Project Manager

Location: Firenze, Italy

Thales people architect solutions that support 85 million mainline and suburban passenger journeys, worldwide, every day. Our Rail Signalling and Communication systems are used on metro lines across major cities, and 72,000 kms of route, 52,000 trains per day in 16 countries are controlled by our Traffic Management Systems. Together We deployed the first-ever nationwide ticketing system which processes over 50 million ticketing transactions in 100 cities daily.

The General Project Manager is the overall responsible for the Project and the Project results.

He/She manages a project relevant to a Communication and Control Systems of a Metro assuring the achievement of all and each objectives (technical, operationally, economical, Financially and business-wise) within the defined schedule and budget and with expected level quality and safety, leading and managing the execution and implementation of the projects vis-à-vis with the Customers(s) and in strict coordination with each “discipline” PM and the Company Functions.

He/she coordinates (and also manages when necessary) also the various Thales units involved in the project (Countries, BLs, other entities) in full respect of the Organization and policies assuring primarily the Thales overall interest.

He/she coordinates (and also manages when necessary) also the other Consortium partners involved in the project in full respect of the Consortium agreement in place.

He/she is responsible for all qualifying points and competences for the management of a complex project (in a very multi culturally and multidisciplinary environment), using adequately and opportunely processes, methodologies, best practices, techniques and tools of Project Management.

He/she is responsible for the Direction and overall coordination of project team, which team is directed and managed efficiently in full alignment with the Company Organization.

Ultimately, he/she is responsible to proper direct and manage the Business associated to such a project.

He is Responsible for the satisfactory completion of Contract with particular reference to quality, HSE, timescale, cost, resources and Employer satisfaction for ensuring successful implementation of the project and project objectives.

His main responsibilities are as follows:

- Manage the project to achieve the targets, Customer satisfaction and Employer satisfaction and profitability
- Responsible for correct managing the Project, ensuring the predefined results on time and within budget and with expected level of Quality.
- Unique and sole interface towards the Client.
- Ensures full compliance with Safety Requirements and full implementation of the Safety Plan throughout the project in close cooperation with the Safety Manager.
- Define and develop the Customer relationship strategy: understand the client environment, determine the client’s interfaces and identify client responsibilities.
- Identify all and each project stakeholder, understand their environment and their influences and/or expectation on the projects, and then define a plan for manage each of them in the project interest (according - wherever possible - to a win-win approach).
- Accountable for the project profitability, sales and costs.
- He/she plans and coordinates, interfacing with the team members and the company functions, activities and resources of the project for the fulfillment of the project objectives (milestones contract).
- He/she manages and ensures customer satisfaction (quality and time) and pursues continuous improvement.
- He/she manages the contractual terms of the project.
- He/she organizes and plans the project with appropriate management tools (i.e. Primavera).
- He/she supervises and controls the production / product integration of project-related systems, which includes the entire supply chain of the specific activities of the project and its products, interfacing with suppliers and engineering.
- He/she check the progress of the project activities, in reference to the planned timetable.
- He/she monthly monitor the profit of the project and identify and implement (and/or assure the implementation) of the necessary action plans to maximize the profit.
- He/she supervises and monitors and through - the assigned PMs - coordinates and the validation and verification of the system both in the factory and on-site, in order to get the customer validation, and commissioning of the plant.
- He/she supervises, coordinates and supports the System Engineer and Customer Service during the commissioning phases, maintenance and warranty. He/she is supported by the Project Design Authority who report at project level to GPM.
- Support the preparation and validate the project Statement of Work (baseline): confirm the scope, contractual issues and validate risk assumptions.
- Establishes the project structure including the project management organization and project team organization.
- Set-up the project team and assig