Project Quality Safety Manager; PrQSM) Gautrain RSC & ALM

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Date: 12 Oct 2026

Company: Alstom

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, more than 80 000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Head of Quality

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The successful candidates will be responsible for the following:

Represents Quality in the project team, driving for customer satisfaction through the project’s Safety, Quality assurance by coordinating all quality and safety activities starting at tender stage and throughout the project until contract closure (SQCDP)

• Be the independent voice of the customer in the project organization.
• Act as interface with the Customer quality and safety teams
• Attends to CSS interview (Customer Satisfaction Surveys) with Customer Director and PM , supports & monitors action plan

• Establish, document, implement, maintain, and continuously improve the Project Quality Management Plan (PQMP) and ensure its proper application during contract execution in accordance with contract requirements, and Alstom processes.
• Contribute with structured techniques (e.g., FMEA) to the criticality assessment of Alstom’s solutions (system and sub-systems) and services to ensure the right level of safety and quality assurance as well as inspection activities for all identified CTQ (Critical to Quality).
• Guide project teams in understanding Quality contributions to the project.
• Be the interface in the Project Team for all Project Quality aspects (Engineering (EQ), Industrial (IQ) and Supplier (SQ))
• Manage, coordinate, and synchronize the community of all quality métiers supporting the project execution (system and sub-systems, PUs)
• Ensure project core team awareness of project quality plan and its deliverables, regularly reporting on progress and support achieving the required level on quality competencies.
• Support project audits, reviews and approval of supplier quality systems and audits compliance (upon customer request)

• Support the project team and the PM to prepare DFQ gate reviews & follow up related action plans.
• Report quality and safety alerts and manage Non-conformities and Safety issues.
• Ensure quality of the technical modifications (Change Requests CR) made during the project ensuring compliance to the design change process and quality of implementation of the technical modifications and analyze financial implications (Cost of Non-Quality CoNQ)
• Ensure that safety assessment is correctly implemented (i.e.: safety review) and prepare safety authorization.
• Control project processes and deliverables compliance through inspection and audits - to authorize presentation/ delivery to customer.
• Ensure that Return of Experience (REX) of all functions has been considered in the risks & opportunities and closely monitor to prevent occurrence.
• Owning the Supplier Part List (SPL), and ensure the list is properly created for the full scope of the project across all contributing sites.
• Ensure with SQ Team and/or Procurement a good synchronization and follow-up of GO Production and FAI (First Article Inspection) activities, relative to the SPL, with special attention in case of supplier change/localization initiatives.
• Collaborate with IQ, Industrial, SQ, EQ and Engineering to ensure a customer inspection acceptance criteria booklet is established and agreed with the customer.
• Support customer inspections at Alstom, supplier, and customer sites (upon request)
• Ensure the train/ product history book is prepared, updated, and handed over to the customer for each train/ product.
• Support the Project Manager / Director (PM/PD) & Customer Director (CD) with the customer satisfaction survey, its analysis and associated action plan.
• Ensure and improve the tender quality if assigned to support tender phase.
• In the case of Transfer of Technology (ToT), act as a sparring partner to the PrTTM and, organize and prepare all quality activities/documentation needed in the frame of the transfer.

• Facilitate problem solving during project execution phase to ensure timely…