Project Planning Manager

Role overview

Project Planning Manager at Alstom

Responsibilities

• You'll play a central role in driving project execution excellence by managing schedules, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring on-time delivery.
• You’ll also: - Enjoy stability, challenges, and a long-term career free from boring daily routines - Work with new security standards for rail signalling - Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues - Contribute to innovative projects - Utilise our inclusive and flexible working environment - Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries - Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning - Progress towards senior project planning or leadership roles - Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension) You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us.

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role: - Bachelor Degree in Engineering or Business - Experience or understanding of project management or industrial processes - Experience- 9-14 Years - Knowledge of scheduling tools and project scheduling processes - Familiarity with costing in similar industries - A Planning Certification (desirable) - Strong communication and interpersonal skills - Ability to manage conflicts and multitask effectively - Collaborative mindset and initiative-taking in proposing solutions - Comfortable working in an international and multi-cultural environment Things you’ll enjoy Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career.

Employment details

• Location: Saharanpur [UP] [IN]

Application details

• Your future role Take on a new challenge and apply your project management and scheduling expertise in a cutting-edge field.

About the employer

• At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people.

Additional role details

• 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 Project Planning Manager (PrPM) in Saharanpur we’re looking for?
• You’ll work alongside collaborative, adaptable, and proactive teammates.
• Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (Project Managers, Sub-System Managers, and Finance Managers), facilitate synchronization of internal stakeholders, and lead schedule analysis to support decision-making and mitigate risks.
• You’ll specifically take care of developing and maintaining project schedules for your area, but also contributing to continuous improvement through best practices and return of experience (REX) sharing.
• We’ll look to you for: - Acting as the right hand of the Project Manager/Chief of Development/Chief of Operations on all schedule-related matters - Applying the Project Scheduling Process and promoting time management practices across the team - Building and maintaining project schedules based on contractual targets and stakeholder inputs - Leading periodic schedule sessions and providing timely updates on progress - Identifying potential delays, analyzing critical paths, and proposing mitigation actions - Contributing to Earned Value Management in collaboration with Finance teams - Ensuring alignment across internal and external stakeholders - Providing input and support for industrial planning and configuration management - Delivering schedule analysis and reports to support project decisions All about you We value passion and attitude over experience.
• That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill.
• We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud.
• If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!
• You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us.
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