15984 – Scheduling Engineer – Meath Contractor

This is a 12 month contract with a view to extension

Purpose

An amazing opportunity has arisen for a Scheduling Engineer, at our clients new state of the art Biotech facility in Meath.
This is a contingent position which will support the start-up activities and programs required for the operational readiness plan for manufacturing at the new BioNX facility. The successful Engineer will work closely with the ORP Handover transition Lead and a team of design and build engineers to transition from project to sustain for all manufacturing assets and processes.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates schedule development sessions with project team and collects data for schedule logic, activity durations and resource requirements.
• Manages the preparation of schedules for all phases of a project.
• To work with the team to manage a reliable and responsive planning service for projects.
• Responsible for ensuring that schedule updates from the various area owners are carried out, and that these inputs are cross checked and consistent with one another to support the overall Project/Program.
• Ensures that all quality checks are carried out on the Schedule before issue
• To analyse project requirements and manage the preparation of a Project Master Schedule which integrates strategies and constraints for all project phases.
• To monitor progress against schedules, analyse deviations and recommend remedial actions.
• To co-ordinate, in conjunction with colleagues, a progress measurement system and to operate the performance measurement systems.
• Establishes working relationships across the Site /Project Teams.
• Negotiates and monitors levels of service or performance provided, communicates and actions areas of concern to resolve issues.
• Effectively communicating with and managing key stakeholders both internally and externally.
• Proactively managing issues, proposing mitigation/response plans to resolve issues, and effectively implementing the action plan.
• Support the development and running of the Project Management Office on site.
• Performs additional assignments per the PMO Lead’s direction.

Minimum Qualifications/Experience

• Engineering Degree with 3+ years Scheduling and Planning experience preferably in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical sectors ·
• In depth experience of MS Project Progress Reporting, Critical Path Analysis and Key resource profiling.
• A minimum of five to eight years of relevant experience in project co-ordination and scheduling of a broad spectrum of projects in the Pharma industry.
• Demonstrated leadership skills with a continuous improvement focus.
• In depth experience of Excel.
• Project management qualification such as Project Management Professional etc.