Scheduling Engineer / Dunboyne

We are currently recruiting a Scheduling Engineer on behalf of our Multinational Biopharmaceutical client based in Dunboyne on an initial 11-month contract.

The successful candidate will support the start-up activities and programs required for the operational readiness plan for manufacturing at a new 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.

Key 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 collaborate 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 conducted, and that these inputs are cross checked and consistent with one another to support the overall Project/Program.
• Ensures that all quality checks are conducted on the Schedule before issue.
• Analyses project requirements and manage the preparation of a Project Master Schedule which integrates strategies and constraints for all project phases.
• Monitors progress against schedules, analyse deviations and recommend remedial actions.
• Coordinates, 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.
• Supports the development and running of the Project Management Office on site.
• Performs additional assignments per the PMO Lead's direction.

Qualifications and Experience:

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