Senior Project Planner

ALSTOM Gruppe; Oslo; On-site; NOK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Alstom in Oslo is seeking a Senior Project Planner to lead the customer project scheduling and support on-time delivery across cross-functional teams.

You will develop and maintain accurate schedules, monitor progress with KPIs, and coordinate with Project Managers, Engineering, Installation, Quality and Safety to ensure milestones are met and risks forecasted, while guiding lookahead planning across functions.

Qualifications

• Engineering or Technical degree (or equivalent).
• Senior planning management experience with an industrial background.
• Railway, or railway signalling experience is an asset.
• Ability to work at both high-level and detailed levels of schedule data.
• Experience in Primavera P6.
• Effective communication with internal teams and external customers.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining accurate project schedules
• Efficiently managing planning deliverables
• Ensuring team members understand their schedule deliverables
• Building relationships and working with external customers
• Applying resource management across complex projects
• Implementing the Alstom Project Scheduling Processes
• Contributing to REX and improvement initiatives
• Developing and sharing best practices and ideas
• Providing schedule information into the Alstom regional business

Skills

Senior planning management

Primavera P6

Effective communication

Multicultural collaboration

Stakeholder management

Railway project experience

Education

Engineering or Technical degree (or equivalent)

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Senior Project Planner

Date: 20 Jul 2026

Location: Oslo, NO

Company: Alstom

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, more than 80 000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Could you be the full-time Senior Project Planner in Norway we’re looking for?

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your time management and project planning expertise in a new cutting‑edge field. You’ll work alongside dedicated and collaborative teammates.

You’ll ensure the execution of the customer project schedule, contributing significantly to our on‑time delivery performance. Day‑to‑day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (Project Managers, Engineering Team, Installation Team, Quality, Safety), organize project schedule sessions, and much more.

You’ll specifically take care of monitoring project progress through updates, leading performance follow‑ups with proper KPIs, but also capturing any external events that could impact timelines and providing forecasting and lookahead planning to meet the needs of your stakeholders.

• Developing and maintaining accurate project schedules
• Efficiently managing planning deliverables
• Ensuring team members understand their schedule deliverables
• Building relationships and working with our external customers
• Applying resource management across complex projects
• Implementing the Alstom Project Scheduling Processes
• Contributing to the return of experience (REX) and improvement initiatives
• Developing and sharing best practices and ideas
• Providing schedule information into the Alstom regional business

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:

• Engineering or Technical degree (or equivalent)
• Senior planning management experience with an industrial background
• Railway, or railway signalling, experience is an asset
• Ability to work at both high‑level and detailed levels of schedule data
• Experience in Primavera P6
• Effective communication skills with internal teams and external customers
• Ability to work in a multicultural project environment and manage multiple tasks with multiple stakeholders

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
• Work with new security standards for rail signalling
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
• Contribute to innovative projects
• Utilise our dynamic 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

Important to note

As a global business, we’re an equal‑opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.