Lead Planning and Control Manager - Toronto, Canada - ALSTOM

ALSTOM

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Req ID:450056

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 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

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.

Objective

The Lead Planning and Control Manager will contribute to support the scheduling teams and provide and liaise with the Finance team for internal and external reporting.

Previous experience of managing planning teams in a multi-projects context and providing reporting is required.

Working in close collaboration with the Project Manager (PM), owner of time management topic in the project team, providing proper time management information to support decisions making to reach expected OTD (On Time Delivery) performance of the project (tender, contract, or program execution)
Responsible to develop and 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 proactively the schedule progress to various stakeholders (customer, core team, corporate)

Main Responsibilities:

Define and maintain the Project Time Management Plan based on inputs from all stakeholders and keep it updated
Animate and coordinate the project scheduling community
Build the project schedule based on internal standard WBS, contractual targets, and data provided by all stakeholders,
Contribute with the Finance Project Manager to Earned Value Management
Propose the project baseline, and ensure its acceptance (internally and by the Customer)
Ensure the consistency of all the internal and external Stakeholders commitments, and manages the schedules interfaces,
Perform schedule analysis & tradeoffs to close identified gaps or schedule issues
Organize and lead 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 all issues related to projects schedule
Promote time management practices awareness in the project team
Coach planning team in project planning practices
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 ontime 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 (Designbuild)
Is used to work with internal processes (Tenders, Projects, Engineering, Industrial, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Quality, and their interfaces)
Project scheduling processes
Worked with resource load schedule (material, manpower, etc.), Schedule of Values (SOV), Earned Value Management (EVM)

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