Schedule & Risk Management Support Officer

We are looking for multiple Schedule & Risk Management Support Officers to join our Akkodis Aerospace team, working onsite at the European Space Agency in the Netherlands. 

Specific tasks to be performed: 

Schedule and Risk Management Support

• Co-ordinate project schedule and risk support ensuring common approaches are followed; common tools are used where possible; improvements are suggested, and the service operates as independently as possible under the service work package manager and guidance of the WPTR as required.
• Provide expert schedule and risk support, inputs, evaluations, and recommendations to project teams during major procurement activities, (e.g. ITT, CCB), programmatic reviews (e.g. IPREV) and technical reviews (e.g. PDR, CDR).
• Provide expert input to project teams for the definition and update of project Schedule and Risk Management Plans.
• Support the BUC office in the definition, update, and reporting of project CACs, by integrating resources, cost, risk, and schedule in the HRE tools as required.
• Set-up and configure schedule and risk tools and in close cooperation with project control and each project core team.
• Support and assist project teams in their schedule or risk management process including ESA interactions with international partners and industrial consortia.
• Perform the function of the book captain for schedule management at project level ensuring configuration control is maintained on baseline and working schedules SW files and documentation.
• Provide support to project teams in schedule control and periodic monitoring of its industrial consortia against the approved baseline schedule.
• Determine the criticality of schedule activities on HRE projects, evaluate, and recommend alternatives for schedule improvement, recovery, and acceleration 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 and maintain trend charts and templates for reporting progress, in line with agency best practices, requirements for interactions with International Partners and Industrial consortia.
• Set up and maintain schedule performance indicators and quality metrics for project schedules.
• Prepare periodic quarterly and ad-hoc reports documenting schedule performance status and analysis and communicate on the content to the project team as well as to external stakeholders via the working interface.
• Support all project stakeholders in understanding the status of the planning in their work domain and issue recommendations for improvement.
• Proactively track and verify the consistency between the schedules of the Industrial Consortia and CFI/GFE 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.
• Provide expert support to the ESA Project Manager, project controller and project team in the risk management process, including recommendations for schedule recovery or acceleration, definition of mitigation plans and follow-up of actions.
• Support project control in the definition, update and issue of the integrated Master Schedule required at HRE program level.
• Perform project or mission close-out schedule related activities, if required

Schedule and Risk Support for Reviews

• Attend and participate in meetings for preparation and review organisation as requested.
• Evaluate the provided review data-pack as per assigned documents.
• Run full schedule assessment. 
• Raise RIDs, support technical negotiations, support RID disposition, action items, and follow-up activities.
• Propose opportunities for schedule improvement and acceleration.
• Produce summary review presentations for the schedule & risk review findings, status of related review objectives and points for management endorsement or decision.
• Evaluate updated schedule and risk data, provided by industrial stakeholders for RID and/or Action Items closure.
• Perform review close-out schedule related activities.
• Capture of lessons learned from the review process for schedule and risk management processes.

Company details

Akkodis has proudly supported the Aerospace & Defence industry in the Netherlands for decades. Our partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) has been one of the many success stories allowing our people to expand their career horizons. Akkodis experts are contributing to some of the most important technical advances in Aerospace and Defence which impact the way we live our lives today, through specialised engineering expertise and other required skillsets. This could be your future. Become part of our successful team!

About ESA-ESTEC

 

The European Space Agency (ESA) has sites in several European countries.

The European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), has grown into ESA’s largest establishment and the technical and organizational hub of Europe’s space sector. Missions designed and tested at ESTEC are circling Earth, have landed on planetary bodies and have probed far into the Solar System.

The infrastructure and equipment assembled here, together with the expert knowhow of its 2800 personnel, make ESTEC a unique resource for Europe. The work done here by teams skilled in every aspect of engineering for space has enabled the creation of novel communication, navigation and information services, creating new jobs and growth while improving the lives of European and world citizens.

Candidate’s Profile

To successfully perform the above mentioned tasks, the following background / experience is required: 

• Masters in Engineering or equivalent or MBA or equivalent University degree from a recognised Institution of secondary studies or equivalent qualification in Business Administration, with relevant experience.
• Solid understanding and demonstrated experience of the space systems development and ECSS Space Management is considered a strong asset.
• Experience in using schedule, risk, and configuration management electronic tools, best practices, and methods as relevant.
• High capacity to interact and communicate effectively with international teams from engineering, technical and business domains.
• High level of organizational skills, with attention to detail, flexibility, and ability to identify priorities.

Please send your CV to recruitmentaerospace@akkodisgroup.com as soon as possible