Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical) RB

In brief

**Overview** This role at Alstom is for a Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical) RB, responsible for ensuring the optimal functioning and availability of equipment. The primary purpose is to plan and maintain equipment in adherence to EHS rules, Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) principles, and manufacturer’s specifications. The position involves managing subcontractors for daily maintenance, investigating breakdowns to analyze root causes, and striving to minimize downtime to prevent disruptions to production. A core objective is to achieve and maintain 95% availability across all equipment, plant, and tools. The role requires collaboration with key networks including Support Functions (e.g., Supply-Chain, production, quality), Sourcing & Tooling Suppliers, and Maintenance subcontractors. **What you will do** * Plan, supervise, and monitor the execution of planned and unplanned maintenance activities including calibrations and other interventions. * Coordinate forecasts emerging as an output from the Maintenance Management System of customer. * Ensure that maintenance schedules are detailed, documented and implemented correctly by Customer. * Ensure minimum disruption of maintenance activities through effective planning, communication, and coordination with other stakeholders. * Investigate breakdowns and interruptions through the application of root cause analysis and other techniques. * Plan for maintenance consumables and spares, and ensure availability of spares through effective stock control. * Monitor and record Locomotive availability, utilization and other KPI’s MTBF, MTTR etc. * Ensure records such as status labels, certificates, reports, lifting device certificate, firefighting equipment, certificates of compliance are kept in a traceable manner. * Maintain meticulous records of all maintenance, calibration & inspection interventions. * Ensure all maintenance activity complies with quality procedure and safety regulations. * Ensure that contractors are inducted, supervised, and disciplined to adhere to quality and safety requirements. * To establish together with the equipment maintenance contractors the planning of the maintenance activities. * To participate and be involved in APSYS actions like TPM, work instructions for equipment preventive maintenance to guarantee overall equipment availability and effectiveness. * To manage and follow up the optimum functioning of equipment installations maintenance team. * To report the required data of equipment in conformity with the industrial needs: availability of equipment and follow-up of the linked indicators. * To ensure the follow-up of all the equipment documentation paper and informatics support. * To undertake other duties as specified by the Service Engineering Manager. * To carry out such work in accordance with strict Health & Safety procedures as laid down by legislation and the Company Health & Safety policies. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **Behaviour:** * Flexible and Adaptable (Can adapt to new ideas, new issues) * Conscientious (Meets proposed deadlines with ability to work under pressure) * Team Player (Supports team members, Spirit of “Agile Inclusive Responsible”) * Desire to learn and develop * Analysis capacity * Ability to Coach Others (Occasionally has to share skills/information to others) * Self-Motivation (Is inspired by the job in hand and inspires others to achieve agreed goals) * Logical and organized * Planning and organization skills * Communication skills efficient at all levels of organisation * Autonomous * **Educational Requirements:** * Technical University Education – Mechatronics/Electrical/ Mechanical degree * IT literate Word, Excel, PowerPoint * English fluency * **Experience:** * 3-5 years of experience in Railways system/Application engineering * Maintenance background with minimum 5 years’ experience in activities of operation and maintenance preferably in manufacturing * Technical background with minimum 5 years’ experience * Management experience * Experience related to follow-up of subcontracted activity * Ability to read and understand schematics, drawings, and software specifications * Working knowledge of Quality and Health & Safety standards and systems preferable **Who should apply** Candidates with a Technical University Degree in Mechatronics, Electrical, or Mechanical engineering are invited to apply. Essential experience includes 3-5 years in Railways system/Application engineering, a minimum of 5 years in operation and maintenance activities (preferably manufacturing), and a technical background of at least 5 years. Management experience and experience in managing subcontracted activities are also required. Applicants must be IT literate (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and fluent in English. The ideal candidate will be flexible, adaptable, conscientious, a team player, self-motivated, logical, organized, possess strong analysis capacity, planning, and communication skills, and have the ability to coach others and work autonomously. A working knowledge of Quality and Health & Safety standards and systems is preferable. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/maintenance-engineer-mechanical-rb-alstom Source: myjobmag

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