Site Engineering Director - 445888

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, 74,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Could you be the full-time Site Engineering Director in Västerås, we’re looking for?

Your future role

Get on-board and apply your engineering expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll report to the Fredrik Owman, Site Managing Director, and work alongside passionate, motivated and dedicated teammates.

As Site Engineering Director, you are responsible for:

• 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 efficient offshoring of engineering work packages
• 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
• Ethics and Compliance
• EHS in engineering
• People and resource management
• KPI targets from SED dashboard
• Supervision of key technical decisions and safety critical issues
• People management cycle management on-time and quality of data with associated Training and development plans to reach target competence level

We’ll look to you for:

• Management and organization of engineering department
• Manage interfaces with other stakeholders on-site and off-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

All about you

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

• Project management incl. work package, risk and opportunity management> 5 years experience
• Complex Train Systems > 10 years experience
• Strong Leadership and people management experience
• Cooperation and Change management
• Fluency in English, willingness to learn basic Swedish

Things you’ll enjoy

Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:

• Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
• Contribute to innovative projects
• Utilise our activity-based working environment
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension).

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!

All internal employees must inform their Line Manager about applying for this job.

Important to note

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 70+ countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.