Req ID: 515133

Location: Derby

Appointment Basis: Permanent

Apply by: 13/05/2026

Salary: circa £52,000 DOE plus benefits

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, 86,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Your future role

The Sub System Planning Manager acts as a key support to the Project Manager, Chief of Development (CoD), and Chief of Operations, serving as a trusted right hand on all project related matters. The role is responsible for developing, maintaining, and coordinating project, development, and operations schedules, while applying established project scheduling processes to ensure effective delivery.

They actively promote strong time‑management practices within the project team, contribute to continuous improvement through return‑of‑experience (REX) activities, and share best practices, tools, and schedule templates. In addition, the role requires a solid awareness of industrial planning principles to align scheduling activities with broader operational and production considerations.

We’ll look to you for:

• Contribute to the Project Time Management Plan defined by the Senior Project Planning Manager
• Build the project schedule for their area based on internal standard Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), contractual targets and data provided by all stakeholders.
• Understand industrial planning routines when defining the schedule management plan and setup for earned value
• Contribute with the Finance Project Manager to Earned Value Management
• Participate to the validation of the project baseline
• Ensure the consistency of all the internal and external Stakeholders commitments for their area, and manages the schedules interfaces,
• Perform schedule analysis & trade-offs to close identified gaps or schedule issues of their area
• Organise and lead periodic project schedule sessions for his area
• 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
• Understand the risks linked to configuration changes, along with needed retrofits
• Provide support to development manager on all issues related to development schedule
• Ensure that configuration baselines are planned properly in the development schedule
• Understand the risks of development logic deviations, provide warning to CoD if any

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:

• Project management or industrial background is required for the role
• Knowledge of different scheduling tools is highly desirable
• Comfortable working with internal processes: Tenders, Projects, Engineering, Industrial, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Quality and their interfaces
• Project scheduler experience is a plus
• Basic overall knowledge of railway products, and good knowledge of the Sub-System
• Agility to juggle with schedules simulations, various scenarios, and changing project goals
• Good Communications and interpersonal skills, excellent team worker
• Conflict management and multi-tasking
• Be able to challenge sub-system team and highly initiative taking in proposing solutions
• Comfortable in an international and a 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.
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues.
• Contribute to innovative projects.
• Utilise our dynamic, inclusive, and safety-focused 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
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension)
• Up to 52 weeks full maternity and adoption pay.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday.
• A wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle.

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!

Equal opportunity statement:

Alstom is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.

As a 'Disability Confident' employer, we will interview all disabled job applicants who match the essential criteria of the job description or specification. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

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