Location: Derby
Appointment Basis: Permanent
Salary: £60K DOE with excellent benefits
Closing Date: 29th October 2025
At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.
Your future 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 you 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
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
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
- The role offers car or car allowance
- Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
- Contribute to innovative projects
- Utilise our dynamic, inclusive, and safety-focused working environment
- 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)
- Up to 52 weeks full maternity and adoption pay
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday
- A wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle
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!
Equal opportunity statement:
Alstom is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.
As a ‘Disability Confident’ employer, we will interview all disabled job applicants who match the essential criteria of the job description or specification. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
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