Scheduler Service

Issue the preliminary Study Master Schedule;
- Collect top-level requirements for planning and evaluate all relevant technical and programmatic documentation available at mission level;
- Advise study management team where supporting information is lacking and proactively collaborate to generate it, in support of a realistic schedule build-up;
- Evaluate all available master schedules throughout the industrial consortium (e.g. but not limited to: ESA, industrial primes, CFIs) and issue recommendations for improvement;
- Work with discipline technical leads to define the network logic, interfaces, key milestones and need dates;
- Proactively verify the consistency between the schedules of the Industrial Contractors and CFI providers with respect to those of their lower tier suppliers, if available, to identify potential problem areas and to propose relevant mitigation actions;
- Attend meetings as requested;
- Set up trend charts and templates for reporting mission progress, in line with agency best practices, tools and in close cooperation with mission management team;
- Integrate and develop the study mission schedule in collaboration with the study management team and discipline technical leads: define work activities and milestones, define durations and assign dependencies, create calendars and network logic, consider schedule size and granularity, run risk assessments and allocate relevant margins;
- Run critical path analysis, advise on schedule risks and runs schedule scenarios;
- Assist in planning the project work-scope across multiple international teams (ESA, industrial primes, CFIs);
- Issue the Mission Baseline Schedule;
- Monitor and control the preliminary mission master schedule: perform complex schedule analysis including metrics, critical path analysis, schedule risk evaluation, float summary and assess the schedule performance at mission level;
- Determine the criticality of schedule activities, evaluate and recommend alternatives for schedule improvement to the study team for discussion and/or decision, run simulations and what-if scenarios in support of mission management and technical teams decision process;
- Set up trend charts and templates for reporting mission progress, in line with agency best practices, tools and in close cooperation with mission management team;
- Prepare reports documenting the analysis and communicate on the content to the study team as well as to external stakeholders via the working interface;
- Support all project stakeholders in understanding the current status of the planning in their work domain and issue recommendations for improvement, with particular focus on payload follow-up for science missions due to its high importance in the mission;
- Proactively verify the consistency between the schedules of the Industrial Contractors and CFI/Payload providers with respect to those of their lower tier suppliers, if available, to identify potential problem areas and to propose relevant mitigation actions;
- Develop, integrate and update the study mission schedule in collaboration with the study management team and discipline technical leads: define work activities and milestones, define durations and assign dependencies, create calendars and network logic, consider schedule size and granularity, run risk assessments and allocate relevant margins to enable accurate critical path analysis;
- Create and update on monthly basis mission trend charts;
- Run regular schedule update meetings with the study team and issue updated versions of the Preliminary Mission Master Schedule, as per instructed frequency;
- Attend meetings as requested;
- Contribute to technical reviews at study level;
- Attend meetings as requested;
- Evaluate the provided data pack as per assigned documents;
- Run full schedule assessment, including, but not limited to: schedule build-up (network logic, durations, calendars, constraints etc.), critical and sub-critical path analysis, schedule risks evaluation, trend performance, schedule margins, contingencies and float analysis;
- Raise RIDs and Action Items;
- Evaluate the updated schedule data, provided by industrial stakeholders for RID and/or Action Items closure;
- Set up the mission schedule control environment;
- Customise ESA existent templates and tool entries in line with mission requirements;
- Set up trend charts and templates for reporting mission status and progress, in line with agency best practices, tools and in close cooperation with mission management team;
- Define schedule monitoring, control and reporting metrics and templates, if requested;
- Define cut-off dates for schedule update and reporting (flow down of ESA cut off dates to Prime Contractor and CFIs);
- Attend meetings as requested;
- Define, monitor and control mission schedule portfolio;
- Plan, schedule, monitor and control all mission schedule portfolio submitted by various mission stakeholders in line with contractual agreements (e.g. but not limited to: Agenc