Project Management Officer

Job description

Entity

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aircraft propulsion and equipment, space and defense markets. Safran has a global presence, with more than 58,000 employees and sales of 16.5 billion euros in 2017. Working alone or in partnership, Safran holds world or European leadership positions in its core markets. Safran is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange, and is part of the CAC 40 and Euro Stoxx 50 indices.
In February 2018, Safran took control of Zodiac Aerospace, significantly expanding its aircraft equipment activities. Zodiac Aerospace has 32,500 employees and generated sales of 5.1 billion euros for its fiscal year ended August 31, 2017.

Safran is ranked among the Top 100 Global Innovators by Thomson Reuters and is featured on the "Happy at work" rankings. The Group places fourth on the Universum ranking for the favorite companies of newly-qualified engineers in France.

Safran Engineering Services offers high-technology engineering services in the fields of aerospace, energy and ground transportation. Building on 30 years' experience, the company relies on 3,000 engineers dotted across nine countries worldwide.  

Job details

Main domain/Job field

Research, design and development - Product project management

Job title

Project Management Officer

Contract length

12 months

Employment type

Fixed Term contract

Professional category

Employees / Staff

Part time / Full time

Full-time

Number of hours per week

37

Job description

Safran Engineering Services UK Limited are part of the wider world-wide Safran Group of companies, the 3rd largest aerospace company in the world. We provide a range of engineering services to UK aerospace clients including other Safran sites spread across the UK.
The 7 habits of being effective:-
1. Be proactive - you are in charge!
2. Begin with the end in mind - have a plan!
3. Put things first - know the difference between important and urgent
4. Think win-win - a win for everyone lasts longer!
5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood - listen with empathy
6. Synergise - teams achieve bigger goals
7. Sharpen the saw - take care of yourself and your wellbeing.
Interested?
If you have the essential skills listed below, you want to advance your career/move into the aerospace industry and be part of a small but growing business unit, which has the backing of a larger world-wide organisation you could be our next PMO based at our customer site near Leighton Buzzard. The wider Safran Group can also offer career progression and international mobility.

You will play a key role in assisting programme/Project Managers to prepare project plans and associated reports (milestones, critical path analysis) and assist the Programme Managers in the development of the integrated mater programme plan.
Responsibilities will include supporting the programme, performing administrative tasks, completing spreadsheets, generation status reports, monitoring KPI's, creating project plans and driving the project to achieve milestones and deliveries on time.
Work closely with R&T plan owners and external suppliers/partners to maintain detailed programme plans.
Assist the R&T plan owners to lead regular reviews with project teams and suppliers/partners in order to obtain status update, monitor/record progress, identify trends, risks and issues for the plan, including critical path elements / milestones.
Assist in development of schedule mitigation and recovery plans to ensure timely delivery of the schedule.

Additional description

Desired profile

Assist R&T plan owners to update baseline data ensuring planning changes are authorised, documented and recorded.
Assist in production of Management Information Plans/Forecasts, ensuring sufficient frequency, accuracy and insight to facilitate management decision-making and meet stakeholders' needs.
Liaise with sourcing to track procured items and feed into plans.
Develop/maintain an auditable cost capture process for R&T projects.
Facilitate risk management process for R&T programmes.
Provide support to R&T UK programmes team for each programme, collating/managing Actions, Risks, Issues/Dependencies (ARID) logs, collating data, assist in preparing project Reviews and documentation plus any adjoc requests from the R&T UK Programmes team.
Maintain R&T programmes infrastructure
Assist in documenting, embedding and maintaining standards & guidelines and programme management and R& T policies /procedures to provide effective resource /capacity planning, scheduling, estimating, costing & risk assessment for the programme.
Monitor / track progression of actions to closure.
Maintain a repository for lessons learned for customer led multi-partner programmes.

Travel specifictity

No specific travel identified

Candidate skills & requirements

Efficient using MS Project /MS Excel ;
Competent in PDM software /MS Office Tools;
Technical background to understand engineering activities;
Ability to work in a fast-paced, transverse project environment;
Ability to communicate fluently in English, both verbally and written;
A willingness to undertake PM+ project management methodology training
Understanding of change management, processes and requests
Effective communicator as well as a good team player.
DESIRABLE SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS:
Some experience in Aerospace manufacturing
Knowledge of PROMPT
Experience of ITAR controlled documents
Experience in a design office environment

KEY RELATIONSHIPS
Relationship with the internal / external Customers
Relationship with all onsite / offsite Engineering Departmental Managers
Supporting Programme Manager/s & Technical Project Manager (TPM)
Relationship with Product Line Leaders, Product Architects, Specialists & Peers

SECURITY CLEARANCE
Standard commercial: BPSS. Please note the site has ITAR restrictions due to our customer requirements.

Salary

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