Schedule and Risk Management Support Officer 25040

As a part of our Project Management Support Service at the ESA you will have the following responsibilities:

• Coordinate project schedule and risk support ensuring common approaches are followed; common tools are used where possible; improvements are suggested and the service operates as independently as possible under the service work package manager and guidance of the Work Package Technical Responsible as required.
• Provide support to project teams in schedule control and periodic monitoring of its industrial consortia against the approved baseline schedule.
• Perform analysis of incoming schedules from industrial consortia by means of an agreed set of schedule KPIs and preparing performance deviation reports.
• Perform complex schedule analysis including metrics on quality critical path analysis float summary and assess the schedule performance at the required level.
• Provide expert schedule and risk support inputs evaluations and recommendations to project teams during major procurement activities (e.g. CCBs) programmatic reviews (e.g. IPREV) and technical reviews (e.g. PDR CDR).
• Provide expert input to project teams for the definition and update of project Schedule and Risk Management Plans.
• Setup and configure schedule and risk tools and in close cooperation with project control and each project core team.
• Support and assist project teams in their schedule and risk management processes.
• Support the book captain for schedule management at project level ensuring configuration control is maintained on baseline and working schedules SW files and documentation.
• Coordinate and support schedule/risk meetings with the ESA project teams (e.g. review schedule from industry and suggest a list of topics to be discussed by ESA in the status meetings with industry)
• Determine the criticality of schedule activities on CSC projects evaluate and suggest alternatives for schedule improvement recovery and acceleration to the technical teams for discussion and/or decision. Run simulations and whatif scenarios in support of management and technical teams decision process.
• Set up and maintain trend charts templates for reporting progress in line with agency best practices.
• Set up and maintain schedule performance indicators and quality metrics for project schedules.
• Prepare periodic quarterly and adhoc reports documenting schedule performance status and analysis and communicate on the content to the project team.
• Support to project team in understanding the status of the planning in their work domain and issue recommendations for improvement.
• Proactively track and verify the consistency between the schedules of the Industrial Consortia interfacing proactively with industrial teams as necessary to get the uptodate information. Identify potential problem areas and propose relevant mitigation actions.
• Provide expert support to the ESA Project Manager project controller and project team in the risk management process including suggestions for schedule recovery or acceleration definition of mitigation plans and followup of actions.
• Perform project or mission closeout schedule related activities if required.
• Assist CSC Project Control in the design and implementation of new schedule and risk control techniques state of the art tools and procedures and potential AI applications.
• Provide expert advice to PMSO Office on the use or introduction of new schedule and risk management IT tools reporting and dashboards and coordinate associated development and testing activities.
• Support CSC Business Control and Programme Management Support Office for the QMS audit exercise on Schedule and Risk Management.
• Proactively contribute to the development maintenance and update of schedule and risk standards practices and processes within Agencys programs
• Proactively contribute to the Agencys activities in capturing knowledge and elaborating best practices documentation in schedule and risk control.
• If required support the CSC project teams in working groups on the topic of schedule engineering or risk management.
• Elaborate training materials and deliver the trainings to the ESA teams
• Support queries and issues on the tools used for schedule and risk management

Qualifications :

You will have at least the following qualifications and relevant experience:

• Masters degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline (STEM Project Management or Business Administration) preferentially with an affinity to Space.
• Strong background in project scheduling and risk management in largescale engineering projects.
• Experience in standard scheduling methodologies (e.g. Critical Path Method (CPM) PERT Monte Carlo simulations).
• Knowledge of ESA project lifecycle processes and best practices.
• Ability to propose efficiency improvements in scheduling and risk processes.
• Handson experience with schedule control and variance analysis.
• Experience in working with industry consortia schedules monitoring progress and identifying deviations.
• Proficiency in schedule Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) deviation reports and variance analysis.
• Fluency in English read written and spoking is mandatory including the ability to write formal technical documents.

Additional Information :

This job is located in Harwell United Kingdom 

If you think you have what it takes for this job please send your CV together with a letter of motivation (both in English and in Word or PDF) to Viktoria Panicharova by clicking on the button Apply for this job quoting job NLHP25040 asap.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime