Chief of Development

1 settimana fa

Cuneo, Piemonte, Italia ALSTOM Tempo pieno
Overview

As Chief of Development at Alstom, you own end-to-end product development for train platforms, ensuring on-time delivery within budget and quality targets. You lead cross-functional teams across engineering, procurement, industrialization, and services, coordinating subsystem managers and design authority. You drive risk management, trade-offs, and compliance with contract requirements. You report progress, manage development planning and costs, and champion Operational Excellence to support scalable, safe, and innovative mobility solutions.

Responsabilità
  • Represent the technical authority to the customer on major topics (design approval, VO, major non-compliances)
  • Ensure compliance with contract technical requirements
  • Be responsible for Train level Development Work Packages (QCD)
  • Report product development progress
  • Escalate development issues to project level
  • Set and allocate technical and QCD objectives with project development team
  • Coordinate cross-functional activities and deliverables (Development Planning, Change Management, DFo, DFS)
  • Make key cross-functional or technical decisions and trade-offs
  • Represent design authority and ensure product liability and compliance with Alstom standards
  • Manage technical risks and define mitigation plans
  • Interact with sites and métiers management to secure development needs and deliverables
  • Liaise with Platform Design Authority to align on new technical gaps versus tender hypotheses
  • Contribute to collect Project REX on product performances and evolution
Requisiti fondamentali
  • Extensive technical and Alstom platform knowledge
  • Engineer degree or equivalent
  • Desirable: for big projects (>100 000 hours) 5+ years in product development and management
  • Competencies in project management, product development, and leadership
  • Strong problem-solving and efficient decision-making in complex environments
  • Strong leadership and ability to federate cross-functional teams
  • Experience leading cross-functional activities with multiple stakeholders in a multicultural environment
  • Ability to drive Operational Excellence principles in development activities
  • leadership
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • decision-making
  • Platform product knowledge
  • Design Authority governance
  • QCD management