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Virginie Noirot

Bid manager for Citadis trams

Company:  Alstom Transport
Present job: Bid manager for Citadis trams
Degree: Mechanical Engineer

My career at Alstom: 5 job opportunities already in 9 years

I didn’t have a precise career plan when I graduated from engineering school and in 2000, I responded to an Alstom Transport job opening to work in the La Rochelle research department, in France, on the cabin for the Barcelona tramway where I discovered a fascinating world…

After eighteen months, I was offered a position with responsibility for coordinating between Alstom Transport’s production site in Spain and La Rochelle which I accepted enthusiastically. At the end of 2002, I had the opportunity to join the Salzgitter centre in Germany to create the driving cabin for a tram-train. Early in 2004, I returned to La Rochelle where I supervised the tramway cabin design office and then the mechanical design office with nearly 40 colleagues. Early in 2007, I transferred to Valenciennes, still in France, to participate in setting up the tramways business before taking up my current position of international Tramway Tender Manager.

Alstom encourages young female engineers

Along with 57 of my Alstom Transport colleagues, I have also been a sponsor for the French association called “Elles bougent” (“Women on the move”) for two years. Created in 2005, this brings together universities, transport manufacturers and energy producers and aims to encourage high school and university female students to train for engineering and technical careers. This partnership has been extremely successful and large numbers of young women have been able to discover our profession and its possibilities for career development.

Working at Alstom - what do I think?

There are three words which sum up my career at Alstom: mobility, opportunities and openness.

17 August 2009