Alstom
Chief Engineer - Performance
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Job Title: Chief Engineer - Performance Company: Alstom
Location: Derby (on-site)
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: Circa £65,000 per annum, DOE (dependent on experience), plus benefits
Closing Date: 06/07/2026
About Alstom
At Alstom, we shape the future of transport networks, bringing mobility choices that connect people and reduce carbon. Our portfolio spans high-speed trains, metros, monorails, trams, and digital mobility solutions. With 80,000 colleagues globally, we’re driving sustainability and innovation in rail, signposting smarter transportation for smarter cities.
About the Role
The Chief Engineer - Performance ensures that train performance aligns with customer, operational, and regulatory requirements, while optimising Quality, Cost, and Delivery (QCD) objectives. You’ll be the single point of accountability for end-to-end train-level performance, acting as the principal technical interface with customers. Your responsibility spans the entire project lifecycle—from definition to revenue service—ensuring seamless integration, validation, and sustained operability.
Your Responsibilities
You’ll take the lead in:
- Technical Interfacing: Acting as the primary technical liaison for the customer on train- and system-level performance matters.
- System & Integration Leadership: Overseing train-level system development, integration, and validation, including:
- Aligning architectural, functional behaviour, and performance targets.
- Ensuring alignment between customer/operator/regulatory requirements and operational needs.
- Requisite Management: Leading the collection, analysis, and prioritisation of stakeholder requirements to ensure they are coherent, achievable, and measurable.
- Requirement Ownership: Maintaining a robust, compliant set of train-level requirements and specifications in line with Alstom standards.
- Functional Analysis & Decomposition: Collaborating with subsystem engineers, suppliers, and central functions to break down performance demands at both system and subsystem levels.
- Performance Targets: Driving technical alignment across systems to meet agreed performance targets throughout the project lifecycle.
- Verification & Validation: Leading system-level tests to certify compliance with train performance requirements.
- Operational Resolution: During revenue service, resolving complex performance and reliability issues, including:
- Coordinating investigations, corrective actions, and validation to close gaps in line with project strategies.
- Cybersecurity & Compliance: Embedding, maintaining, and demonstrating cybersecurity requirements for train systems.
- Knowledge Retention: Feeding operational insights and lessons learned into future project standards and performance strategies.
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What You’ll Bring
You won’t need to check every box—but these strengths and passion are what we value:
Essential Skills & Experience
- Industry Expertise: Deep knowledge of railway systems (e.g. trains, metros, commuter services), products, projects, and engineering processes, with a focus on train performance and operational feasibility.
- Stakeholder Fluency: Experience leading large-scale technical projects across cross-functional teams, prioritising system-level outcomes over technical silos.
- Balanced Thinking: Ability to reconcile detailed technical needs with overall performance goals—operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and financial viability.
- Influence & Integrity: Capability to challenge assumptions, provide technical authority, and accept debate when pursuing optimal performance.
- Stakeholder Mastery: Proven skills in engaging engineering teams, suppliers, operators, and customers to drive shared objectives.
- Problem-Solving Mindset: Strong analytical aptitude to dissect complex problems and make critical decisions under pressure.
- Travel Flexibility: Willingness to travel as necessary to support project timelines and operational activities.
Desirable Complements
- Broad railway project experience (e.g. metro/train rolling stock development).
- Foundational grasp of operational constraints as a determining factor in design decisions.
- Practical experience using requirements tools like DOORS.
- Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and SysML for technical documentation.
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Why Join the Journey?
Alstom isn’t just a career—it’s a lifelong adventure. You’ll thrive in a dynamic environment where challenges evolve with the industry, and growth is effortless:
- Purpose-Driven: Build transformative projects that redefine mobility for generations.
- Stability & Impact: Pursue your career trajectory with regular complex challenges, no stagnant routines.
- Inclusive Culture: Join a global team where collaboration and helpful feedback are inherent to success.
- Sustainability at the Core: Contribute to lower-carbon interventions and decarbonisation efforts.
- Your Growth, Our Investment:
- Flexible career pathways spanning technical roles, global markets, and leadership.
- Award-winning learning programmes to upskill continually.
- A reward structure that links performance and potential—with a competitive framework covering remuneration, medical, pension, life insurance, and parental benefits:
- 25 paid annual days + holiday buy/sell option based on operational needs.
- Complete transparency in flexible benefits tailored to your life (e.g. well-being stipends, commuter support).
- Up to 52-week paid maternity/adoption leave.
You don’t need a personal rail passion to excel here. Just a drive to make travel better—and us proud.
Our Commitment
Alstom is an equal opportunities employer. We seek to make every professional’s potential your own—ensuring an environment where creativity, respect, and bold thinking grow together. We compliant with diversity and disability guidelines:
- Disability Confident: Applicants meeting the competency core will have automatic interviews—and we accommodate flexible work when possible.
- Inclusive Policy: Selection decisions are based solely on your merit, without regard to race, gender, sexuality, disability, or background.
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