Engineering Specialist (Painting) at Alstom

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

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

Internal

• Tender: Industrial costing mgr
• Engineering: Domain leader / RLE / Sub-system leader
• PME: domain leader / Process Engineers (RLI) / Method engineer / PIM
• Quality: Industrial Quality / Inspectors / PrQM / SPQD, SQA
• Supply Chain: Logistic methods
• Sourcing: Buyer / Sub-contractors
• EHS team

Central (HQ)

• Special process experts network and Central Coordinator
• Engineering expert
• SQD: support under governance of central coordinator

External

• Local suppliers
• Customers representatives on site
• Certification agencies
• Standards committee ( unless responsibility is exclusively devoted to the central coordinator)

Main Responsibilities
Key accountabilities:

Tender:

• Contribute to tender phase when required, especially in product design and industrialization to take into account industrial constraints and requirements in order to optimize costs and minimize risks.

Concurrent Engineering:

• Contributes during specification and design phases to technical solution decisions associated to special processes.
• Build the Special Process REX and interact with product engineering to redirect the design if necessary.

Industrialization:

• Manage industrial risk through Process FMEA and associated improvement action plan.
• Define requirements and rules 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 Supplier Quality Development teams in the suppliers’ qualification and in quality follow up for suppliers concerned by Special Process. Contribute to development of local suppliers.
• Manage evolution of quality control process dedicated to Special Process.
• Ensure deployment and validation of new processes in line with project planning
• Issue relevant documents in the Quality System.
• Manages technicians that are eventually under his responsibility.
• Perform Transfer of Technology on Special Process: documentation, process and means validation, training.

Transmission:

• Train the workers and EPU managers and Industrial Quality Inspectors to execute Special Process.
• Ensure continuous training and permanent qualification of the workers to Special Process.
• Train support functions to business rules linked to Special Process (Engineering, PME, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Quality)

Execution / Serial manufacturing:

• Guarantees internal control and good application of process rules in line with customers’ requirements.
• Thus performs internal and external audits.
• Ensure day to day monitoring of Special Process business rules and solve issues concerning Special Process.
• In case of non-conformity or incident, investigate root causes, finds and implement repair solutions.
• Demonstrate Quality, Cost, Delivery and Environment, Health and Safety improvement linked to Special Process 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 Special Process network and Standards committee
• Propose improvement ideas and evolution of the business rules of their domain.

Responsibilities

• In case of major Special Process 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 has the duty to control his external communication (written and oral) as it engages the responsibility of AT towards third parties.

Performance measurements :

• 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 planning.
• Zero non conformity during internal or external audits.
• Level of deployment of Special Process standards rules
• Contribution to site industrial QCD targets.
• Reactivity and consistency during expertise during defect or incident.
• FAI validated for all installations involving Special Process and flagged as “technical or industrial risk” before GSR (Serial Go)

Main Required Competences
Educational Requirements
Mandatory :

• Engineering degree in process engineering, mechanical or chemical.
• Training and Qualification by a third party for Special Process if need be (eg painting / spray painting)

Desirable:

• ECSA registration as Professional Engineer

Experience
Mandatory:

• 10 years’ experience in industrial methods
• Practice the special process in question from 5 to 10 years (execution, definition, qualification)
• Is officially recognised as expert by the Special Process central coordinator
• Occupationally fit to work in this environment - see in colour, work in confined spaces, working at hights.
• Advance MS office skill
• Advance written and verbal communication in English

Desirable:

• Locomotive carbody knowledge
• Has been trained to AT Special Process standard training.

Competencies & Skills

• Independent, rigorous, good communication.
• Good teaching skills (able to provide training to a group of trainees).
• Innovative, participative in business workgroups.
• Financial Acumen
• Conscientious. Commits and delivers.
• Team Player. Spirit of “Team Trust Action”
• Decisive. Obtains and uses necessary information to make decisions. Refers decision to others when appropriate
• Ability to Coach Others.
• Self-Motivation. Is inspired by the job in hand and inspires others to achieve agreed goals
• Logical and organized
• Ability to interpret highly complex information and independently respond to a variety of complex technical issues
• Good communication skills both written and verbal
• Prepared to work extended hours and shifts if required
• Knowledge of OSHACT
• Advanced level of organising and planning
• Interpersonal Skills
• Networking and Relationship Building Skills
• Leadership
• Customer orientated
• Result driven
• Emotional self-awareness and control
• Judgment and Decision making