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The REM project is located in Montreal, Canada and its operation and maintenance activities are spread across a 67km network with its maintenance facilities in Brossard and Saint-Eustache. Alstom’s scope for the project is to support the operator and maintainer by providing technical support and spare parts for the rolling stock and signaling activities focusing mainly on level 4 maintenance activities.
As a maintenance system engineer on the REM project your main activities would be :
Safety Management:
- Execute safety risk analysis for concession management
- Contribute to maintaining the highest standards in railway and employee safety through maintenance operations.
- Supports the Product Safety management system ensuring safety risks are mitigated in a timely manner.
- Captures and ensures ownership of regulations and standards to be applied.
Technical Data Management
- Manages and updates the technical documentation within the system and any required interface with the MMIS (Updating of drawings, documentation, Technical Library)
- Define technical requirements in order to develop the work instructions and processes from the maintenance plan and maintenance manuals.
Maintenance Support Activities
- Analyses failure criticality studies and uses RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) and other available methodologies to define and optimize the maintenance requirements, tasks and intervals.
- Maintain and update the LCC model by sub-system and identify risks and opportunities related to the LCC
- Supports cost reduction actions, with sourcing and industrial teams.
- Monitor material and spare parts consumption to ensure parts availability for maintenance operations
- Prepare make or buy analysis for overhaul activities
Parts configuration and obsolescence management:
- Actively contributes to the Configuration and Design Change Management of the Project
- Maintains the applicable configuration for hardware and software.
- Ensures efficient parts codification in line with Platform rules: materials identification, codification process, interfaces with Alstom systems, quality and normative requirements.
- Manage the obsolescence management plan, ensure obsolescence monitoring and evaluate technical or logistical proposal to ensure availability of parts.
Technical Support:
- Provide technical support for troubleshooting, incidents investigations and recovery using Alstom standard processes such as 8D methodology.
- Capable of providing training to customer and maintenance operation staff when required
- Detects, defines and implements the modifications of the maintained products to improve its reliability and serviceability, in order to reduce project costs and improve the performance of the systems.
- Use available resources such as HealthHub to detect failure trends and identify necessary remedial actions.
Qualifications Requirements:
- 2+ years of experience in Railways system/Application engineering
- Knowledge of rolling stock equipment, mainly Bogie, TCMS, Traction, Air&Brakes
- Available 8hours/day and 5 days/week in one MSF and remain available on call (outside the 8/5 hours) and able to be in the MSF within 1 hour when on call
- 1-3 years of experience in Railways system/Application engineering
- Member of the Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec
- Knowledge of rolling stock equipment & Maintenance
- Working knowledge of safety management systems and safety risk assessment
- Proficient in the use of MS Office, SAP, Maximo
Competencies & Skills
- Problem solving capacity (technical and costs evaluation of a solution)
- Capacity of managing Technical risks
- Self-motivated
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work independently
- Desire to learn
- Effective, professional interpersonal skills
- Strong team player
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