Alstom Engineering / Technical Jobs in Pretoria
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Purpose of the role:
- Provide Technical and Engineering support to the Depot
- Manage and be a be part of Engineering, looking for the improvement of the reliability and availability of the fleet
- Through technical data analysis from commercial service (during the warranty and out of warranty), propose ideas for Life Cycle Cost (LCC) improvements either on product design, process and tools
- Be a technical referent to resolve technical issues at the Depot level, ensuring Quality, Cost and Delivery (QCD) requirements are met and be the link between Depot and Gibela Central Engineering to escalate issues that need Gibela Central Engineering support
- Execute Engineering activities in the project at the depot Level
- Coordinate with Central Engineering functional tests, and train validation as per all test or validation requests
Mobility: The job requires some mobility to client depots, suppliers and the customer
Measurement (Key Performance Indicators)
- QCD targets according to Project
- On-Time in Full (OTIF) targets
- Project reliability/availability/cost targets
- Maintenance plan and design improvement
- Feedback from stakeholders
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Requirements:
- BSc/B.Eng. Degree (in Mechanical or Electronics or Mechatronics or Electrical Engineering) with 3 years working experience in the rail industry
- Equivalent: BTech (in Mechanical or Electronics or Mechatronics or Electrical Engineering) with 5 working experiences in the rail industry
- Registered or Registerable as a Professional Engineer/Technologist with ECSA
- Life Cycle Cost/RAMS experience
- Prognostic Tools (Centralised Fleet Maintenance (CFM), Health Hub (HH) or equivalent tools for remote fleet monitoring program)
- System Application and Products (SAP)
- Abstract knowledge of engineering design processes, engineering drawings and interpretation software documentations
- Able to have a technical curiosity and able to discuss with the project team
- Knowledge of problem-solving techniques (8D, Ishikawa, 5 whys, QRQC …)
- Trouble-shooting experience on technical issues
Responsibilities and objectives:
Technical Support Function
- Assure the technical support to the projects
- Resolve technical problems by identifying root causes and develop robust solutions that are right first time
- Feed the Central Engineering with pre-processed data for improvement of the train reliability and maintenance plan
- Escalate repetitive failures to central Engineering
- Manage the central continuous improvement flow of issues raised at the depots and liaise with the Central Engineering team for solutions
- Propose innovative solutions and implement solutions in the projects
- Manage technical points raised by the Customer and Gibela team in the Web-Portal tool
Operations Functions
- Allocate and review weekly faults with the customer
- Flag Potential Service Affecting Failures (SAF) to the business
- Update SAP with all confirmed and agreed failure notifications
- Lead contractual technical investigations and recoveries for Major EMD
- Track all measurements analysis KPIs in depot relating to Central Engineering
- Support field modifications for complex solutions
- Support Supplier Quality at the depot for complex investigations and non-conformance (NCR) claims
- Technical support for Reliability Growth through investigations and data analysis.
- Technical support for Warranty Field Engineer in order to ensure maximum train availability
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