Package Description
What we offer if you join our amazing team:
- Competitive Salary.
- Great career opportunities in the Space industry
- Comprehensive package of benefits offered by the company.
- Hybrid working model to support work-life balance.
- Opportunity to work in an international environment.
Job Introduction
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 'Best in Domain' awards from ESA. Their long-standing partnership with ESA reflects their commitment to excellence and innovation in the space sector.
On behalf of our client, the European Space Agency, we are looking for a skilled Planning and Scheduling Officer to join our team and work on our customers site ESA-HQ in Paris, France or ESA-ESTEC in the Netherlands.
The primary objective of the service is to provide support on all schedule management activities linked to planning, scheduling, monitoring, and controlling of the ESA Directorates schedules portfolio. It translates into support in aspects related to scheduling, planning, schedule risks identification and mitigation provided to projects from the initial study phases (present and future) to projects in development phases and up to their closeout and/or commissioning.
Main Responsibilities
As Planning and Scheduling Officer you will concentrate your activities on the following:
- Issue and update the Launcher Master Baseline Schedule.
- Monitor and control the master schedule: perform complex schedule analysis including metrics, critical path analysis, float summary and assess the schedule performance at Agency’s level .
- Determine the criticality of schedule activities, evaluate and recommend alternatives for schedule improvement 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 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 technical 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.
- Proactively verify the consistency between the schedules of the Industrial Contractors and CFI providers (if any) with respect to those of their lower tier suppliers, if available, to identify potential problem areas and to propose relevant mitigation actions.
- Integrate and develop the schedule in collaboration with the 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.
- Create and update on monthly basis the required trend charts.
- Attend meetings, as requested.
Successful Candidate
Do you think you are the person we are looking for? See below what experience or knowledge you should bring:
- Master’s degree in Engineering or equivalent University degree from a recognised institution of secondary studies or equivalent qualification in Business Administration, with relevant experience.
- At least 2 years of relevant work 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.
- Excellent interpersonal skills are needed, together with a high degree organizational and communication abilities, and comfortable with working in a diverse and multinational team environment.
- Proficient in the English and French language, both written and spoken.
- Knowledge of another EU member state language is an asset.
- Candidates must be eligible to work in the EU.
About the Company
Why should you join Serco ?
At Serco not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play.
Meaningful and vital work - You’ll contribute to methodologically intercepting challenges whilst achievements will also be recognised and celebrated.
A world of opportunity - You’ll be wholeheartedly supported with development and career progression
Great people - You’ll become an integral member of a well-defined and supportive team who believe passionately in the value of our work. We are a company passionate about diversity and inclusion.
About Serco
Serco Europe has operated in the Netherlands and Spain over the past 30 years, mainly in the field of Space. Serco Netherlands and Spain have a long history of partnership and trust with the European Space Agency (ESA).
In both countries, Serco is proud to deliver the highest calibre of people and services at ESTEC (ESA’s technology and engineering hub) and ESAC (ESA’s Astronomy and Science centre).
At the heart of its business, Serco Netherlands and Spain source, train, care and support employees, enabling them to better pursue their dreams of working in the Space industry in excelling in the delivery of essential public services.
Important:
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