Technical Project Manager / Delivery Team

Job position:

Technical Project Manager (Must have Railway experience)

Job description:

Lead as Design Authority for customer projects in charge of technical coordination, be the single point of contact for customers regarding technical topics and be accountable for quality/cost/delivery of Project Engineering activities​.

Responsibilities:

• Project Management of technical tasks: FiC engineering, installation design, safety and certification at vehicle level, delivery of technical customer documentation, …​
• Follow close installation design with integrators to ensure the solution is fully compliant with technical requirements and technical constraints​.
• Make the bridge with the Integration and development team to ensure products are compliant to customer needs / operational constraints and make sure product constraints are exported to customers. ​
• Participate actively in pre-sales to provide technical input for new potential projects and review technical solutions with customers to ensure solutions are workable and aligned with product strategy. ​
• Contribute to reviews with key stakeholders (NSA, ERA, Debo, NoBo, ISA, AsBo, ...)​
• Animate project technical reviews on weekly basis with relevant colleagues (safety, certification, operations, …)​
• Close follow up costs and provide reforecast on monthly basis​.
• Ensure on time delivery of project technical documentation required for customer projects​.
• You arbitrate priorities on the programs, balancing technical, costs, and project constraints.

Ideally, you are headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, but will travel according to the projects/program needs.

Profile

• You have a master’s degree in engineering, ideally complemented with a Business Administration degree, with relevant engineering experience in the Railways Domain. Or you can show equivalent successful experience acquired in the railway industry.
• You can demonstrate successful experience as Program/project manager on one or more projects/programs, as responsible or reporting to the responsible, from program inception to maintenance, including the authorizations activities, of at least.
• Whether one project/program of installation of an ETCS board, in Europe,
• Or one project/program of sub-system product development, being ETCS and/or Class B compliant.
• You can ideally demonstrate successful participation in the integration of Class B system(s) boards.
• You are familiar with the applicable norms (including the CENELEC EN50126 and EN50129, ISO9001) and authorities for certifications and authorizations of vehicles in Europe (NoBo, DeBo, ISA, AsBo, ERA)
• You enjoy going “hands on” when needed.
• You inspire confidence and can adapt to changing situations.
• You build great teams, where people can thrive. You walk the talk. You revere competence, whatever the task considered may be, and reward it correspondingly.
• You admit that you can be wrong when a team member has a better idea.
• You have outstanding communications and negotiations skills.
• You know how to turn a risk into an opportunity.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of French/German is a major plus. Knowledge of any other European language is a plus.