Sub-System Manager

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Company: Alstom

What if you could join a team of dedicated, creative and innovative people?

Leading societies to a low carbon future, Alstom develops and markets mobility solutions that provide the sustainable foundations for the future of transportation. Our product portfolio ranges from high-speed trains, metros, monorail, and trams to integrated systems, customised services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility solutions. Joining us means joining a caring, responsible, and innovative company where more than 70,000 people lead the way to greener and smarter mobility, worldwide.

Join us as Sub‑System Manager, and you’ll be looking at a career-defining role based in La Pocatière (QC), CA.

You will be responsible for management and successful completion of cross‑functional activities leading to the delivery of a project sub‑system, fulfilling both customer needs and committed QCDP objectives. You will:

• Manage cross‑functionally sub‑system level stakeholders, activities and deliverables and make needed arbitration (engineering, product x process, Make or Buy, Costs, Milestones, Interfaces, …) to reach QCDP commitment
• Coordinate sub‑system activities with other project stakeholders including integration teams other sub‑systems and project level functions.

Your responsibilities will include:

Contribute to successful Project execution on allocated sub‑system scope of work:

• Apply Project Strategy according to defined contractual and Project commitments and targets, as allocated on sub‑system.
• Actively contribute to Project performance
• Alert in case of deviations impacting project objectives; actively contribute to risks and opportunity management
• Ensure compliance with applicable rules, instructions and standards, process & tools:
  Code of Ethics & Compliance, EHS, Railway Safety, Quality, Sourcing, PMM.

Lead and coordinate sub‑system activities and stakeholders, from requirement capture/analysis to the end of project contractual obligations limited to the sub‑system scope of work:

• Achieve QCDP objectives of its sub‑system
• Cascade and allocate sub‑system requirements and QCDP objectives to sub‑system team members
• Implement sub‑system WBS
• Plan, monitor, control and manage sub‑system end‑to‑end activities (scope, schedule, resources, cost, risks, saving, opportunities)
• Coordinate and support consistent cross‑functional execution of sub‑system objectives, activities and deliverables (Engineering, R&D programmes, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Indus when applicable, RAMS…)
• Lead teams in successful achievement of project objectives, synchronize stakeholders at sub‑system level and ensure stakeholder alignments
• Perform sub‑system level decisions and trade‑offs
• Rebaselining and change management at sub‑system level
• Manage sub‑system situation and KPI, and report with transparency
• Upon request from PM, is delegated to represent Alstom towards Customer and external stakeholders

Coordinate and synchronize sub‑system activities with other sub‑Systems and project teams:

• Actively contribute to the resolution of overarching/transverse optimizations or issues
• Manage interface with project‑level team members & project office (e.g. industrialization, control of configuration management, sourcing, quality) and ask if necessary, for PM arbitration
• Manage interface with train‑level teams (in charge of architecture and integration) and other sub‑system teams and ask if necessary, for Chief Engineer/Chief Operation arbitration

As our ideal candidate you have:

• IPMA level D (or equivalent)
• 2 years experience as manager of an operational scope
• Experience of working in and with multi‑national companies and in different business cultures
• Desirably knowledgeable of ALSTOM way of working for efficient process execution
• Global knowledge on the sub‑system
• Knowledge of Project management processes
• Capacity to coordinate and ensure collaboration of multi‑site/multi‑metier teams
• You are Result oriented

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