Reliability Project Engineering Manager

Job Description:

Alstom is the UK & Ireland’s leading supplier of new trains and train services, and a leading signalling and rail infrastructure provider. Alstom have built, or are building, just under 40% of the UK mainline train fleet; as well as the entire fleets in service with London Underground and Dublin Luas.

Your future Reliability Project Engineering Manager role

Join us as Reliability Project Engineering Manager (PrEM) and take ownership of technical decisions related to reliability within the project team, ensuring alignment with overall engineering goals. You will lead and coordinate reliability engineering activities—whether in project development, R&D, or sustaining phases—by delivering the Reliability Engineering Work Package in line with quality, cost, and delivery (QCD) commitments.

We’ll look to the Reliability Project Engineering Manager for:

• Acts as the key engineering representative for reliability within the project core team, managing interfaces with other Function Leads and other PrEMs across leading and participating units.
• Represent Alstom Project Engineering:
  • In front of customer to provide global view of design progress, issues, risks. For detailed technical discussions, PrEM must delegate to the right person (Technical Expert…) who will provide him/her with Minutes of Meeting.
  • In front of partners in case of consortium: PrEM ensures that the inputs/outputs and design reviews are in-time, with the right quality level.
• Providing to their management regular reporting and performance analysis (PrEM cockpit)
• Managing functionally the project engineering core team (Technical Experts and Functional Leads) and their commitment for the project.
• Providing regular updates to workload manager on project engineering firm workload including forecasted internal and external change orders, based on inputs from Métiers team.
• Escalating to Métiers/ Senior Management staffing issues (under-staffing, competences, subcontracting problems, under performance).
• Following and updating baseline on a regular basis, validates Variation Orders demands (external or internal) requested by project, quotes them with involvement from metiers, and updates engineering work package, accordingly, ensuring proper traceability.
• Approving, as a member of Change Control Board (CCB) applicable modifications on product, and updates QCD accordingly. 
• Managing the Global Scheduling Convergence, with support of Engineering Planning Manager.
• Managing the Operational Quality to improve Project execution, with support of Engineering Quality Manager.
• Plans necessary Design Reviews, checks mandatory attendees are invited, makes sure they are done on-time and issues are opened in Project Single List of Issues (PSLI).
• Animates Engineering issues of PSLI and is responsible for having key reliability issues closed in time.
• Is responsible for engineering points within Design For Quality (DFQ) Gate Review checklists, provides to PM/Sub System Manager (SSM)/PrEM Manager their prognostic and puts in place necessary actions to mitigate a No-Go risk.
• Managing Engineering risks mitigation and savings action plans.
• Provides to PM/SSM all inputs to update the key process documents.

All about you as Reliability Project Engineering Manager

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: 

• Mechanical and/or Electrical Engineering experience is required.
• Experience or understanding of reliability engineering principles and practices.
• Familiarity with project management processes and cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Adaptability to work in both R&D and operational project environments.
• Leadership skills to guide and coordinate multidisciplinary teams.
• Continuous learning mindset to stay updated with industry advancements.
• Process management experience.
• Customer Focus / Management skills.
• Structured and organised with Hand-on approach.
• Fluent in English