Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

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, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars. Could you be the full-time Trouble Shooter Senior Engineer in Cairo we re looking for?

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your technical troubleshooting and leadership expertise in a cutting-edge field. You ll work alongside a dedicated and highly skilled team of professionals. You'll play a key role in ensuring the availability, reliability, and safety of our rolling stock systems. Day-to-day, you ll work closely with teams across the business (Operations, Engineering, Warranty, and OEM teams), lead troubleshooting efforts**, and much more. You ll specifically take care of failure investigations and preventive maintenance activities, but also drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational performance and customer satisfaction.

We ll look to you for:

• Leading troubleshooting and failure investigation activities for rolling stock systems to ensure fleet availability, reliability, and operational safety.
• Managing engineers and technicians within the troubleshooting team to optimize resources and maintain high team performance.
• Performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and supporting complex technical investigations to identify recurring failures and implement effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Reviewing and analyzing failure data, technical reports, and fleet performance indicators to improve system reliability and reduce service disruptions.
• Coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely resolution of technical issues and implementation of improvement actions.
• Supervising preventive and corrective maintenance activities to ensure compliance with approved procedures, quality standards, and EHS requirements.
• Responding to critical failures and providing immediate technical solutions to minimize service disruptions.
• Developing and mentoring junior engineers and technicians to enhance technical competencies and build a high-performing team.
• Ensuring proper documentation of failures, interventions, and configuration changes to support continuous improvement initiatives.

Desired Candidate Profile

All about you

We value passion and attitude over experience. That s why we don t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

• Bachelor s degree in electrical or mechatronics engineering (mandatory).
• Minimum 8 years of experience in the railway industry, with strong exposure to rolling stock maintenance and troubleshooting activities (mandatory).
• Proven experience in troubleshooting, failure investigation, and corrective maintenance of rolling stock systems (mandatory).
• Experience in testing, coupling, and commissioning activities of rolling stock systems, with participation in at least one railway project from commissioning to operational handover (mandatory).
• Strong knowledge of rolling stock subsystems, including propulsion, braking, HVAC, TCMS, doors, auxiliary power systems, and communication systems.
• Excellent troubleshooting and failure analysis capabilities, including the ability to perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with experience managing multidisciplinary teams.
• High level of professionalism, accountability, and teamwork.
• High level of English language proficiency (desirable).
• Familiarity with railway safety and product liability (desirable).
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and make sound technical decisions.
• Adaptability to new work conditions and tools, with a proactive and results-oriented mindset.