Scheduling Engineer

Orion Group Life Sciences 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.

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As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.