Mission Planning Specialist

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NoordwijkBinnen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland HE Space Voltijd

K ey Tasks and Responsibilities:

The Position Holder will do the following:

  • Develop and evaluate top-level requirements for planning and mission management, considering all relevant technical and programmatic documentation available at mission level.
  • Collaborate with the study management team to identify and generate supporting information, ensuring a realistic schedule build-up.
  • Assess and improve master schedules throughout the industrial consortium, including ESA, industrial primes, and CFIs.
  • Work with discipline technical leads to define network logic, interfaces, key milestones, and need dates for the study mission schedule.
  • Verify the consistency of schedules between Industrial Contractors, CFI providers, and their lower-tier suppliers, identifying potential problem areas and proposing mitigation actions.
  • Attend meetings as requested and participate in schedule update meetings with the study team.
  • Develop and integrate the study mission schedule, defining work activities, milestones, durations, and dependencies, considering schedule size and granularity.
  • Run critical path analysis, advise on schedule risks, and perform schedule scenarios to support mission management and technical teams.
  • Assist in planning the project work-scope across multiple international teams, including ESA, industrial primes, and CFIs.
  • Monitor and control the preliminary mission master schedule, performing complex schedule analysis, including metrics, critical path analysis, and schedule risk evaluation.
  • Determine the criticality of schedule activities, evaluate and recommend alternatives for schedule improvement, and run simulations and what-if scenarios.
  • Set up trend charts and templates for reporting mission progress, in line with agency best practices and tools.
  • Prepare reports documenting analysis and communicate the content to the study team and external stakeholders.
  • Support project stakeholders in understanding the current status of planning in their work domain and provide recommendations for improvement.
  • Develop, integrate, and update the study mission schedule, considering the schedule size and granularity.
  • Create and update mission trend charts and run regular schedule update meetings with the study team.
  • Plan, schedule, monitor, and control all mission schedule portfolio submitted by various mission stakeholders, in line with contractual agreements.
  • Work with discipline technical leads to develop schedules, define key milestones, identify critical and subcritical paths, assess schedule risks, and list deliverables.
  • Aggregate and synthesize lower-level schedule inputs from the industrial consortium and CFIs into a Mission Master Schedule.

Skills & Experience:

You will have the following qualifications and relevant experience:

  • Master's degree in a relevant discipline (Engineering or Business Administration).
  • Experience with Microsoft Project Professional, Visio Professional, Office Timeline, and Microsoft Office Software.
  • Expertise with techniques allowing the use of such software tools to provide active schedule management and best scheduling practices.
  • Experience with schedule peculiarities of spacecraft development is an asset.
  • Fluency in English is mandatory, and knowledge of another European language is an advantage.

This role is located in Noordwijk.



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