Project Director (Rail)
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About the Role
Alstom is seeking a full-time Project Director in Riyadh to lead large-scale turnkey rail projects. The role is accountable for project execution, ensuring contractual commitments, financial performance, and customer satisfaction.
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Responsibilities
- Ensure accountability for project Quality, Cost, Delivery, and Planning (QCDP) performance, while optimizing the project’s financial performance, including margin and cash.
- Define and implement project governance strategies in line with contract requirements, including Project Management Plan (PMP) elaboration and allocation of objectives to subsystems.
- Manage project resources effectively, including staffing the project core team, escalating resource gaps, and leading multi site/multi functional teams to achieve project objectives.
- Lead and coordinate project activities and stakeholders from transfer to close out, ensuring proper transfer from tender to project and alignment with customer satisfaction goals.
- Engage internal and external project stakeholders, fostering alignment towards project goals, and synchronizing internal partners while arbitrating when necessary.
- Oversee alignment with contractual requirements, managing variation orders, and addressing claims or litigations as needed.
- Proactively manage risks, savings, and opportunities to ensure successful project delivery.
- Monitor and report project progress and KPIs to senior management with transparency, ensuring adherence to business and critical project review processes.
- Build and manage strong relationships with customers and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment with contractual requirements and effective contract management.
- Maintain compliance with applicable rules, standards, and policies, including Alstom’s Code of Ethics & Compliance, EHS, Railway Safety, and Quality standards.
Requirements
- Proven project management expertise in large scale, high criticality turnkey projects
- Experience in rail or similar complex infrastructure projects
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary and multi site teams
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Company Overview
- Alstom offers the broadest portfolio in the industry, from high speed trains to digital mobility.
- Over 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide.
Your future role
- Take on a new challenge and apply your project management expertise in a cutting edge and highly strategic environment.
- As Project Director, you will be accountable for the successful execution of large scale, high criticality turnkey projects.
- You will lead multidisciplinary and multi site teams while driving project governance, financial performance, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence throughout the project lifecycle.
- You will report to senior project leadership and play a key role in ensuring safe, profitable, and on time project delivery.
We’ll look to you for
- Ensuring accountability for project Quality, Cost, Delivery, and Planning (QCDP) performance, while optimizing the project’s financial performance, including margin and cash.
- Defining and implementing project governance strategies in line with contract requirements, including Project Management Plan (PMP) elaboration and allocation of objectives to subsystems.
- Managing project resources effectively, including staffing the project core team, escalating resource gaps, and leading multi site/multi functional teams to achieve project objectives.
- Leading and coordinating project activities and stakeholders from transfer to close out, ensuring proper transfer from tender to project and alignment with customer satisfaction goals.
- Engaging internal and external project stakeholders, fostering alignment towards project goals, and synchronizing internal partners while arbitrating when necessary.
- Overseeing alignment with contractual requirements, managing variation orders, and addressing claims or litigations as needed.
- Proactively managing risks, savings, and opportunities to ensure successful project delivery.
- Monitoring and reporting project progress and KPIs to senior management with transparency, ensuring adherence to business and critical project review processes.
- Building and managing strong relationships with customers and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment with contractual requirements and effective contract management.
- Maintaining compliance with applicable rules, standards, and policies, including Alstom’s Code of Ethics & Compliance, EHS, Railway Safety, and Quality standards.
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.
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