VIE - Junior Project Engineering Manager / Junior Product Manager (f/m/d)
Alstom ·
- Seniority
- Junior
- Category
- Product
- Company size
- 1000+
A junior Project Engineering Manager / Product Manager for traction systems at Alstom in Zurich, supporting delivery of international traction projects: tracking engineering progress, maintaining project dashboards and checklists, and automating standard reporting with PowerBI, PowerAutomate and SharePoint across teams in Switzerland, India, France and Germany.
At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signaling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.
Could you be the VIE – Junior Project Engineering Manager / Junior Product Manager Traction (f/m/d) in Zurich we’re looking for?
Your future role
Take on a new challenge and apply your traction project engineering and product management expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll report to Manuel SAUTER - Traction PrEM MAnager - CH, and work alongside passionate, motivated and dedicated international teammates. You’ll specifically take care of delivering international traction projects. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across
the business (Engineering, Advance Engineering, Quality, Procurement, Operations, Requirements Managers, Customers and Suppliers).You’ll be the person the team turns to for momentum and to push projects forward. No two days are the same, but day-to-day you’ll manage costing schedules, enable those around you to excel, and much more.
You’ll specifically take care of:
- Assist the Project Enineering Manager in monitoring the progress and status of Engineering progress.
- Collaborate with teams across multiple countries (Switzerland, India, France, and Germany) to ensure timely updates to the project dashboard, providing clear visibility of project milestones, risks, and critical points.
- Follow up with team members to ensure that they are filling the reporting with accurate and up-to-date information.
- Assist in the management of a checklist to assess the maturity of the project design, tracking tasks and deliverables for continuous improvement.
- Support communication and knowledge sharing among project stakeholders to promote collaboration and efficiency.
- Contribute to project reporting and documentation to facilitate decision-making and project transparency.
- Implement and automate new standard project reporting.
- Synchronise and standardize project reporting with other sites in France
We’ll look to you for:
- Actively contribute to Project performance
- Alert in case of deviations impacting project objectives, actively contribute to return of expirience mnagement.
- Ensure compliance with applicable rules, instructions and standards, process & tools, Code of Ethics & Compliance, Environment Health & Safety and Quality
- Plan, monitor, control and manage project end-to-end activities (scope, schedule, resources, cost)
- Coordinate and support consistent cross-functional execution objectives, activities and deliverables (Engineering, R&D programs, Procurement, Supply Chain, Indus when applicable, Reliability Availability Maintainability Safety (RAMS), etc.)
- Lead teams in successful achievement of project objectives, synchronize stakeholders at traction level and ensure stakeholder alignments
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:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering
- Very good knowledge of PowerBI, PowerAutomate or SharePoint and SharePoint list
- Passion for project management
- Capacity to coordinate and ensure collaboration of multi-site/multi-meter teams
- Being able to understand the organization, the processes and the products involved and decide independently when significant impact on QCD make it necessary to involve next level
- Ability to gain and apply insight from every project
- Flair for leading and influencing others
- An entrepreneurial mindset
- A proactive and resourceful approach
- Desire to work collaboratively in multinational company
- Strong communication and negotiation skills
- Adaptability and effective time management
- Detail-oriented
- Experience or understanding of conflict and crisis management
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 70+ countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.