Job description
Company Description
MUST be authorized to work in the United States for any employer.
MUST be available to start working within 3 weeks of offer acceptance date.
SEGULA TECHNOLOGIES is hiring a Senior Project Planning Manager to join our growing team in Rochester, NY.
We offer a competitive salary and benefits plan, and great opportunities for career growth!
With a global presence in 28 countries with 140 offices worldwide, SEGULA GROUP fosters a close relationship with its customers thanks to the expertise of its 11,000 employees.
SEGULA TECHNOLOGIES is an Engineering and Design Services company with a proven ability to boost innovation and competitiveness within the major industrial sectors, including Automotive, Aerospace & Defense, Energy, Rail, Naval, Pharmaceutical, and Oil and Gas.
Job Description
- Analyze the schedule management requirements of the customer.
- Define tender preparation schedule and monitor until the submission of the tender.
- Detail the tender schedule based on reference Library templates, gap analysis, Métiers commitments, and PXO tender strategy.
- Highlight the critical path and risks linked to the project schedule and propose the optimization & mitigation actions.
- Contribute with the project schedule to the project strategy in compliance with the contractual requirements.
- Participate in the definition of the project schedule interfaces with the partners and the customer.
- Deliver on time all schedule deliverables down to the requested level.
- Estimate the cost of scheduling management effort.
- Define and maintain the Project Time Management Plan based on inputs from all stakeholders and keep it updated.
- Animate and coordinate the project scheduling community.
- Build the project schedule based on internal standard WBS, contractual targets, and data provided by all stakeholders.
- Contribute with the Finance Project Manager to Earned Value Management.
- Propose the project baseline and ensure its acceptance (internally and by the Customer).
- Ensure the consistency of all the internal and external stakeholders commitments and manages the schedules interfaces.
- Perform schedule analysis & trade-offs to close identified gaps or schedule issues.
- Organize and lead periodic project schedule sessions.
- Provide a timely updated schedule situation highlighting the gap between the actual and the baseline.
- Focus on early identification of potential delays (critical paths) including the status on risks and margin related to schedule.
- Prepare schedule and progress reports for Customer or Lead Unit or Partners.
- Provide support to Project Core Team on all issues related to projects schedule.
- Apply the Project Scheduling Process.
- Promote time management practices awareness in the project team.
- Coach planning team in project planning practices.
- Contribute to the return of experience (REX) and improvements, share best practices, schedule templates.
- On-time delivery of all requested tender deliverables requested to fulfill RFP requirements.
- On-time delivery of schedule analysis for decisions by the Tender Team: critical paths for main milestones, planning risks, standard metrics measuring schedule robustness.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or in a related discipline.
- 7-10 years’ experience in related field required.
- Project management and industrial background.
- Experience in complex projects (Design-build).
- Familiar with internal processes (Tenders, Projects, Engineering, Industrial, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Quality, and their interfaces).
- Worked with resource load schedule.
- Planisware ODY.C is mandatory.
- Primavera P6 and MS-Project software skills are mandatory.
- Advanced MS Office proficiency, particularly MS-Excel.
- Desirable overall knowledge of railway products and systems
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
