Senior Planning Lead: Master Schedule & Critical Path

Hitachi; Ballerup; Hybrid; DKK 673,000 - 897,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

pension

6 weeks of holidays

canteen

Job summary

Hitachi Rail is seeking a Planning Manager in Denmark to support cross-project coordination and maintain the integrated master schedule. You will manage milestones, critical paths, and look ahead plans while coordinating with engineering, procurement, and risk teams.

You will optimise schedules, drive recovery actions, and ensure governance compliance through data-driven decision making in a dynamic, hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Primavera P6 or Oracle Primavera Cloud and critical-path methodology.
• Experience with railway access constraints, engineering/procurement integration and commissioning planning.
• Ability to communicate schedule risk to both technical teams and executives.
• Resilience and resistance to stress during schedule recovery, claims analysis and milestone pressure.
• Analytical rigour, persistence and constructive challenge.
• More than 5 years on complex infrastructure planning.
• Strong interface with risk and change processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the integrated master schedule, critical path, milestone logic, progress measurement rules and schedule basis documents.
• Collect progress from work packages and suppliers, challenge forecast optimism and convert slippage into recovery options.
• Integrate customer review periods, site access windows, procurement lead times, FAT/SAT activities, commissioning windows and handover dependencies.
• Provide schedule impact analysis for variations, claims, access constraints, design changes and supplier delays.
• Report float consumption, critical risks, lookahead constraints and recovery-plan effectiveness to Governance forums.
• Apply the Hitachi Code of Conduct in role‑specific decisions, including ethical escalation, confidentiality, data protection, fair supplier/customer conduct and transparent records.
• Acceptance planning support.
• Owns integrated schedule and schedule updates within approved logic.
• Can drive re‑planning and propose mitigation.
• Escalates critical‑path or milestone threats.

Skills

Primavera P6

Railway planning

Schedule risk communication

Stress resilience

Analytical rigour

Infrastructure planning

Risk & change processes

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Hitachi Rail is seeking a Planning Manager in Denmark to support cross-project coordination and maintain the integrated master schedule. You will manage milestones, critical paths, and look ahead plans while coordinating with engineering, procurement, and risk teams.

You will optimise schedules, drive recovery actions, and ensure governance compliance through data-driven decision making in a dynamic, hybrid work setting.