Job Description
Octagon Professionals is looking for a Schedule and Risk Management Expert who will join and support the definition and maintenance of Project Schedules of the CSC directorate of ESTEC, in Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
Please note that the successful candidate will be employed by Octagon Professionals.
The tasks include the following:
1. Co-ordinate project schedule and risk support ensuring common approaches and tools are followed.
2. Provide support to project teams in schedule control and periodic monitoring.
3. Perform analysis of incoming schedules, including metrics on quality, critical path analysis, float summary, and assess the schedule performance at the required level.
4. Provide expert schedule and risk support, inputs, evaluations, and recommendations to project teams during major procurement activities.
5. Set-up and configure schedule and risk tools.
6. Coordinate and support schedule/risk meetings with the ESA project teams.
7. Determine the criticality of schedule activities on CSC projects. Run simulations and what-if scenarios in support of management and technical teams’ decision process.
8. Set up and maintain trend charts, and templates for reporting progress.
9. Set up and maintain schedule performance indicators and quality metrics for project schedul...