Purpose of Role

Reporting to

Head of Project Management

Principal Accountabilities

• Work with Proposal Managers in the estimation of new project schedule.
• Work with Project Managers to establish the WBS, assigning durations, dependencies, resources and costs.
• Maintain and implement an up-to-date project time schedule and include PM@Dematic ‘Q’ gates and project deliverables.
• Monitor and track the progress achieved vs planned progress for the various project activities throughout the project life cycle: engineering, procurement, installation, commissioning, testing and ramp-up support.
• Identify and anticipate risks of delays. This has to indicate clearly the critical path of activities and any deviations from the plan.
• Prepare Progress Monitoring System (Progress figures, unexpected documents revision,..) for all projects KPI  (1^st priority is to measure delay in engineering to implement/anticipate corrective actions)
• Provide support to the Project Manager & team on site in analyzing current status , give alerts and forecast possible deviations.
• With the Project Managers, proposes recovery plan to meet the baseline schedules.
• Prepares Internal regular Progress Reports with the Project Managers in order to highlight the potential activities delay on the projects (weekly or monthly: depending of the size of the project).
• Maintain good control over the schedule forecast of the execution and give accurate predictions of over or under spending in time.
• Support the Project Managers in Claim management in terms of schedule delay from the customer side.
• Work within and ensure full compliance with the PM@Dematic guidelines.
• Capability to develop procedure and recommend changes to improve the efficiency of planning  measurement and scheduling of projects.

Knowledge & Experience Required

• Minimum HNC in mechanical or electrical engineering.
• Engineering degree desirable.
• Proficiency knowledge level of MS Project.
• Good knowledge of  Excel and Word.
• Good English level.
• Minimum 10-year experience in project planning.

Key Contacts

Internal: Project Managers / Purchasing / Engineering / Finance

External: Third Party Suppliers / Customers

Competencies