Thales is a global technology leader for the aerospace, space, defense, security and transportation markets. Thales Security business unit is currently anticipating execution of the Special Airport Systems and Information and Communication Technology Package as part of the Bahrain Airport Modernization Program.
Position is open for a Planning and Reporting Manager to:
1) Develop and manage the schedule for Bahrain Airport Modernisation Program. To undertake various functions related to the planning and managing schedule for Airport Systems and Information and Communication Technology and interfaces with Civil Works and different stakeholders.
2) Develop and manage the internal and external reportings ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
• Understand Airport Systems and Information and Communication Technologies and have an excellent understanding of Project life cycle: the initialization phase, the design, procurement, construction/installation, interfaces, commissioning and integration of the different Systems
• Expert in planning methodology, like PERT
• Experienced user of Primavera P6, TILOS and other recognised planning tools
• Manage the overall development, maintenance, control and reporting of integrated resource-loaded project schedule
• Experience in project control tool included and not limited to data analysis, Earned Value analysis, and delays analysis
• Experience of Schedule Risk analysis and Critical Path Analysis
• Experience of Claims analysis, in particular Time Impact, Collapsed-as built and windows methods
• Experience in resource histograms preparation and chart planning
• Experience in working in a multi-national company and on a big scale projects.
• Experience in internal and external reporting
• Responsible for managing the project schedule and ensure to identity deviations, slippages and delays on the project schedule baseline.
• Responsible to collect and consolidate all the inputs and planning feedback from the different stakeholder (other Thales entities, work package managers, sub-contractors, third parties, …)
• Responsible to highlight to senior management on a timing manner any deviation on the project schedule baseline.
• Ensuring that all issues within the schedule are highlighted to senior management and to give appropriate planning advice.
• In charge of managing the project planning department.
• In charge to provide necessary planning and progress reports whenever is needed.
• Attend and present at regular client planning and delivery meetings
• In charge for producing all reporting’s (weekly and monthly progress reports to the customer and monthly Dashboard reports for the PM and senior management) in due time.
WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
You should have:
•10 years of Primavera experience and on similar projects
• 5 years experiences of running planning teams on large multi-discipline projects
• Airport Systems and Information and Communication Technologies experiences
• Tilos experience preferred
QUALIFICATION & EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant engineering field
• Membership of relevant professional body (APM, CIHT, PMI etc.)
• Able to work under limited supervision
• Having high attention to details and being accurate.
• Having good organizational skills.
• Having good communication abilities.
• Highly competent in written English
PREFERRED SKILLS
• Able to work under pressure and committed to deliver
• Strong leadership to be able to collect all information on time
• Open mind and strategic sense;
• Ability to analyse and summarize;
• Rigorous Time management and prioritizing;
• High resistance to stress;
• Team work skills With operations in 50 countries and 68,000 employees, Thales is a world leader in mission-critical information systems for defence and security, aerospace and transportation.
Building on its expertise in the most sophisticated technologies and large-scale software systems, Thales is stepping up to the security challenges of its customers in an increasingly complex world. With its global network of 22,500 high-level researchers, Thales has earned particular recognition for its ability to develop and deploy dual civil and military technologies. Leveraging its international operations and spanning the entire value chain from equipment to systems and services, Thales is playing a pivotal role in making the world a safer place. |