We are seeking a Lead Project Planner, to become a member of the Project Core Team. This individual will contribute to support the scheduling teams and provide and liaise with the Finance team for internal and external reporting.
Responsibilities
- Previous experience of managing planning teams in a multi-projects context and providing reporting is required.
- Responsible to maintain the project/program schedule using best practices such as but not limited to: Reflect the project execution strategy in the schedule, capture the entire scope of work, set reasonable activity durations, logically sequence and link all activities, keep date constraints to a minimum and never as a hard constraint, avoid dangling activities, check the critical path makes sense, assign resources to all activities, check the schedule contains reasonable float, verify the resource plan, run a schedule risk analysis, set schedule baseline.
- Manage efficiently planning deliverable issuance.
- Facilitate the synchronization and communication of internal stakeholders.
- Report pro-actively the schedule progress to various stakeholders (customer, core team, corporate).
Main Responsibilities:
- Contribute with the Finance Project Manager to Earned Value Management.
- Contribute the project baseline, and ensure its acceptance (internally and by the Customer).
- Ensure the consistency of all the internal and external Stakeholders commitments, and manage the schedules interface.
- Perform schedule analysis & trade-offs to close identified gaps or schedule issues.
- Organize periodic project schedule sessions.
- Provide a timely updated schedule situation highlighting the gap between the actual and the baseline.
- Focus on early identification of potential delays (critical paths) including the status on risks and margin related to schedule.
- Prepare schedule and progress reports for Customer or Lead Unit or Partners.
- Provide support to Project Core Team on potential issues related to projects schedule.
- Apply the Project Scheduling Process.
- Promote time management practices awareness in the project team.
- Contribute to the return of experience (REX) and improvements, share best practices, schedule templates.
Performance measurements in contract or program execution:
- Baseline approved (internally and by the Customer).
- Regular and consistent scheduling updates, with potential delays analysis.
- Delivery on-time delivery of KPIs (OTD, Gate Reviews GO on time, sales, cash, …) and planning documents.
- Standard metrics measuring schedule robustness (PSI - Project Schedule Integrity).
Educational Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or in a related discipline
Experience:
- 7-10 years’ experience as PrPM / SSM / Project Development Planning Manager / Reporting Manager
- Project Management and industrial background
- Experience in complex projects (Design-build)
- Is used to work with internal processes (Tenders, Projects, Engineering, Industrial, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Quality, and their interfaces)
- Project scheduling processes
- Worked with resource load schedule (material, manpower, etc.), Schedule of Values (SOV), Earned Value Management (EVM)
Competencies & Skills:
- Primavera P6 and MS-Project software skills are mandatory
- Advanced MS Office proficiency, particularly MS-Excel
- Desirable overall knowledge of railway products and systems
- Agility to juggle schedules (detailed execution and customer schedules) simulations and various scenarios, and changing project goals
- Forensic planning
- Rigorous, structured, and sense of anticipation
- Good communication and interpersonal skills, resilience, and team working spirit
- Conflict management and multi-taking
- Collaborative management
- Be able to challenge the project team and highly proactive in proposing solutions
- Comfortable in an international and multi-cultural environment
- Strong problem solving and negotiation skills
- Ability to work independently, trustworthy, and self-motivated, self-starter
- Strict attention to detail and process-oriented
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong time management skills
