Engineering Data Management Specialist - Scheduling

Job Description:

Engineering Data Management Specialist - Scheduling

Airbus Defence and Space is one of the three Divisions of the Airbus Group and Europe’s Number 1 defence and space company. It is the world’s second largest space company and one of the top 10 defence companies globally. Airbus Defence and Space develops and engineers cutting-edge and peerlessly reliable products in the field of defence and space. Its defence and space technologies enable governments and institutions to protect natural resources, societies and individual freedom.

www.airbusdefenceandspace.com

Interest group:                                      

PMO technical specialists

Contract type/working time:                   

Permanent / Fulltime

Work experience:                                 

min 2 years overall working experience in Project Management Office / System Engineering technical domain

We are looking for an Engineering Data Management Specialist to become part of the Airbus Defence and Space Romania team.

Mission: Special subtype of system engineering with the focus on a transversal Engineering speciality: Engineering Data Management. Collaborates closely with the Chief Engineer / Engineering Project Manager of different systems/system elements for Airbus Defence and Space applying the most efficient and innovative technologies to create reports based on custom data.

Areas of impact: Scheduling, Business intelligence, Report creation, PMO activities 

Responsibilities:

• Create and update detailed project schedule in specific tool (MS Project / Primavera / Unified Planning, Atlassian Big Picture etc.) – activities / milestones / attributes / logical relationships
• Align dependencies between WPs, milestones and deliverables with project stakeholders
• Analyse the schedule (activity sequence, durations, constraints)
• Update tasks, milestones and resource assignments according to the progress
• Resource levelling (manual / automatic)
• Timelines / Layouts / Filters / Critical path / Schedule optimization / Leads and Lags / Schedule Variance Analysis / Schedule trends / Metrics / Reports
• Schedule monitoring / baseline creation
• Monitoring of detailed activities in JIRA by frequent update / status meetings with all task owners
• Creation and maintenance of Project Management artefacts (e.g. schedules, resource plans, EVM KPIs, project management reports) or System Engineering specific artefacts (e.g. Requirements KPIs, Traceability Matrices etc.) in collaboration with responsible WPMs / CE / PM
• Defines / manages the specific deliverables for the specialty area, in accordance to the project life cycle or engineering organization’s needs
• Participates into definition of supporting life cycle processes that balance cost, schedule, and performance objectives
• Develop policies and techniques for gathering and analysing data
• Organise and present training, workshops and demos on topics related to the used tools
• Based on business needs, occasional travel within and outside the country may be required.

Requirements:

• Experience in PMO / System Engineering technical domain with IT technical background (e.g. Software, Computer Science)

• Scheduling experience with Microsoft Project / Primavera / other specific scheduling tool
• Basic experience / knowledge with Project Management Tools (Reporting tools, MS Office, Action items tracking, Risk management, Requirements Management, Google Suite), Project Management Processes and Agile Project Management Tools (Confluence, Jira, Big Picture), basic financial processes
• Experience with data analysis, integration and reporting from various systems
• Ability to easily communicate and interact with stakeholders (Chief Engineers, Project Managers, Work Package Managers etc.) – the role is transversal and assumes communication with various managers and teams, most communication needs to be handled remotely
• Fluent in English, ideally basic German and French

Specific knowledge

• Knowledge on Software development processes and / or hardware, engineering, Agile way of working, Jira / Confluence
• Basic knowledge on the Specialty area: Project Management or Agile methodologies (SCRUM, KANBAN)
• Administration and configuration of Atlassian tools (eazyBI, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) or Project Management Tools
• Ability to understand and use basic scripts related to the tools mentioned above (Jira - JQL, eazyBI MDX and Confluence Macros) or Power BI (with guidance)

Competencies:

• Strong customer orientation
• Excellent interpersonal skills – ability to quickly communicate the proper information
• Result oriented and organized
• Problem solving
• Logical thinking
• Flexibility and adaptation to change
• Working in a multicultural environment / as part of a team

What do we offer you?

•  A great place to develop your career
•  Exciting and meaningful projects
•  Continuous education and training
•  A motivating salary and a comprehensive package of benefits
•  Performance related bonus

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus Defence and Space Romania SRL

Employment Type:

Permanent

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Experience Level:

Entry Level

Job Family:

Sub-system development

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