Train Performance Manager

Overview

In this role, you ensure train performance meets customer and regulatory needs while achieving QCD targets. You act as the main technical focal point for the customer and oversee train-level requirements, system validation, and convergence across the project lifecycle. You lead cross-functional system development, interface definitions, and issue resolution during revenue service. You will drive cyber security compliance for Life on Board systems, enabling safer, smarter mobility.

Pay / Benefits

• stability and long-term career
• collaborative working environment
• investment in development and learning
• competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension)
• maternity/adoption pay up to 52 weeks
• 25 days annual leave plus holidays, with buy/sell option

Responsibilities

• Serve as the customer-facing technical lead for system and Life on Board performance topics
• Lead train-level system development, validation, and architecture definition
• Translate customer and regulatory needs into train-level requirements and specifications
• Coordinate requirements allocation to sub-systems and define electrical/functional interfaces
• Ensure consistency with Alstom standards and support convergence with Sub-Systems Groups and suppliers
• Oversee verification and validation activities at system level for Life on Board
• Guide issue resolution during revenue service from investigation to closure
• Ensure cyber security requirements are met for Life on Board systems

Key requirements

• Extensive knowledge of products, projects, systems, and railway engineering
• Experience in team/technical management including cross-functional collaboration
• Ability to switch between problem and solution perspectives
• Capability to lead a system within a project team
• Ability to challenge and be challenged
• Strong stakeholder communication across multiple metiers
• Analytical problem-solving and decision-making in complex environments
• Willingness to travel when required
• Experience on major railway projects and various product types is desirable
• Knowledge of railway operability in system design
• Experience in requirements management using DOORS
• Knowledge of MBSE and SysML

• Cross-functional collaboration
• Effective communication
• Problem-solving and analytical thinking
• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• Systems Modelling Language (SysML)
• Requirements management (DOORS)

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