Requirement Lead Engineer

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 role

The role is for technical & commercial management of requirements. The focus is supporting the management of the Technical Specification in DOORS (Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System) for a high-speed project execution. The role included understanding and linking the interface register to Customer Technical Specification clauses and managing technical contract movement with the commercial management team.  Contract management of the MSA (Manufacture & Supply Agreement) and purchaser/manufacturer change notifications (PCN/MCN) for changes in design and linking this with the Requirements in DOORs up to Critical Design Gate (CDR) (in affect design freeze).

We’ll look to you for:

• Manage the schedule of requirements management activities in accordance with the deadlines of each project and identify priority conflicts, risks and management of contract change leading to not meeting commitments.
• Import technical content and manage change of the Contract (MSA) into DOORs as an Engineering V-Cycle deliverable.
• Support is based on Process, method & tool training, support in requirement quality review, support user manipulating the tool.
• Reporting Contract movement (KPI) for the project
• Supporting COD (Chief of Development), TPM (Train Performance Manager), CAM (Certification & Authorisation Manager), TSM (Train Safety Manager), TAM (Train Architecture Manager), TDE (Train Design Engineer), SAA (System Architecture Area), TCE (Train Control Engineer) and TSS (Train Sub Systems) in:

• • Clarifying and cleaning requirements,
  • Synthetising requirements,
  • Analysing & developing requirements,
  • Allocating requirements, Defining Means of Proof associated to Requirements.

• Contract interface changes captured and managed.
• Communication and propagating requirements to the modules.
• Liaising with Commercial team on all technical movement (via controlled change notifications/CR (Change Request))

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:

•    System Engineering (including S/W (Software)) preferably applied to Railway products
•    Experience in using DOORs and knowledge of full end-to-end V-Cycle
•    Rollingstock (vehicle) knowledge
•    Ability to handle difficult situations
•    Ability to read a requirement in context is essential
•    Understanding interfaces (ICDs) and the impact on design and customer requirement.
•    Understanding of contract construction (MSA)
•    Experience in Rail Industry is preferred
•    Awareness of rail vehicle certification would be beneficial
•    Experience of ensuring external Customer Compliance

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

·      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!