Engineering

Testing And Commissioning Engineer (service Academy_toc Maintenance)

Alstom·Gauteng, south-africa·Full Time·Contract
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PURPOSE AND MISSION OF THE JOB:

  • Provides field engineering leadership, assist and support to projects & PI team for investigation, troubleshooting and resolution of technical/quality issues

KEY NETWORK & LINKS :

INTERNAL:

  • Participating Units and/or Subsystem Managers
  • Customer Site PI team
  • PI Support team (Back-office)
  • Reliability Availability Maintainability Safety Teams
  • Project Engineering team
  • Quality team (mainly Project Quality Safety Manager and Supplier Quality)
  • Installation and Test & Commissioning team
  • Internal Supplier representatives (Components/Participating Units)
  • Sourcing and Contract Manager
  • Integrated Service Readiness (ISR)
  • Maintenance/Service team
  • Global System representatives

EXTERNAL:

  • Train drivers
  • Customer site team
  • External Suppliers

MISSION & RESPONSIBILITIES :

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

  • Support any technical activity on Alstom products during PI period as well as Commissioning, Warranty (and Validation & Certification phase)
  • Diagnoses cause of malfunction/failure of operational equipment and recommends preventative and corrective actions
  • Define troubleshooting methodology
  • Provides technical guidance and supports technicians in troubleshooting and repairs
  • Provides feedback on technical documentation deficiencies.
  • Advises PI management regarding customer satisfaction, product performance, and suggestions for product enhancements
  • Drive Kx (8D) issues with Quality and internal & external Suppliers as support of Project Product Introduction Manager (PrPIM)
  • Ensure completeness and quality of input to Failure Management data base for RAMS exploitation
  • Drive Reliability Growth through failure/event investigation and reliability forecast implementation (with RAMS support).
  • Drive and support containment to avoid reoccurrence of failures
  • Supports as-maintained Alstom product configuration control and relevant documentation management
  • Support technical reviews with internal and external Suppliers, partners, customers, authorities
  • Ensure & facilitate information flow within the PI Customer Site, PI functions and project teams. Provides status and transparence on PI activities, key technical issues, to PrPIM.
  • Apply EHS requirements on site with the support of EHS team representatives
  • Drive technical Return of Experience/reporting/feedback as support of PrPIM
  • Support Obsolescence Management
  • Support preparation and implementation of Field Modifications (FM)
  • Support Services team on the preventative maintenance activities

MEASUREMENT

  • Achievement of contractual reliability (milestone) targets
  • Achievement of contractual availability (milestone) targets
  • Containment and solution of K1S/K2/K3 issues on time (Considering K1S - safety relevant issue, K2 - issue causing major passenger service disruption, K3 - issue having impact on service availability and product reliability)
  • Completeness and Quality of failure/event diagnosis/data and relevant documentation
  • Reliability improvement after FM implementation
  • Achievement of PI Dashboard
  • Achievement of configuration updates
  • Achievement of REX implementation
  • Audit results (internal and external)
  • Compliance with EHS rules and work-related processes

THE PREFERRED CANDIDATE WILL MEET THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS:

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

  • Graduate in Engineering or Industrial
  • Minimum IT knowledge
  • Internal EHS training

EXPERIENCE

  • Several years of technical experience, either mechanical or electrical / electronic engineering
  • Railway safety & RAM
  • EHS knowledge/exposure
  • Product knowledge
  • Data analytics
  • General Railway knowledge
  • Field Experience
  • Problem Solving skills
  • DFQ, Quality and Audit skills
  • Customer contact

Competencies & Skills

  • Ability to read and understand electrical, pneumatical and mechanical diagrams

Key skills

Bachelors

At a glance

Company

Alstom

Location

Gauteng, south-africa

Employment

Full Time

Experience

Valid until

Not specified

Created

October 19, 2026