Project Planning Manager (Turnkey)

About the role

Provide leadership and overall accountability for developing and maintaining the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link project schedules, enabling effective time management throughout delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, prepare, and monitor integrated project schedules from design through final delivery.
• Coordinate planning activities across all stakeholders and support clear communication between teams.
• Lead and coach subsystem project planners, aligning their outputs and priorities.
• Lead regular schedule reviews, challenge assumptions, and identify opportunities to improve time performance.
• Analyse critical paths, schedule risks, constraints, and resource loading; develop mitigation actions.
• Prepare regular status reports, forecasts, and planning updates.
• Use Primavera P6 for detailed scheduling, resource allocation, and progress tracking.
• Use TILOS to develop and optimise linear schedules that integrate time and distance.
• Maintain schedules and KPIs in Alstom’s internal planning system, OdyC.
• Support claims strategy and prepare schedule analyses for extension‑of‑time claims.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a relevant field.
• Five to seven years’ scheduling experience on large engineering projects, preferably in infrastructure or rail.
• Ability to interpret construction documentation and adapt schedules accordingly.
• Proven experience developing and monitoring schedules across all project phases.
• Strong analytical skills, including identifying critical paths, risks, and resource constraints.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder‑coordination skills.
• Fluency in English.
• Familiarity with the rail industry.

Required skills

• Primavera P6
• TILOS
• OdyC planning system
• Advanced Microsoft Excel
• Earned Value Management (EVM)

What we offer

• Long‑term career with varied work and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Opportunities to grow, develop new skills, and gain diverse experience.
• Award‑winning learning and development programmes.
• Competitive reward package with performance‑based recognition and comprehensive social coverage.
• Inclusive, multicultural work environment.