Site Project Planning Manager 1

at  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 80000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.
In Hennigsdorf, 2,100 colleagues from 46 countries, including 800 engineers, shape the future of rail mobility. The locally developed, manufactured, and maintained product range includes high-speed, regional, and local trains, subways, as well as trams and light rail vehicles. Our product line Rolling Stock & Components offers products from the broadest portfolio in the rail industry. Our innovation focus is on green and smart solutions, including emission-free propulsion systems such as batteries and hydrogen.

IN CONTRACT OR PROGRAM EXECUTION:

• Develop quality schedules in accordance with the company’s procedures, contractual requirements, and stakeholder inputs, while applying personal judgment and experience.
• Optimize schedules considering multiple criteria such as on-time delivery, cash generation, penalty avoidance, and efficient utilization of available resources.
• Validate the partner’s input schedules and ensure external validation of the combined baseline schedule.
• Create a Project Time Management Plan and validate time-related documentation.
• Lead regular project schedule review sessions, challenging stakeholders’ assumptions about time performance and seeking solutions.
• Align the commitments of internal and external stakeholders, manage schedule interfaces, identify trade-offs, and proactively influence stakeholders to adopt approaches beneficial for the overall project.
• Ensure timely updates of both internal and external schedules while monitoring stakeholders’ adherence to schedule quality standards.
• Identify critical paths and both actual and potential delays in complex, interconnected schedules.
• Guide the project team in identifying and mitigating risks and in seizing opportunities related to on-time delivery.
• Lead the preparation of schedule and progress reports, illustrating progress with relevant KPIs and the Earned Value Methodology.
• Advise the Contract Manager in time-related disputes, perform delay analysis, and evaluate incoming delay-related claims.
• Educate project teams on schedule-related issues.
• Train and provide support to other planners.

YOUR FUTURE ROLE

Alstom has a permanent opening for Site Project Planning Manager based in Hennigsdorf (north-west of Berlin, just across the city border). Reporting to the Global Planning Director and to the Project Director, you will oversee the Planning activities for Projects and Tenders. This is a rare opportunity for an exciting planning leadership role

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:

• Engineering degree
• Project management and industrial background (+10 Years)
• Knowledge of different scheduling tools (P6, OdyC, MSProject)
• Knowledge of railway products, and good knowledge of the Sub-System
• Rigorous, structured and sense of anticipation
• English fluent, German a plus
• Good Communications and interpersonal skills
• Conflict management and multi-tasking
• Collaborative managemen