Planning and Schedule Officer (RT-C/HRE-PM/00091)

Job Introduction

Serco is among the leading Space Industry and Services Companies. We have over 40 years’ experience in supporting the space sector: Since the creation of the European Space Agency (ESA), our employees have been providing everyday their technical, scientific and management skills to support the full range of European cornerstone space missions. 

Serco and Proud - Make a difference every day.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a  Planning and Schedule Officer, based in Noordwijk (Netherlands) .

Role Responsibility

The post-holder will focus on the below main responsibilities:

• Reporting directly to the HRE Head of Project Control and working on a
daily basis with the project controllers and project teams of the OrionESM, IHAB and ESPRIT projects, the new team member will perform a range of tasks, as described in the description below
• Provide schedule support in major tender evaluations of the Gateway and Orion-ESM projects.
• Provide support to, and/or participate in, contractual and technical negotiations for schedule aspects.
• Provide schedule support to the major technical reviews of the main
projects in the Directorate to ensure schedule objectives are met.
• Support the projects in their schedule interactions with our International
partners
• Assist the projects in the day to day schedule monitoring and control of
its industrial consortium against the baseline schedule• Conduct specific ad hoc schedule analysis of project activities as
needed.
• Support the Risk management process of the Projects.
• Assist the HRE Project Control section in the design and implementation of new schedule control / progress monitoring techniques.

• Scheduler tasks will bring the incumbent in contact with our project’s Industrial consortia and with the international partner organisations (NASA, JAXA, and CSA ).

Successful Candidate

Because of the pro-active nature of the work on schedule controlling that
will be required, the post holder will also need to show :

• Masters in Engineering or equivalent University degree from a recognised Institution of secondary studies or equivalent qualification in Business Administration, with relevant experience.
• Demonstrated expertise with the use of modern schedule software tools (at least both MS Project, Primavera)
• Expertise with the techniques that allow the use of such software tools to provide active schedule management and best scheduling practices
• Experience with the schedule peculiarities of spacecraft development is an asset
• Proactivity, good communication skills and attention to detail
• Ability to interact effectively with the technical personnel in our projects and colleagues of different backgrounds (engineering, management, legal)
• Capability to summarise and present complex information to colleagues and senior management in a concise and clear manner
• Capability to work autonomously and at the same time be able to work effectively as part of a team.
 

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Package Description

What we offer if you join our amazing team:

• Competitive Salary 

• Corporate Benefits Package 

• Exciting relocation package​ (if applicable) 

• Company events

About the Company

Serco is one of the world’s largest providers of public services to Governments employing over 50,000 people in over 20 countries. In Europe, Serco supports governments and international organisations in the delivery of essential public services with operations in Belgium, France and French Guyana, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland.

Serco is a trusted provider of services to National Space Agencies and the European Space Agency (ESA). We have over 40 years’ experience supporting the space sector and providing services for all stages of our customer’s space missions.

What connects the ever growing Serco workforce is a passion for delivering great service and to keep ahead we have to constantly evolve and enhance the way we deliver our services and everyone in Serco has a role to play. We have a mandate to execute brilliantly and our people lead and inspire based on our core values, Trust, Care, Pride and Innovation.

If you share our values and want to join a team of over 50,000 passionate colleagues globally we want to hear from you.

Make a difference every day.

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https://www.serco.com/eu/sector-expertise/space

https://www.serco.com/eu/careers/careers-in-space

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