Senior Project Planning Manager

Req ID:460436 

Leading societies to a low carbon future, Alstom develops and markets mobility solutions that provide the sustainable foundations for the future of transportation. Our product portfolio ranges from high-speed trains, metros, monorail, and trams to integrated systems, customised services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility solutions. Joining us means joining a caring, responsible, and innovative company where more than 70,000 people lead the way to greener and smarter mobility, worldwide

Purpose of Position:

• Develop and update schedules for projects that reach up to a medium level of criticality.
• Evaluate and effectively communicate the time related project information in various formats
• Advise the project team on the ways to reach On Time Delivery (OTD) performance
• Advise the team on the time related contractual disputes
• Influence development and alignment of schedules of project stakeholders
• Develop and manage project scheduling documentation
• Support other project planners

Main Responsibilities:

For all:

• Apply the company's time management processes
• Promote the time management practices and culture in the project team
• Capture and analyse the return of experience (REX) from its project

In tender:

• Analyse tender documentation to understand schedule management requirements, including schedule structure, reporting constraints, and contractual requirements.
• Set a timeline for tender preparation and ensure its adherence until the tender submission.
• Coordinate with internal  and external stakeholders  to integrate inputs and define project schedule interfaces.
• Contribute to formulating the project execution strategy.
• Develop the tender schedule based on contract requirements, subsystem commitments,  gap analysis,  and the tender execution strategy.
• Identify the project schedule's critical path and risks, suggesting optimization and mitigation actions.
• Highlight differences between the intial assumptions and the final tender schedule.
• Draft the tender schedule narrative.
• Ensure on-time delivery of schedule-related deliverables.
• Present scheduling information during tender gate reviews.

Performance measurements in tenders:

• On-time delivery of tender deliverables,
• On time delivery of schedule analysis for decisions by the Tender Team: critical paths for main milestones, planning risks and mitigation actions
• Develop the tender schedule in line with defined quality metrics

In contract or program execution:

• Develop quality schedules in accordance with the company's procedures, contractual requirements, and stakeholder inputs.
• Optimize schedules considering multi