Component Sub-System Manager

Leading societies to a low carbon future, Alstom develops and markets mobility solutions that provide the sustainable foundations for the future of transportation. Our product portfolio ranges from high-speed trains, metros, monorail, and trams to integrated systems, customised services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility solutions. Joining us means joining a caring, responsible, and innovative company where more than 70,000 people lead the way to greener and smarter mobility, worldwide 

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• To be responsible for management and successful completion of a component on a complex scope, fulfilling both customer needs and committed Quality Cost Delivery Planning (QCDP) objectives in a high criticality or medium criticality project.
• Manage component level stakeholders, activities and deliverables and make needed arbitration (engineering, product x process, Make or Buy, Costs, Milestones, Interfaces, …) to reach QCDP commitment
• Coordinate component activities with sub-system stakeholders.

MAIN RESPONSABILITIES

1/ Contribute to successful Project execution on allocated component scope of work:

• Apply Project Strategy according to defined contractual and Project commitments and targets, as allocated on component.
• Actively contribute to Project performance
• Alert in case of deviations impacting project objectives; actively contribute to risks and opportunity management
• Ensure compliance with applicable rules, instructions and standards, process & tools: Code of Ethics & Compliance, Environment Health & Safety, Railway Safety, Quality, Sourcing, PMM.

2/ Lead and coordinate component activities and stakeholders, from requirement capture/analysis to the end of project contractual obligations limited to the component scope of work:

• Achieve QCDP objectives of its component
• Cascade and allocate component requirements and QCDP objectives to component team members
• Implement component WBS
• Plan, monitor, control and manage component end-to-end activities (scope, schedule, resources, cost, risks, saving, opportunities)
• Coordinate and support consistent execution of component objectives, activities and deliverables (Engineering, Research & Develoment programs, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Indus when applicable, Reliability Availability Maintainability Safety (RAMS)…)
• Lead teams in successful achievement of project objectives, synchronize stakeholders at component level and ensure stakeholder alignments
• Perform component level decisions and trade-offs
• Rebase lining and change management at component level
• Manage component situation and Key Performance Indicators (KPI), and report with transparency
• Upon request from PM, is delegated to represent Alstom towards Customer and external stakeholders

3/ Coordinate and synchronize component activities with other component and sub-system teams:

• Actively contribute to the resolution of overarching/transverse optimizations or issues
• Manage interface with sub-system-level team members & project office (e.g. industrialization, control of configuration management, sourcing, quality) and ask if necessary, for sub-system manager arbitration

Performance measurements: 

• Delivery of component in accordance with QCD targets (QCD KPIs) and all contractual requirements

MAIN REQUIRED COMPETENCES

Educational Requirements

Mandatory:

Master degree or bachelor degree

Desirable:

IPMA level D (or equivalent)

Experience

Mandatory:

• 2 years experience as component manager
• Experience of working in and with multi-national companies and in different business cultures

Desirable:

• Knowledgeable of ALSTOM way of working for efficient process execution
• Global knowledge on the component

Competencies & Skills