Project Engineering Manager

Req ID:523873

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.

Alstom is seeking a Project Engineering Manager to lead the deployment of advanced rail signaling solutions, ensuring quality, cost, delivery, and performance commitments are met. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (design, verification & validation, and project management), manage technical risks and customer requirements, and functionally lead a multidisciplinary engineering team—and much more."

Responsibilities:

• Manage the technical contractual scope of the project:
• Be accountable for the customer acceptance of the project solution
• Manage the project technical risks and the corresponding mitigation plan
• Together with the Project Manager, in case of contractual scope evolution, rise variation order and manage it
• Validate the technical design choices with the peers and Solution Director
• Identify which are the applicable regulations in the customer country/city and ensure they are taken into account in project solution design
• Manage the project solution, including the customization and specific configuration of the generic solution to meet Quality, Cost, Delivery and Performance (QCDP) commitments:
• Ensure, with support of the required experts and involving all stakeholders, that all the technical requirements of the contract are fully addressed throughout the project lifecycle, from the capture stage up to the demonstration
• Act as a chairman of Project Change Control Board (CCB)
• Be responsible of the project design and application engineering activities
• Supervise Verification & Validation activities
• Be accountable for Engineering WP QCD
• Provide BOM
• Verify Project Safety Case (scope, strategy and exported constraints)
• Functionally lead the project engineering team:
• Allocate Task(s) across Project Engineering team and ensure engineering activities follow-up
• Together with Domain / Metier Leaders and RC Project Engineering Metier / Domain Department Heads, define the project engineering team organization according to the project phase (and as defined in the EMP)
• Deploy the applicable engineering process, methods & tools on the project
• Manage and participate in the evaluation of the project engineering team
• Share Environment, Health and Security (EHS) rules with project engineering team (receiving inputs from PM/Project EHS Manager/Coordinator or RC EHS Manager)
• Support assessment of the teams involved in project engineering activities, including the ones belonging to a different Regional Center.
• Manage the interface with the project core team:
• Provide all technical documents to the project core team members for the industrialisation, sourcing, installation, test and commissioning (product BOQ, architecture schematics, ...)
• Provide support to the Project Technical Manager on execution of technical activities on-shore (delegation of responsibility could be defined and formalised in the Engineering Management Plan of the Project)
• Solve technical issues detected by different core team members
• During project warranty, coordinate actions to support resolution of pending technical issues following Project Warranty Manager (PrWM) requirements
• Support PrQSM to consolidate the REX of the Project and the Reliability Growth
• Support RC Project Engineering Domain/Metiers Department Head to define/perform knowledge capitalization

Performance Measurement:

• Project QCDP (quality, cost, delivery and performance)
• Project Specification, including Design documents & Projects V&V documents approval status
• Project requirement database maturity (it covers “traceability & coverage of requirements by V&V”)
• Engineering management plan application
• Assessment results based on internal audits and process inspections (applied in the project)

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
• 10–15 years of experience in engineering project delivery and multidisciplinary leadership.
• Proven ability to manage project budgets, schedules, and technical performance.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work on-site three days per week and adapt to evolving project needs.

Office Presence

This role requires an on-site presence of three (3) days per week. The requirement may be adjusted based on project needs and business priorities.

Use of Artificial Intelligence in Hiring

We do not use artificial intelligence in the recruiting process for this role.

Interview Process & Candidate Communication

Candidates who participate in an interview for this role will be informed of the hiring decision within 45 days of their final interview date. This job posting represents an existing vacancy.

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.