Planning Engineer (SAP BI) / France

Role Outline

• Co-ordination of all activities related to the clients system deployment through Project Planning and Progress measurement & reporting, aiming at completion of the Work within the assigned duration and budget.
• Ensuring availability at all times of an up-to-date and accurate Project Overall Planning and Progress reporting documentation and dashboards.
• Monitoring of Systems Project Overall Schedule and identifying at all times any area of concern (critical path, clashes, delays, early start).
• Alert System Project Management of potential delays and resource overload or underload, in particular for critical activities.
• Ensure a good consolidation and a good coordination of the several sub-projects' schedules.
• Prepare and maintain the planning of all activities in close collaboration system BPO and with all entities involved for all activities, etc...
• Close collaboration with System BPO and Cost Control teams to ensure a good follow-up of actual progress and correspondence with planned expenditures for invoicing purposes.
• Provide user training, produce organisational processus and methodologie documents.
• Support Users with the usage of the application.

Activities

• Review and analysis of all existing scheduling and planning documents.
• Elaboration and Updating if required of Project Work Breakdown Structure.
• Participate to the creation of the template project plannings.
• Support stakeholders to define typical resource profiles (critical point for true planning) and to co-build deployment type schedules (acceptable / manageable level of detail for all).
• Manage roles and authorization, count licenses requiredMonitor progress and control Project activities.
• Elaborate Unisol Project progress reports, knowledge of powerBI is an advantage to optimize the native MS project reporting solution when necessary.
• Prepare Unisol project Planning documents as required.
• Review and analyse all Scheduling documents, and participate to planning regular reviews with all involved metiers. Being able to say what project deliverable has to be done, by who and when it is expected.
• Liaise with Cost control teams for project Cost Control: Provide to Cost Control teams necessary information related to planning to ensure good consitency between actual progress and planned expenditures for corresponding activities.
• Develop and maintain Unisol activities overall planning at all levels.
• Identify the links between the activities of the metiers and ensure consistency between the plannings related to each of these activities.
• Identify the critical paths and potential delays, or risks of delays or resource overload / underload and propose corrective actions.
• Ensure a proper follow-up of the Projects progress of all metiers.
• Provide all necessay information related to planning for elaboration of various internal and external reports.
• Elaboration, updating and revision of Unisol Project schedules as required.
• Elaboration and revision of Project scheduling procedures and documents in close supervision of the PMO.
• Close and continous control of Project Managers execution schedules and progress reports in comparison with the approved baseline.
• Checking and commenting Metiers' procedures and schedules.
• Metiers' scheduling methodology analysis and control.
• Control, follow up and reminding of stakeholders progress measurement and figures (metier HQ, IT, affiliate).Consolidating scheduling information for analysis and/or reporting as required.
• Provide detailed and accurate monthly progress report to be incorporated into the UNISOL Monthly Project Report. and in particular the "S- curves" with the appropriate granularity for the program and project views.
• Organize and animate all necessary meetings related to scheduling activities.
• Be a force of proposal for the organization and methodology around the planning activities.
• Provide assistance to the Unisol Project management for all matters related to Scheduling & Progress Reporting..

Qualifications And Experience Required

• Good knowledge of Scheduling and Planning activities in SAP and IT and Oil&Gas environment, with 10 years experience.
• Good Knowledge and Practice of MS Project Online.
• Knowledge of power BI is an advantage.
• Previous experience(s) in multinational task force environment with good communication skills.
• Fluent (speaking and writing) in English and French.