programs
• Engineering cost centre
• Supporting and promoting innovations
• People management cycle management on-time and quality of data with associated Training and development plans to reach target competence level

Responsible for:

• Management and organization of engineering department
• Manage interfaces with other stakeholders on-site for co-engineering specially with process engineering and co-development with sourcing/supplier
• Contribute to site strategy
• Engineering improvement on projects including cooperation and change management
• Appoint Tender/Project Engineering teams
• Monitor site engineering activity and inform Site MD, RED and Global Engineering about major events
• Communication to engineering team

 MAIN REQUIRED COMPETENCES

Experience

Mandatory:

• Project management incl. work package, risk and opportunity management> 5 years experience
• Rolling Stock and components >10 years experience

Desirable:

Competencies & Skills

• Engineering processes, tools and methods
• Technical decision making incl. value analyses methodologies
• Engineering strategy and vision definition
• Engineering planning
• Presentation, communication
• Good financial understanding
• Strong Leadership and people management experience
• Cooperation and Change management
• English fluent