Senior Associate Customer Project Planner

Senior Associate, Project Planner

Mission

As part of a project team, your responsibilities would include:

• Managing the project schedule from initiation to project closure, for projects with various complexity.
  
• Acting as the local point of contact for the project manager and customer.
  
• Coordinating project scheduling deliverables and exchanges with stakeholders and customers.
  
• Acting as individual contributor focused on executing operational and functional strategies within project planning.
  
• Organizing coordination meetings to integrate different perspectives of key stakeholders.
  
• Data implementation and designing non-technical processes and programs, utilizing your specialized knowledge and expertise.
  
• Sharing the project planning through the designated portal(s).
  
• Managing regular reporting to the Project Manager and Technical Leaders regarding the produced and validated planning.

Scope and Environmnet

Customer Projects and/or Services at zone or regional level

Key responsibilities / activities

• During the Selling phase, your tasks would include:
  
• Attending orientation meetings with key communication channels to align on all project aspects.
  
• Studying and analyzing the provided project inputs.
  
• Consulting with subject matter experts for clarification on ambiguous parts of the project.
  
• Organizing workshops with the tender manager and each key stakeholder independently to develop their scope in the schedule.
  
• Organizing coordination meetings to integrate different perspectives of key stakeholders, including internal and external suppliers, and incorporating dependencies among project packages in the schedule.
  
• Suggesting different scheduling scenarios to optimize the project work plan.
  
• Performing quality checks on planning deliverables once they are completed.
  
• Assisting the Tender Manager in Project Risk Analysis.
  
• Preparing the Tender Schedule or High-level project plan and revising it as per additional requirements.

During the Initiate & Set-up stage, your tasks would include:

Participating in orientation meetings with key communication channels to align on all project aspects.
Studying and analyzing the provided project inputs.
Consulting with subject matter experts for clarification on ambiguous parts of the project.
Organizing workshops with project managers and each key stakeholder independently to develop their scope in the schedule.
Organizing coordination meetings to integrate different perspectives of key stakeholders, including internal and external suppliers, and including dependencies among project packages in the schedule.
Suggesting different scheduling scenarios to optimize the project work plan.
Organizing meetings with the customer planner to understand their requirements and present planning outputs to them once completed.
Performing quality checks on planning deliverables once they are completed.
Proposing a Schedule Management Plan.
Preparing the Baseline Schedule.
Suggesting a progress report template to be submitted by suppliers and to the customer, along with related processes.
Assisting the Project Manager in elaborating the baseline resource plan.

During the Integrated Change Control stage, your tasks would include:

Gathering and providing elements for Change Orders, including conducting time impact analysis.
Assisting the project manager in updating the project resource plan to accommodate changes.
Managing the baseline according to the initial contract and signed change orders, and revising the current schedule accordingly.

During the Close stage, your tasks would include:
Assisting the Project Manager in updating the Lessons Learned Register from a planning and scheduling perspective. This involves capturing insights and best practices related to the planning and scheduling processes used in the project.

Requirements

Education

• University Degree (Engineering or Business)
• PMP-A certificate or commensurate experience

Language requirements 

• English fluency is a must
• Another language will be valuable (FR/ES)

Experience

• Minimum 3 year in being part of a project team
• Experience in working in a plant is a plus
• Experience in engineering is a plus

Skills requirements 

• Highly organized
• High attention to detail
• Strong analytical skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Great communication skills
• Comfortable with new integrated digital tools for improved work efficiency and reporting (Power Automate, Power BI, Tableu, MS copilot)

Tools:

• MS Project - Advanced;
  
• Primavera P6 - nice to have
  
• Power BI and/or Tableau: nice to have

Send us your CV and get the chance to HAVE:

• EXCITING JOB: Join a global leader in Digital Transformation of Energy Management and Automation.
• Our INCLUSIVE REWARD PORTFOLIO is designed to support YOU to be your best and it goes byond pay and benefits.
• MEANINGFUL: Competitive pay & incentives, Market leading & Personalized benefits, Schneider Electric Foundation supporting individuals and communities around the world
• INCLUSIVE: Fair pay initiatives GLOBAL, Family Leave Policy, Pay equity
• EMPOWERED: Workplace flexibility
• OPEN TALENT MARKET to own your career locally or globally
• LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT: E-learning platform & E-learning Link
• HEALTH AND WELL-BEING: Group life insurance for employees, Flexile working hours & home office, Multisport card, Meal allowance, Relax room & Massages
• FAMILY LEAVE POLICY: Child care, Care Leave, Bereavement leave, Additional day off for women on International Women´s Day, 4 Sick days, 1 Bridge day per year
• RECOGNITION and REWARDS: Attractive referral bonus, Diversity & Inclusion initiatives and events, Celebration of seniority
• PERKS: Cafeteria benefit, WESOP (Worldwide Employee Share Ownership Plan), Recreation allowance

Information about the selection process:

If you are interested in this position, please send us your CV in English or Slovak language. We really appreciate your job application. Please mind we will contact only candidates meeting our job requirements.
Thank you for your kind understanding.

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