Special Process Engineer

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:

• To coordinate the industrial control of the Special Processes (SP) during tender phase, product development, industrialization, manufacturing, warranty and maintenance
• To support technology and activity transfers

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

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 special processes
• Build the SP 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 for standard manufacturing process (e.g. electronics products)
• 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 SP. Contribute to development of suppliers
• Manage evolution of quality control process dedicated to SP
• 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 SP: documentation, process and means validation, training
• Complies with EHS Alstom and external standards

Transmission:

• Train the workers and EPU managers to execute SP
• Ensure continuous training and permanent qualification of the workers to SP
• Train support functions to business rules linked to SP (Engineering, PME, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Quality)
• Develop SP expert /specialist on new geographic area through Alstom SP qualification plan

Execution / Serial manufacturing:

• Guarantees internal control and good application of process rules in line with customers’ requirements
• Performs internal and external audits
• Ensure day to day monitoring of SP business rules and solve issues concerning SP.
• 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:

• Participate to meetings and working groups of the SP network
• Propose improvement ideas and evolution of the business rules of their domain

Key Job Authorities and Dimensions: 

• In case of major SP 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 SP standards rules
• Contribution to site industrial QCD targets
• 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”

Educational Requirements:  

• Bachelor's degree in engineering,process engineering, mechanical, electronics, electrical, or other related field.

Experience:  

• 2 to 5 years’ experience in manufacturing process engineering
• Practice the concerned special process (torquing tightening) from 2 to 5 years (execution, definition, qualification)

Competencies & Skills  

• Autonomous, rigorous, good communication
• Good teaching skills (able to provide training to a group of trainees)
• Innovative, participative in business workgroups
• Able to read, write and speak English

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.​