Project Engineer

Job Purpose:
Manage the technical contractual scope of the project and functionally lead the project engineering team.

1) Job duties (Responsibilities and Accountabilities) :
• Manage the technical contractual scope of the project:
o Be accountable for the customer acceptance of the project solution, directly interfacing the customer technical reference for the project;
o Manage the project technical risks and the corresponding mitigation plan;
o Together with the Project Manager, in case of contractual scope evolution, rise variation order and manage the approval with the Change Control Board, using the appropriate procedures;
o Validate the technical design choices with the peers (Eg: V&V Manager), the AE Technical Advisor and the Product Development (R&D) Direction;
o Identify which are the applicable regulations in the customer country and ensure they are taken into account in project solution design;
• Define and manage the external and internal interfaces
o between different Sub-Systems,
o within sub systems interfaced with signaling scope
o with Subcontractors,
o with Products and R&D team,
• Performs surveys on site and produce constraints for installation of equipment
o Be accountable for delivering the scheme plan : this drawing summarizes the Signalling solution, and the associated layout of the equipment along the track.
o Be accountable for performing surveys on site and produce constraints for installation of equipment
• Manage the project solution, meaning the customization and parameterization of the generic solution to meet Quality, Cost, Delivery and Performance (QCDP) commitments:
o Build and analyze, together with the System Engineer or the Technical Advisor, the project requirements database and allocate requirements to R&D team, Project Engineering team and Industrialization team;
o Act as a chairman of Project Change Control Board (CCB) for the Project (to validate variations);
o Organize the configuration management and the organization of transverse technical meetings for scope management : CCB, Configuration review, baselines definition
o Be responsible of the project design and application engineering activities;
o Be accountable for Engineering tasks, Quality, Costs of Engineering and Delivery time;
o Consolidate and provide BoM/BoQ
• Functionally lead the project engineering team:
o Allocate Task(s) across Project Engineering team and ensure engineering activities regular follow-up;
o Deploy the applicable engineering process, methods & tools on the project;
• PE is accountable for Project Delivery Sheet and verify that the relevant Project Safety Case is delivered in the planned time;
• Manage the interface with the project core team:
o Provide all technical documents to the project core team members for the industrialization, sourcing, installation, test and commissioning (production BoQ, architecture schematics, ...);
o Support actively the solution of the technical issues detected by different core team members;
• During project warranty, coordinate actions to support resolution of pending technical issues following the Project Warranty requirements;
• Support Project Quality Manager to consolidate the REX of the Project and the Reliability Growth in case of issues after the entering in commercial service;
• Support AE Technical Advisor / AE Engineering Department Head to define/perform knowledge capitalization.

2) Experience and Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (electronic, electric, computer science, telecommunication) or equivalent experience;
• IT skills: MS Office suite; Autocad; MS Project; Windows O.S. as user;
• Good experience in Projects execution and Engineering team management;
• Good knowledge in Engineering Design methods and tools (system design and/or system modelling; requirements management; project planning; BoM/BoQ management);
• Decision making ability and troubleshooting skills;
• Language skills:
o Italian mother tongue (or equivalent)
o English knowledge: B2 or equivalent
o Others : (French, Spanish, German……)