Site Planning Director

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 full-time hybrid Site Planning Director in Pittsburgh, PA, US we’re looking for?

Your future role

"Take on a new challenge and apply your comprehensive project management and scheduling expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll work alongside innovative, collaborative, and dedicated teammates. You'll ensure the "On Time Delivery" of Customer contractual milestones for all Projects by destination in your area of responsibility. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (project management, development, production), promote continuous improvement culture to enhance site performances, and much more."

We’ll look to you for:

• Ensuring achievable and winning planning for tenders with main milestones and risks identified, with the support of the corresponding Product Line,

• Ensuring application of all planning processes, particularly execution of the strategic planning processes,

• Ensuring application of standard scheduling tools and accuracy of planning data,

• Preparing different scenarios for the coming 36 months according to commercial and industrial inputs considering long-term function workloads and internal and suppliers’ capacity,

• Setting up additional specific local instructions in line with the central planning processes,

• Ensuring planning coherency between the different functions in the area, and planning alignment with other areas and sites,

• Guaranteeing respect of contractual committed deliveries on time,

• Managing and animating the planners’ community in your area (competencies, adequation with workload)

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 or Business,

• Experience or understanding of project management execution in industrial/construction worlds,

• Knowledge of scheduling processes and tools, specifically Primavera 6,

• Familiarity with the railway industry or related construction project planning,

• Rigorous, structured, and capable of multi-tasking,

• Collaborative, accountable, transparent with a sense of anticipation,

• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills, with fluency in English,

• Comfortable 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. You’ll also:

• Work with cutting-edge scheduling processes and tools, including Primavera 6, to ensure on-time delivery of customer contractual milestones,

• Progress towards a role where your expertise in project management and planning in the industrial or construction sectors, especially within the railway industry, is highly valued and impactful,

• Utilise our dynamic and multicultural working environment",

• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues,

• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries

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.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is a lever to running a sustainable and successful business. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected.