Turnkey Planning Manager

Turnkey Planning Manager

Date: 5 Feb 2026

Location: Riyadh, SA

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, more than 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 onsite Turnkey System Planning Manager in Riyadh, SA we’re looking for?

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your experience in Project Planning Management, Leadership, and Scheduling expertise in a Railway Turnkey Project. You’ll work alongside collaborative and forward-thinking teammates. You’ll play a pivotal role in leading, coordinating, and controlling all planning and scheduling activities for a multidisciplinary and complex railway turnkey project, ensuring seamless integration across subsystems such as Trackworks, Turnouts & Switches, Power Supply, Signalling, Telecoms, Platform Screen Doors, and more.

Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (engineering, procurement, and construction teams), develop and optimize the Integrated Project Master Schedule (IPMS), and conduct schedule risk analysis, scenario planning, and recovery planning, ensuring alignment with system integration and operational readiness, and much more.

We’ll look to you for:

• Minimum 8 years of experience working on large & complex Turnkey projects
• Building the project schedule for the Turnkey Project using internal standard Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), contractual targets, and data provided by all stakeholders.
• Preparing and managing detailed schedules for Trackworks, Turnouts, Third Rail, Power,
  Signalling
  , PSD,
  SCADA, Telecoms, System Migration, Integrations and Testing & Commissioning
  .
• Developing, maintaining, and optimizing the Integrated Project Master Schedule (IPMS) across all subsystems.
• Must have a delivery mindset to ensure coherent implementation of the planning across all project phases:
  Design, Engineering, Procurement, Installation, Construction, Testing, Commissioning, Integrations, Verification & Validation, Safety assurance, etc.
• Conducting schedule risk analysis, scenario planning, what-if simulations, and recovery planning.
• Ensuring alignment with system integration, milestone interfaces, and operational readiness.
• Tracking and monitoring the implementation of the planning and driving the monthly landing KPI with a clear link to the required activities for execution.
• Performing extension of time analysis and forensic planning.
• Managing claim-related activities and providing robust claim management support.
• Collaborating effectively with multidisciplinary project teams and stakeholders to ensure seamless project execution.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance project planning methodologies and tools.

Experience in working with Civil Works Joint Venture groups, Project Management Consultants (PMC), the Engineer and the Client showing collaborative understanding for various Stakeholder Management concepts.

All 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:

• Degree in Engineering, Project Management, or a related field.
• Experience or understanding of planning and scheduling multidisciplinary railway turnkey projects, including Trackworks, Turnouts, Power Supply, Signalling, Telecoms, and other rail systems.
• Advanced Knowledge of project scheduling tools (e.g., Primavera P6, MS Project) and techniques such as critical path method (CPM) and resource leveling.
• Familiarity with integrated project master schedules, work breakdown structures (WBS), and risk analysis methodologies.
• Strong communication skills to liaise with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders effectively.
• Proficiency in conducting schedule risk analysis, scenario planning, and recovery planning.
• Ability to manage and optimize complex…