Bid Technical Manager

Req ID:418300

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 Bid Technical Manager, and you’ll be looking at a career-defining role based in Pittsburgh (PA), US.

Manage the technical contractual scope of the bid ensuring its delivery according to the quality, cost, performance and scheduled commitment originally agreed .

Your responsibilities will include:

Manage the technical contractual scope of the bid:

• Manage the project technical risks and the corresponding mitigation plan
• Validate the technical design choices with the peers and Solution Director
• Identify which are the applicable regulations in the customer country/city and ensure they are taken into account in project solution design

Define the proposed solution, including the customization and specific configuration of the generic solution to meet Quality, Cost, Delivery and Performance (QCDP) commitments:

• Ensure, with support of the required experts and involving all stakeholders, that all the technical requirements of the contract are fully addressed throughout the project lifecycle, from the capture stage up to the demonstration
• Ensure design and application engineering activities are meeting customer requirements.
• establish BOM / Bill of Quantity for satisfyng the requirements
• interface with signaling and rolling stock teams to ensure compliance

Functionally lead the bid engineering team:

• Allocate Task(s) across the turnkey Engineering team and ensure engineering activities follow-up
• Together with the Solution Director, define the arhcitecture for the system
• Deploy the applicable engineering process, methods & tools on the bid
• Manage the interface with the bid core team:
• Provide all technical documents to the bid core team members for the industrialisation, sourcing, installation, test and commissioning (product BOQ, architecture schematics, ...)
• Solve technical issues detected by different core team members to develop the cost effective soltuon for a winning bid
• Support RC Project Engineering Domain/Metiers Department Head to define/perform knowledge capitalization

As our ideal candidate you have:

• A Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Engineering, Computer Science or related field
• An engineering background including project deployment full lifecycle view
• Professional engineering license is preferred
• Hands-on experience on functional or hierarchical team management
• Cost and planning control experience in engineering scope, budget background
• Customer relationship/interfacing skills
• Products and services knowledge on different market segments (transit, specifically APM)) (Desirable)
• Engineering product development full lifecycle view (Desirable)
• Product safety awareness(Desirable)
• Communication skills
• Interpersonal skills (teamwork and leadership)

Alstom is the leading company in the mobility sector, solving the most interesting challenges for tomorrow’s mobility. That’s why we value inquisitive and innovative people who are passionate about working together to reinvent mobility, making it smarter and more sustainable. Day after day, we are building an agile, inclusive and responsible culture, where a diverse group of people are offered opportunities to learn, grow and advance in their careers, with options across functions and geographic locations. Are you ready to join a truly international community of great people on a challenging journey with a tangible impact and purpose?

Join Alstom and discover how we make innovation better!

Equal opportunity statement:
Alstom is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.

Effective 29 January 2021, Alstom completed the acquisition of Bombardier Transportation. This is a Bombardier Transportation Legal Entity Position - positions at Bombardier Transportation companies are all members of the Alstom Group.

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