Project Planning Manager

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 Project Planning Manager in São Paulo we’re looking for?

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your time management and project planning expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll work alongside collaborative, innovative, and dynamic teammates.

You'll play a key role in ensuring on-time delivery (OTD) performance by developing and maintaining project schedules and providing critical time management insights to support decision-making. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (Project Managers, Senior Project Planning Managers, Sub-System Managers), facilitate synchronization among internal stakeholders, and much more.

You’ll specifically take care of developing and maintaining internal project schedules, but also issuing planning deliverables efficiently.

We’ll look to you for:

• Developing and maintaining the project schedule for your area

• Ensuring efficient issuance of planning deliverables

• Facilitating synchronization of internal stakeholders

• Analyzing schedule management requirements and monitoring tender preparation schedules

• Contributing to project baselines and ensuring stakeholder commitment

• Providing timely updates and reports on schedule situations

• Promoting time management practices and contributing to continuous improvement

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:

• Engineering or planning-related degree

• 7-10 years of experience as a Project Planning Manager, Project Development Planning Manager, or similar roles

• Project management and industrial background

• Experience in managing complex design-build projects

• Familiarity with planning tools (e.g., MS Project, Primavera, Planisware)

• Basic overall knowledge of railway products and good understanding of sub-systems

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to manage conflicts and multitask effectively

• Proactive problem-solving and solution-oriented mindset

• Comfortable working 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:

• Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines

• Work with new security standards for rail signalling

• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues

• Contribute to innovative projects

• Utilise our inclusive and flexible working environment

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

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

• Progress towards leadership or technical expert roles

• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension)

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.