Maintenance Engineer; Mechanical) RB

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Date: 13 Oct 2026

Location: Durban, NL, ZA

Company: Alstom

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

POSITION IN THE ORGANISATION –
MAINTENANCE ENGINEER MECHANICAL (TSSSA) :
529113

This position is based at the Depot in Richards Bay
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POSITION IN THE ORGANISATION

HIERARCHICAL MANAGER

Maintenance Engineering Manager

FUNCTIONAL MANAGER

Operations Manager

INTERFACES: The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

PURPOSE AND MISSION OF THE JOB:

PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

• Plan and maintain equipment according EHS rules, RCM and according to manufacturer’s specifications.
• Manage sub-contractor on daily maintenance, investigate breakdowns and analyse the root cause.
• Minimize down time and make sure production is not affected by either planned or unplanned maintenance.
• Maintain a 95% availability on all equipment, plant and tools.

KEY NETWORK & LINKS :

• Support Functions, eg ;
  Supply-Chain, production, quality
• Maintenance subcontractors

MISSION & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• P lan, supervise, and monitor the execution of planned and unplanned maintenance activities (including calibrations and other interventions)
• Coordinate forecasts emerging as an output from the Maintenance Management System of customer.
• Ensure that maintenance schedules are detailed, documented and implemented correctly by Customer.
• Ensure minimum disruption of maintenance activities through effective planning, communication, and coordination with other stakeholders.
• Investigate breakdowns and interruptions through the application of root cause analysis and other techniques.
• Plan for maintenance consumables and spares, and ensure availability of spares through effective stock control
• Monitor and record Locomotive availability, utilization and other KPI’s (MTBF, MTTR etc)
• Ensure records such as status labels, certificates, reports,lifting device certificate, firefighting equipment, certificates of compliance are kept in a traceable manner
• Maintain meticulous records of all maintenance, calibration & inspection interventions.
• Ensure all maintenance activity complies with quality procedure and safety regulations
• Ensure that contractors are inducted, supervised, and disciplined to adhere to quality and safety requirements
• To establish together with the equipment maintenance contractors the planning of the maintenance activities
• To participate and be involved in APSYS actions (actions like TPM, work instructions for equipment preventive maintenance) to guarantee overall equipment availability and effectiveness
• To manage and follow up the optimum functioning of equipment installations maintenance team.
• To report the required data of equipment in conformity with the industrial needs : availability of equipment and follow-up of the linked indicators.
• To ensure the follow-up of all the equipment documentation (paper and informatics support)
• To undertake other duties as specified by the Service Engineering Manager
• To carry out such work in accordance with strict Health & Safety procedures as laid down by legislation and the Company Health & Safety policies.

MEASUREMENT

• Achievement of QCD Commitments and EHS
• Respect of HSE and Quality policies.
• Respect of OPEX budget on maintenance
• Saturation of main critical tools and equipment
• Respect of…