Project Planner

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Date: 19 Feb 2026

Location: Toronto, ON, CA

Company: Alstom

Imagine playing a central role in reducing the carbon footprint of Canada’s busiest public transit system and doing so with a consistently ranked Top Employer with a global reach. As part of the ONxpress consortium, Alstom is proudly working to transform the collective mobility of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas (GTHA) through the On-Corridor Works project, and we are hiring for hundreds of roles.

The GO Expansion scope : new electric locomotives, fleet upgrades, train control systems, network electrification, signalling, telecommunications and digital systems, maintenance, and much more.

Alstom is seeking a Project Planner, to become a member of the Oncorr Project. This individual will contribute to support the team updating the schedule and providing and liaising with the Finance team for internal and external reporting.

Responsibilities

• Previous experience of managing planning teams in a multi-projects context and providing reporting is required.
• Responsible to maintain the project/program schedule using best practices such as but not limited to:
  Reflect the project execution strategy in the schedule, capture the entire scope of work, set reasonable activity durations, logically sequence and link all activities, keep date constraints to a minimum and never as a hard constraint, avoid dangling activities, check the critical path makes sense, assign resources to all activities, check the schedule contains reasonable float, verify the resource plan, run a schedule risk analysis, set schedule baseline.
• Manage efficiently planning deliverable issuance.
• Facilitate the synchronization and communication of internal stakeholders.
• Report pro-actively the schedule progress to various stakeholders(customer, core team, corporate).

Main Responsibilities

• Work the OnBoard Project Manager about the Earned Value Management and different KPI.
• Contribute the project baseline, and ensure its acceptance (internally and by the Customer).
• Ensure the consistency of all the internal and external Stakeholders commitments, and manage the schedules interface.
• Perform schedule analysis & trade-offs to close identified gaps or schedule issues.
• Organize periodic project schedule sessions.
• Provide a timely updated schedule situation highlighting the gap between the actual and the baseline.
• Focus on early identification of potential delays (critical paths) including the status on risks and margin related to schedule.
• Prepare schedule and progress reports for Customer or Lead Unit or Partners.
• Provide support to Project Core Team on potential issues related to projects schedule.
• Apply the Project Scheduling Process.
• Promote time management practices awareness in the project team.
• Contribute to the return of experience (REX) and improvements, share best practices, schedule templates.

Performance measurements in contract or program execution

• Baseline approved (internally and by the Customer).
• Regular and consistent scheduling updates, with potential delays analysis.
• Delivery on-time delivery of KPIs (OTD, Gate Reviews GO on time, sales, cash, …) and planning documents.
• Standard metrics measuring schedule robustness (PSI - Project Schedule Integrity).

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or in a related discipline

Experience

• 7-10 years’ experience as PrPM / SSM / Project Development Planning Manager / Reporting Manager
• Project Management and industrial background
• Experience in complex projects (Design-build)
• Is used to work with internal processes (Tenders, Projects, Engineering, Industrial, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Quality, and their interfaces)
• Worked with resource load schedule (material, manpower, etc.),Schedule of Values (SOV), Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Primavera P6 and MS-Project software skills are mandatory
• Advanced MS Office proficiency, particularly MS-Excel
• Desirable overall knowledge of railway products and systems
• Agility to juggle schedules (detailed execution and customer schedules) simulations and various scenarios, and changing project goals
• Forensic planning
• Rigorous, structured, and sense of…