Maintenance Performance Center (MPC) Lead

Req ID:448804 

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, more than 80 000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

We are looking for a  Maintenance performance centre (MPC) Lead

Your future role:

Develop and deploy MPC

• Work with product line MPC team to understand and deploy MPC strategy/design, ensuring that the regional complexities or difficulties are managed appropriately and maintains the intent of MPC
• Consolidate the current depot organisations into a singular structure (where possible), considering impact on performance and people
• Integrate the MPC principles into the regional metiers, challenging the business to optimise their metiers and deliver the best performance possible
• Lead and direct meetings/workshops on the critical elements of the deployment ensuring there is a consensus and ownership of the objectives and actions
• Design and govern the mobilisation/implementation plan, ensuring the DFQ/Governance is maintained and that the schedule is maintained
• Ensure the regional teams are delivering their actions in a timely manner e.g. engineering, supply chain, HR etc.

Lead and coordinate MPC strategy & teams:

• Drive MPC strategy & 3YP in line with projects requirements (quality, cost, delivery, performance, railway safety, EHS)
• Lead and synchronize MPC operation teams & depots: engineering, RAM, RW safety, fleet management, fleet & depot planning, industrialisation, supply chain, preventive & corrective maintenance, repair & overhaul, depots management
• Manage staffing and develop resources & competencies (in multi-projects, multi-functional & multi-depots mode)
• Ensure the digital tools are used following the right processes and monitor compliance vs standards and objectives
• Ensure compliance with applicable rules, instructions and standards: Ethics & Compliance, EHS, Railway Safety, Quality

Manage MPC activities & performance:

• Manage the MPC performance and contribution to projects objectives and KPIs
• Engage MPC teams & depots in the successful achievement of project objectives and strengthen relationships among them
• Escalate when priorities & resources across teams/depots do not match projects needs and arbitrate with Projects Managers
• Manage proactively risks, savings and opportunities and give input to the R&O process of each project
• Improve and maintain usage of digital maintenance tools
• Provide data analytics about failures and implement condition-based maintenance across projects
• Deploy APSYS in RS Maintenance, drive mindset of continuous improvement and set-up depot and function improvement plans

Coordinate with Projects:

• Coordinate projects operations management in relation with Projects Managers
• Provide the full visibility of related project WP performance status
• Ensure a transparent priority management process and share arbitration decisions with Project managers
• Provide efficient support to Projects (anticipation of resources & competencies needs, reactivity for issues solving)

 Interface with Tenders:

• Provide REX data to Tender teams (costing, sizing, competencies, depots facilities…).
• Ensure most recent optimization standards are communicated and documented for future tenders
• Ensure the tendering strategy and benefits are detailed for the region, understand the pipeline and what could be integrated into an MPC

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:

• 10+ years as site, project or operation manager in railway industry of which at least 5 year experience of medium critical projects
• Experience of working in and with multi-functional, multi-sites or multi-projects teams
• Experience of mobilising large maintenance projects
• Knowledgeable of ALSTOM way of working for efficient process execution
• Good knowledge and connections with transport clients / customers in the country
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking and decision making
• Proactive and efficient responses to pressing issues and challenges
• Strong ability to convince, influence & persuade
• Leadership, entrepreneurship mindset and result oriented
• Business Acumen
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Global & Cultural Awareness
• Excellent leadership qualities (capability to coordinate and ensure collaboration of multi-sites/multi-functional/multi-projects teams)
• Resilient and able to deliver operationally in a demanding and changing environment
• Good planning and organization skill

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!

Important to note

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63  countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.

Job Type:​Experienced​