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2 GEO Programmes Schedulers
2014-07-07 12:43:23| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Sercos space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies. With over 1500 staff in the space business covering a wide spectrum of experience and skills, we convey best practice, expertise and innovation in our business. All members of our recruitment team have extensive space experience, so have the insight necessary to support you through the application process. For our activities in EUMETSAT, we are currently looking for a GEO Programmes Scheduler. The key person will be integrated within the PRS Division into the Project Planning and Control PPC Team for GEO Programmes. The general task of the key persons will be to assist the PRS PPC Team in the implementation and maintenance of the GEO Programmes schedules and related scheduling and reporting processes. Tasks The detailed tasks of the key person will include as a minimum Establishing, monitoring and controlling the GEO Programmes Schedules, based on inputs from the programme technical teams i.e. System, Ground Segment, Space Segment, including activities, inputs outputs. The tasks may extend to include planning and monitoring of the associated resources Elaborating and maintaining multilayered programme schedules, based on first level schedule used for management coordination and reporting, level two schedules indicating the main programme elements activities and interdependencies, level three schedules used by engineering teams to detail their own work. Level one and Level two schedules will cover the complete programme and system life cycle and allow analysis of critical paths and margins Monitoring and controlling programme schedules, including maintenance of and controlled changes to the schedule baseline in view of progress made and scope changes agreed Generating and analysing programme performance indicators, including schedule performance indicators, milestone trend charts Generating periodic scheduling status reports, including trend analysis of scheduling performance indicators Preparing and contributing to regular programme meetings on schedule management, monitoring and control Assisting programme team leaders in establishing, monitoring and controlling individual plans and schedules as well as related programme resources Liaising as relevant with the corresponding Planning Officer in the Operations Department to ensure coordination of scheduling activities involving that Department and the Programme Development Department Contributing to the continuous improvement of PRS PPC working practices and procedures applicable to GEO Programmes, including related guidelines, checklists, templates and indicators, in line with the EUMETSAT Directory of Instructions DI and the EUMETSAT Management System EMS and the Programme Management Plans. Qualifications and Requirements The Key Persons shall have An University degree or equivalent, preferably in a management or engineering discipline At least 3 years proven handson experience in project planning, scheduling, monitoring and control Extensive handson experience in schedule preparation, monitoring and control, for complexlarge system programmes as well as in planning and monitoring the allocated resources, including conflict resolution Expert level usage of Microsoft Project or similar project schedulingplanning and management tools Extensive handson experience in using the Microsoft Office Suite and in particular Word and Excel. The Key Persons shall be fluent in English. Knowledge of French would be considered as an asset. Direct experience of scheduling for space segment programmes andor ground segment development and operations will be considered as an advantage. The Key Persons are expected to collect inputs from the various programmeproject team members, and summarise the gathered information for the management. For this purpose, they shall possess good interpersonal and communication skills to be able to interface efficiently with both the management and technical levels of the tasks. They shall also conduct all activities in an orderly and disciplined manner and they shall be able to work calmly and correctly under stress. Finally, the Key Persons shall have the ability to draft concise management reports and executive level presentations in English and the capability and experience to fulfil the assigned support tasks with a minimum of supervision. Application procedure Important All applicants must hold a current valid work permit for Germany or be EU nationals. If you are interested in this vacancy, and think you have the skills and experience required, please apply by either clicking on, or copying into your browser, the URL below. httpswww.amris.comsercorequirementdisplay.php?refSearchrequirementid54279 If you have any question regarding this position please email space.careersserco.com Position GEO Programmes Scheduler G014155EUM Reference G014155EUM Application closing date 03.09.2014 Start date Q4
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