Project Director - Rolling Stock (Rail)

Your future role

You'll lead the Project Core Team to ensure the successful delivery of assigned tasks, meeting schedules, budgets, and quality standards. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (Project Management, Engineering, Operations, and Customer Relations), oversee project execution through effective governance and risk management, and ensure Alstom's legal and contractual rights are protected, and much more.

• Serving as the primary Customer Interface throughout the project lifecycle
• Overseeing Project Risk, Opportunity, and Improvement Management
• Leading Project Launch, Change Management, and Contractual Obligation Management
• Allocating and monitoring project budgets to ensure financial performance
• Preparing and delivering internal project reports, including status updates and financial performance insights
• Reviewing project progress and providing strategic directions to Project Core Team members
• Identifying and initiating actions to enhance team effectiveness, including applying team effectiveness tools
• Delegating work packages and special tasks to optimize the overall project
• Ensuring Alstom's legal and contractual rights are protected while seeking and proposing additional opportunities to the Customer Director/Platform.

All about you

• Degree in engineering
• Minimum 20 years of transportation-related experience
• Strong preference for rail industry experience; rolling-stock experience highly desirable
• Familiarity with U.S. transportation markets and customer expectations (U.S. rail market knowledge is preferred)
• Project management processes experience, including WBS, detailed project schedules, risk management, and change management
• Must be available and willing to travel domestically for project/site/customer visits (USA)
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills
• Resilience and adaptability in fast-paced, complex environments
• Leadership skills to guide and motivate diverse teams
• Ability to identify and propose customer-centric opportunities
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities

Things you’ll enjoy

• Progress towards becoming a key leader in complex project management within the rail industry, driving innovation and operational excellence
• Work with a diverse and experienced Project Core Team to ensure the successful delivery of rail projects
• Utilise our dynamic and inclusive working environment that fosters leadership, resilience, adaptability, and continuous learning
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
• Contribute to innovative projects
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, 401k)