Schedule and Risk Officer

4 weken geleden

Noordwijk, Nederland CS Group Voltijd

Full-time

Department: Project Management

**Company Description**:
This position is supporting our client ESA at their ESTEC location in Noordwijk in the Netherlands. In this large European agency, you will find an excellent and modern working environment with challenging tasks and responsibilities with the opportunity to gain exposure to various projects and missions at the heart of European space research and development.

If you are successful in this position you are guaranteed a very competitive salary, a permanent Dutch contract, Industry leading base salary, full healthcare, pension contribution, 30 days’ vacation, annual training budget, access to the ESTEC social club membership and a relocation package if required.

Your specific duties will include:
- As a part of our Project Management Support Service at the ESA Directorate of Human and Robotic Exploration, you will support its EPMO and PMOs of up to multi-hundred-million-euro projects related to spacecraft delivery and human operations in Low Earth Orbit, Moon or Mars missions. Within them you will have the following responsibilities:

- Coordinate and provide project management support during the project life-cycle (ECSS phases A to E1) specifically in the areas of schedule and risk management, delivering expertise and hands-on execution of the related activities in these knowledge areas.
- Execute the below, but not limited to, schedule-specific activities:

- Control the schedule artifacts provided by the industrial contractors and consortia of the projects, across their multiple tiers, and internal schedules;
- Perform schedule analysis at the required level including critical path analysis, float summary, performance indicators and quality metrics;
- Develop, integrate and update internal schedules in collaboration with the project management team and discipline technical leads by defining and sequencing activities, estimating durations, assigning resources and working calendars, run schedule risk assessments, and allocate relevant margins;
- Evaluate project schedule competing critical paths and activity hub bottlenecks, evaluate and recommend alternatives for schedule improvement (such as compression, fast-tracking and resequencing) to the technical teams for discussion and/or decision;
- Assess the alignment between the prime industrial schedules and their lower-tier suppliers, proactively identifying potential issues and proposing response actions;
- Run simulations and what-if scenarios in support of the management and technical decision process;
- Design and maintain periodic and ad-hoc schedule performance artifacts such as reports, dashboards and others, targeting internal and external stakeholders including project teams, corporate controlling, programme board, International Partners and industrial contractors, in line with the best practices;
- Perform schedule configuration management at project level, ensuring and detaining proper version tracking of the baseline and current schedules files and related documentation.
- Execute the below, but not limited to, risk-specific activities:

- Provide expert knowledge to the project teams in the risk management process, definition of response plans and follow-up of actions;
- Support project teams in identifying what-if scenarios, including risk adjusted scenarios;
- Evaluate risk data provided by internal and external stakeholders for closure of Review Item Discrepancies and and/or action items.
- Provide expert schedule and risk assessments and recommendations to project teams during major procurement activities, (e.g. ITT, CCB), programmatic reviews and life-cycle gate reviews (e.g. ECSS SRR, PDR, CDR).
- Assist project teams in defining, updating, and reviewing their project Schedule and Risk Management Plans, including the internal processes and those interfacing the industrial suppliers and International Partners.
- Support the business unit controlling office in the definition, update, and reporting of project CaCs, including schedule-cost-resource-risk integration, using the available corporate tools as required.
- Capture lessons learned on schedule and risk management processes across the different projects and task groups, to make available for internal knowledge management.

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

- Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline (STEM, Project Management or Business Administration), preferentially with an affinity to Space.
- ** 4**years of experience in schedule and risk management for large capex projects in sectors such as Aerospace, Defence or Civil Construction, involving broad multi-tier industrial consortia.
- Experience with schedule techniques such as critical path analysis, resource allocation and levelling, cost and risk integration, what-if scenarios, and best practices in schedule design.
- Ability to deliver from scratch complex schedules of integrated system

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