Project Planning Manager

Project Planning Manager

Date: 30 Oct 2025

Location: Hennigsdorf, DE

Company: 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, 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 fullt-time Project Planning Manager (f/m/d) in Hennigsdorf we’re looking for?

Your Future Role

2,100 colleagues from 46 countries, including 800 engineers, shape in Hennigsdorf 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 corporate functions play a key role in supporting and continuously improving the performance of our sites. You’ll report to Tina Roman and work alongside a dedicated and enthusiastic team.

We’ll look for you to :

• 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.
• Develop quality schedules in accordance with the company's procedures, contractual requirements, and stakeholder inputs.
• Optimize schedules considering multiple criteria such as on-time delivery, cash generation, penalty avoidance, and efficient utilization of available resources.
• Ensure validation the baseline schedule.
• Develop a Project Time Management Plan.
• Organize and lead regular project schedule review sessions, challenging stakeholders' assumptions about time performance.
• Align the commitments of internal and external stakeholders, manage schedule interfaces, and proactively address inconsistencies.
• Ensure on-time updates of both internal and external schedules, monitoring stakeholders' adherence to schedule quality standards.
• Identify critical paths and both actual and potential delays in complex, interlinked 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.
• Support the Contract Manager in protecting the company's rights in time-related disputes and perform delay delay analysis
• Provide support to teams on schedule-related issues.
• Mentor and support other planners.

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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:
• Engineering or Business degree
• Minimum of 5 year's experience in full time planning and scheduling role
• Industrial or construction background
• Detailed knowledge of scheduling theory and methods, such as EVM.
• Proficiency in one scheduling tool (OdyC, Primavera, etc.) and familiarity with an additional scheduling software tool (Kinaxis, MS Project, TILOS).
• Advanced skills in MS Excel or other data analysis tools
• Knowledge of time-related contractual obligations and principles of delay analysis.
• Basic comprehension of railway industry products and technologies.
• Curiosity, the drive to learn, and the readiness to share knowledge with others.
• Good written and verbal communication skills; a effective team player.
• Ability to challenge and guide teams and be…