Deputy Planning Manager / Planning Manager

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Date: 13 Jun 2024

Location: Cairo, EG

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, signaling 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 onsite Deputy Planning Manager / Planning Manager in Cairo, EG we’re looking for?

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your detailed and strategic planning expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll work alongside dedicated, collaborative, and skilled teammates. You'll be pivotal in developing comprehensive project schedules that integrate all aspects of engineering, procurement, and site activities, ensuring our projects meet quality, cost, and delivery objectives. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (including Engineering, Finance, and Project Management), continuously monitor project progress to identify and address critical paths, and much more.

We’ll look to you for:

Identifying critical paths and ensuring action plans are developed and implemented to maximize project quality, cost, and delivery objectives.

Providing accurate reporting on Work Package progress and coordinating all functional activity on the project to anticipate and resolve problems in a timely manner.

Organizing and leading periodic Project Schedule Sessions, highlighting the gap between the actual and the baseline.,

Maintaining the interface between Planning, Finance, and Project Management and ensuring that all project reporting is coordinated, robust, timely, and accurate.

Supporting the Planning Manager with business requests and auditing the programmes against the planning procedure/work instruction.

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 B.tech / BE (Engineering Graduate).

Knowledge of planning tools (Primavera, Microsoft Project, and TILOS).

Experience or understanding of project planning, scheduling, and monitoring in relevant field/EPC Projects.

Strong communication and diplomacy skills, and the ability to guide, influence, and convince others.

Self-starter who has the confidence and ability to develop solutions to problems with minimal supervision.

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. You’ll also:

Work with cutting-edge planning tools such as Primavera, Microsoft Project, and TILOS.

Progress towards optimizing project quality, cost, and delivery objectives.

Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning.

Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues.

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. 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!

Important to note

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.

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