Job Description

The Railway industry today is characterized by both a strong and sustained growth across the world. The trends that drive this are well known: environmental challenges, population growth, urbanization and increasing demands for mobility. With 6Bxe2x82xac of Sales and around 30,000 employees based in over 60 countries, Alstom develop & market the most complete range of systems, equipment and services offered today in the railway sector. Today we offer our customers solutions that feature a seamless blend of diverse technologies, ensuring optimal interfaces, along with flexible implementation and real synergy in innovation.

Purpose of the Job:
The Quality Technician manages in his/her scope of work, the actions to ensure the conformity of the product and to help the continuous improvement on quality processes. Ensure the conformity of the product and act quickly to solve quality issues. The position report to the Subs Quality Manager.

Department: Quality

Vacancy: Subs Quality Technician (Permanent)

Organization Structure:
Based in the Manufacturing site in Dunnottar where Commissioning and Train Acceptance activities will be performed.

Network & Links:
Manufacturing leader, Methodists, Quality Technicians, Engineering and Supplier Quality.

Team:

Key responsibilities include the following:

• Ensure the conformity of the product delivered
• Ensure the respect of the Control Plan and Self Inspection at each workstation
• Create non-conformity Report in the GSI system and ensure the curative actions are defined
• Analyse and find the root cause of repetitive non-compliance and/or reworks - QRQC methods
• Update the list of defects still open - validate and close the reworks done
• Day to day quality activities
• In process inspection during manufacturing of a train
• Generate reports for inspections performed
• Co-ordinate and manage repairs or modification projects at various car repair locations
• Auditing and approval of repair
• Working with engineering drawings for car modifications and New Car builds
• Maintain records of testing, information and various metrics such as number of defective products per day etc.
• Inspect procedures of the entire production cycle to ensure they are efficient and comply with safety standards
• Monitor the use of equipment to safety and maintenance
• Generate and submit reports to the quality manager
• Select output samples and check them using appropriate methods (measuring dimensions, testing functionality, comparing to specifications etc.)
• Alert operators using the quality visions on the defect that were detected during inspection
• Adhere to EHS rules and any work-related processes

Educational Requirements :

• National Diploma in the related field
• IT literate (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, outlook).
• Level 1 Welding Inspector, Level 1 NDT (PT & UT) will be advantageous.
• Technical knowledge with 1 to 3 years' experience preferably in the railway industry, in quality, ideally in an international organization.
• Knowledge about welding
• Quality assurance, quality management, Product inspection, manufacturing management, or a related field
• Mathematical, technical and mechanical skills, knowledge of production, processing, electronics, computers; able to use analytic and scientific, database, and Excel spread sheet , use of measuring tools

Closing Date: 27 September 2023

The Railway industry today is characterized by both a strong and sustained growth across the world. The trends that drive this are well known: environmental challenges, population growth, urbanization and increasing demands for mobility. With 6Bxe2x82xac of Sales and around 30,000 employees based in over 60 countries, Alstom develop & market the most complete range of systems, equipment and services offered today in the railway sector. Today we offer our customers solutions that feature a seamless blend of diverse technologies, ensuring optimal interfaces, along with flexible implementation and real synergy in innovation.

Alstom