About this job

Contract duration: Permanent employment contract, kick off expected September 2020

In support to one of ESA’s ongoing missions (expected to enter the B2 phase in Q3 2020) Sapienza is recruiting a Scheduler / Risk Administration Officer the Project in terms of schedule and risk control.

Responsibilities

Provide support in schedule control for the Spacecraft, as defined in the ESA requirements and ECCS M-60:

• Update the Schedule Database Architecture (schedule tree)
• Decompose work package into schedule activities and milestones
• Identify the logical relationships among schedule activities
• Estimate the number of work periods to complete individual schedule activities
• Develop the schedule
• Enter project activities and milestones with attributes (durations, relationships, leads, lags, constraints, calendars and floats)
• Organize project activities and milestones according to the schedule tree
• Update current layouts and filters required to organize and communicate the schedule
• Run the tool calculations
• Analyse the schedule (activity sequence, durations and constraints)
• Conduct Critical Path Analysis, schedule compression, simulations, what-if scenario
• Collect schedule progress information from the Industrial Manager, the Work Package
• Managers and Suppliers
• Update the Current Schedule with agreed changes
• Run the tool calculations and conduct the critical path analysis
• Perform the schedule variance analysis; edit the schedule comparison bar chart
• Prepare and issue Schedule reports or quick look reports (bar charts, progress, assessment, comments)
• Provide master bar chart and trend charts for the internal monthly progress report
• Save and archive the approved schedule as the Original Baseline Schedule and then as the Baseline Schedule Management up to the end of the project.
• Provide every 4-6 weeks (in line with progress meetings with ESA) overall update and schedule report.

In addition, the following tasks in Risk Management will be expected:

• Support the Project Manager in the implementation of Risk management activities in accordance with the Risk Management Plan, ESA requirements and ECSS-M-ST-80C
• Consolidate to the risk management process from internal, commercial and Work package managers
• Consolidate inputs to the risk management process from system/equipment/service provision subcontractors
• Own and maintain the project risk database
• Regular Risk and opportunity reporting
• Organise and administer risk analysis meetings.

Profile

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance or similar;
• At least 4 years of relevant work experience in scheduling and planning with experience in the application of schedule management and control principles;
• Ability to establish/utilize advanced schedule control techniques, including Critical Path Analysis, Trend Chart Analysis and simulations;
• Some experience in Risk Management, analysing probability and impact and maintaining an ongoing risk register;
• Strong knowledge of SAP and Excel;
• Previous experience working on ESA missions will be considered a strong advantage;
• Excellent organisational skills;
• Strong attention to detail;
• Ability to work independently in a heterogeneous team;
• Fluent in English;
• Willing to obtain EU (or UK) security clearances if needed;