Project Operations Manager

Your future role

• Take on a new challenge and apply your project management expertise in a dynamic and innovative field. Youll work alongside collaborative, detail-oriented, and driven teammates.
• You'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the operational success of train projects, delivering on Quality, Cost, Delivery, and Performance (QCDP) objectives. Day-to-day, youll work closely with teams across the business, including Industrial, Production, Technical, Supply Chain, Quality, and Sourcing departments, while also coordinating with external stakeholders like customers, partners, and suppliers. Youll lead the operational project team to align with contractual requirements, engage in problem-solving, and much more.
• Youll specifically take care of coordinating Alstom Participating Units and managing project logistics, but also supporting gate reviews and ensuring compliance with applicable standards.

We will

• Aligning the operational project team with contractual requirements and delivering QCDP commitments.
• Coordinating and animating the operational team of the project.
• Ensuring regular project team meetings, follow-ups on open items, and decision-making to optimize results.
• Engaging in problem-solving when technical and/or operational issues arise.
• Supporting Gate Review and Configuration and Change Management processes.
• Coordinating logistics and technical support with Participating Units.
• Providing efficient and relevant reporting to the Project Manager and Alstom Management.
• Supporting project reviews, including CPR/RPR, MPR, WPR, and Risks, Savings, and Opportunities reviews.
• Ensuring compliance with applicable rules, instructions, and standards, including Code of Ethics, EHS, Railway Safety, and Quality standards.

All about you

• Bachelor's degree in engineering
• Experience or understanding of business and industrial environments.
• Knowledge of team management and operational leadership (e.g., planning, cost, or industrial management).
• Familiarity with project management principles.
• A strong command of English, with excellent writing and communication skills.
• Customer-focused and results-driven mindset, with the ability to compromise and make decisions.
• Rigorous, well-organized, and skilled in conflict management and multitasking.
• Teamworking and interpersonal skills to foster collaboration.
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes and, ideally, the railway industry.