Project Engineering Manager (PrEM) Turnkey

In brief

**Overview** This role is for a Project Engineering Manager (PrEM) Turnkey at Alstom, located in Nigel, Ekurhuleni, at a production site. The primary purpose of the job is to manage the technical contractual scope of a project, ensuring its delivery aligns with the initially agreed quality, cost, performance, and scheduled commitments, which may be updated by negotiated variation orders. The position may also require visits to suppliers and other Alstom sites/offices. **What you will do** As a Project Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for: * Managing the technical contractual scope of the project, ensuring its delivery according to quality, cost, performance, and scheduled commitments. * Being accountable for the customer acceptance of the project solution. * Managing project technical risks and their corresponding mitigation plans. * Raising and managing variation orders with the Project Manager in case of contractual scope evolution. * Validating technical design choices with peers and the Solution Director. * Identifying applicable regulations in the customer country/city and ensuring their integration into the project solution design. * Ensuring, with support from experts and involving all stakeholders, that all technical requirements of the contract are fully addressed throughout the project lifecycle, from capture to demonstration. * Acting as a chairman of the Project Change Control Board (CCB). * Being responsible for project design and application engineering activities. * Supervising Verification & Validation activities. * Being accountable for Engineering Work Package (WP) Quality, Cost, Delivery (QCD). * Providing the Bill of Materials (BOM). * Verifying Project Safety Case scope, strategy, and exported constraints. * Allocating tasks across the Project Engineering team and ensuring the follow-up of engineering activities. * Defining the project engineering team organization according to the project phase, in conjunction with Domain/Metier Leaders and RC Project Engineering Metier/Domain Department Heads. * Deploying the applicable engineering process, methods, and tools on the project. * Managing and participating in the evaluation of the project engineering team. * Sharing Environment, Health and Security (EHS) rules with the project engineering team. * Supporting the assessment of teams involved in project engineering activities, including those belonging to a different Regional Center. * Providing all technical documents (e.g., product BOQ, architecture schematics) to project core team members for industrialization, sourcing, installation, test, and commissioning. * Providing support to the Project Technical Manager on the execution of technical activities on-shore, with potential delegation of responsibility formalized in the Engineering Management Plan. * Solving technical issues detected by different core team members. * During project warranty, coordinating actions to support the resolution of pending technical issues as per Project Warranty Manager (PrWM) requirements. * Supporting the Project Quality & Safety Manager (PrQSM) to consolidate the Return on Experience (REX) of the Project and Reliability Growth. * Supporting RC Project Engineering Domain/Metiers Department Head to define/perform knowledge capitalization. * Performance measurements include Project QCDP (quality, cost, delivery, and performance), Project Specification and Project V&V documents approval status, Project requirement database maturity, Engineering management plan application, and assessment results based on internal audits and process inspections. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **Educational Requirements/Desired Knowledge/Experience & Behaviour** * **MANDATORY:** * Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Engineering, Computer Science or scientific subjects. * **DESIRABLE:** * Master in Business Administration and/or * Master in Project Management. * **Experience** * **MANDATORY:** * Engineering background including project deployment full lifecycle view. * Hands-on experience on functional or hierarchical team management. * Cost and planning control experience in engineering scope. * Hands-on experience on Customer relationship in contractual situations. * **DESIRABLE:** * Products and services knowledge on different market segments (Urban, Mainline, F&M). * Engineering product development full lifecycle view. * Safety background. * **Competencies & Skills** * Communication skills. * Interpersonal skills (teamwork and leadership). * Decision-making ability. * Analytical and critical thinking. * Problem-solving ability. * Resilience. **Who should apply** This role is suitable for candidates with a Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, or scientific subjects, who possess a strong engineering background with a comprehensive view of the full project deployment lifecycle. Applicants must have practical experience in managing functional or hierarchical teams, controlling costs and planning within an engineering scope, and handling customer relationships in contractual environments. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong communication, interpersonal skills (including teamwork and leadership), decision-making ability, analytical and critical thinking, problem-solving ability, and resilience. Candidates with a Master's in Business Administration or Project Management, knowledge of various market segments (Urban, Mainline, F&M), experience in the engineering product development full lifecycle, or a safety background are also encouraged to apply. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/project-engineering-manager-prem-turnkey-alstom Source: myjobmag

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