Senior Rail Planning & Schedule Lead

Hitachi Rail; Ballerup; Hybrid; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Pension

6 weeks holidays

Canteen

Job summary

Hitachi Rail is seeking a Planning Manager to oversee the integrated master schedule for complex infrastructure projects. The role requires coordinating cross-project activities, managing critical paths and ensuring alignment with governance models.

The successful candidate will master Primavera P6 or Oracle Primavera Cloud, analyze schedule risk, and liaise with PMO, engineering, procurement, and risk teams. A hybrid working pattern (40/60 home/office) is offered along with pension and holidays.

Qualifications

• 5+ years on complex infrastructure planning.
• Expertise in Primavera P6 or Oracle Primavera Cloud.
• Experience with railway access constraints, engineering/procurement integration and commissioning planning.
• Ability to communicate schedule risk to both technical teams and executives.
• 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.
• Owns integrated schedule and schedule updates within approved logic; drive re-planning and mitigation.

Skills

Primavera P6

Critical path

Schedule risk

Infrastructure planning

Stakeholder management

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Hitachi Rail is seeking a Planning Manager to oversee the integrated master schedule for complex infrastructure projects. The role requires coordinating cross-project activities, managing critical paths and ensuring alignment with governance models.

The successful candidate will master Primavera P6 or Oracle Primavera Cloud, analyze schedule risk, and liaise with PMO, engineering, procurement, and risk teams. A hybrid working pattern (40/60 home/office) is offered along with pension and holidays.