Head of Verification - Derby, United Kingdom - ALSTOM

ALSTOM

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Derby, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Req ID 401088

Head of Verification & Validation

Site:
Derby / Hybrid

Appointment Basis:
Permanent

Excellent Salary + Benefits:

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

Employing 6,000 people within the UK & Ireland, we are the prominent 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.

Purpose of the Role

Take the challenge of leading an engineering team and provide effective guidance.
Build the vision of your Métier and involve the team in its implementation, aiming at continuous improvement in productivity and performances.
Plan, grow and acknowledge team expertise.
Be responsible for supervising, managing and motivating team members on a daily basis.
Act proactively addressing projects and/or development commitments and collaborating with you peers for seamless and successful operations.
As a Department Head, you will interact with all team members, so your communication as well as your motivation skills should be excellent. Your role will be to define the path for continuous improvement of performance and effectiveness of your team.

Key Accountabilities

Define and implement engineering vision (team profile and skills, discipline evolutions in terms of technology, department competitiveness,)
Set clear team goals, delegate task and set deadlines
Provide support to team project/program execution
Promote Alstom values to his/her team
Continuously motivate, encourage, evaluate and recognize, train and develop resources, in cooperation with HR, as per approved performance evaluation process and targets
Recognize high performance and reward accomplishments
Develop the growth of World Class Engineering (WCE) Experts
Secure the Alstom Communication process with the team
Be accountable of Process, Methods and Tools deployment in his/her scope, and contribute to their improvement
Provide to Reference Library Manager, Reference Library (cost structure & cost drivers) of his/her Métier / domain and improvement roadmap in line with Solution competitiveness roadmap + progress report, when applicable
Foster the collection and sharing of REX from project/program execution
Review workload forecasts and capacity, leveraging on subcontracting & business strategies as well as footprint objectives, and staff adequately Projects/Bids and Programs
Participate to tender Design Reviews and Documentation Reviews as per tender strategy and relevance
Commit in Project/Program/Tender Quality Cost Delivery (QCD) related to its Métier/domain

Key job authorities and dimensions:

Staffing (hiring management, recruitment process)
Budget (workpackages and capex)
Department size can be assumed to range between 1050 people/15 M€

Performance management:

Staffing: Total Capacity versus Workload, analysis and action plan, this in line with budget targets.
Métiers Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
Team maturity level and polyvalence
Achievement of Competitiveness Targets concerning Ref Lib of métier/domain

Educational Requirements:

Mandatory:

Desirable:

Master's Degree in Engineering or scientific topics
Degree in Management or training in team leading will be an asset

Experience

Mandatory:

Previous experience in complex development environment (railways, automotive, aerospace )
Engineering and processes background
Experience in project / program execution and management
Understanding in execution effort estimation

Desirable:

Knowledge of several Alstom platform
Métierspecific background
Experience in team management
Involvement in projects with teams in other Regional and Development Centers, established

- networking

Competencies & Skills

Excellent communication and leadership skills
Openminded

- (Self) entrepreneurial

Organization and timemanagement skills
Decisionmaking skills

What we offer

We offer a highly competitive starting salary, 25 days annual leave with the opportunity to increase this to 30 days, healthcare, life assurance, an excellent company-contributed pension scheme, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your life-style.

Application Process
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