Project Scheduler and Risk Management Specialist

1 maand geleden

Noordwijk, Nederland Serco Voltijd € 53.000 - € 70.000
Serco has made significant contributions at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands, supporting a wide range of space missions and projects. Serco has provided essential engineering, technical, and management services, playing a key role in logistics and operational support for missions. Serco's expertise in spacecraft management, ground systems, and data processing has earned them recognition, including the 'Best in Domain' award from ESA. Their long-standing partnership with ESA reflects their commitment to excellence and innovation in the space sector.

One of the domains Serco is looking to grow is ‘Navigation’ and with this in mind, we are looking to hire a small team of project control, business control, and risk management specialists. 

For schedule control, the service requires planning and scheduling expertise to support the definition and maintenance of project schedules within the Navigation Directorate, including also trend chart generation and critical path analysis.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Manage and monitor project schedules, including critical path analysis and KPI reporting.
  • 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, and 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 Schedules and Risk Management Plans.
  • Set up and configure schedule and risk tools in close cooperation with project control and each project core team.
  • Support and assist project teams in their schedule or risk management process.
  • Determine the criticality of scheduled activities on NAV projects, evaluate, and suggest alternatives for schedule improvement, recovery, and acceleration to the technical teams for discussion and/or decision. Run simulations and what-if scenarios in support of management and technical teams’ decision process.
  • Set up and maintain trend charts, and 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 ad-hoc reports documenting schedule performance status and analysis and communicate 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 and CFI/CUs providers, if available, to identify potential problem areas and propose relevant mitigation actions.
  • Provide expert advice to the 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 NAV PMSO 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 the Agency’s programs.
  • Proactively contribute to the Agency’s activities in capturing knowledge and elaborating best practices documentation in schedule and risk control.

Candidate’s Profile:
  • Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline (Engineering or Business Administration) 
  • 4 years experience in project planning for aerospace projects.
  • Professional certifications in the management domain are a must (MS Project etc..)
  • Experience with: Microsoft Project Professional; Visio Professional; Office Timeline Microsoft 365 Office Software.
  • Experience with schedule narrative including schedule assumptions, critical path as well as substantiation of the schedule risk margin and basis documentation.
  • Experience with schedule simulations and planning scenarios.
  • Experience with schedule risk analysis, assumptions, and results.
  • Knowledge of Project Risk Management Processes and Principles.
  • Experience with the schedule peculiarities of spacecraft development is an asset.
  • Experience in multinational project environments, ideally with ESA or similar organisation.
  • Solid understanding and demonstrated experience in the space sector, space systems development, and operations.
  • Strong data analysis and reporting skills.
  • Must be a citizen of an ESA/EU member state.

What we offer:
  • Flexible working policy (hybrid working).
  • Comprehensive and competitive benefits plan.
  • Range of wellness activities and employee assistance programs.
  • Casual dress code.
  • Investment in people.
  • Bike scheme.
  • Serco aims to become a net-zero business by 2030.

Relocation:The Netherlands' central location in Europe makes it an ideal base for travel and business within the EU. Major cities are well-connected by road, rail, and air with Amsterdam Schiphol Airport one of Europe's busiest and most well-connected airports, facilitating easy international travel. Serco offers relocation support for all EU passport holders who are planning to relocate to the Netherlands and work for Serco B.V. DE&IDiversity, Equity & Inclusion at Serco is based on a culture where every voice is heard, and every employee feels valued. Working together as one team, we can enhance the experience of our people and teams, improve the value of our solutions to better serve the missions of our customers, and make an impact in our world.

About Serco:

Serco is a leading Space Services Provider with thousands of skilled resources that has supported over 50 space missions on behalf of more than 10 Space or Government agencies around the globe, including the likes of ESA, CNES, EUMETSAT, EUSPA, ASI and NASA. We offer space capabilities across the full space lifecycle from satellite testing to Launch services, LEOP to spacecraft operations, space surveillance to data management, and supporting downstream application development. With over 55 years history in the space sector Serco is well placed to contribute to National strategies across Europe and the globe We work within the heart of the space sector so understand the challenges our customers face. When it comes to recruitment we are experts in sourcing the very best talent within space engineering, earth observation, satellite communications and cyber security. We have placed hundreds of people from post graduates through to C-suite executives into space agencies, satellite operators, manufacturers, system integrators, consultancies, earth observation/remote sensing, launch providers and much more.

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