Peterborough, contract
Our Peterborough manufacturing client requires a Manufacturing Program Analyst to contract for the Program Management Group. Consisting of a dynamic mixture project planning professionals and project managers, the group has an exciting opportunity for a project specialist to join the team working within a fast-paced project environment.
You will be a seasoned manufacturing project management professional. The successful candidate will support projects that have substantial R&D value. Will require limited supervision.
Background
* A college or University degree and/or evidence of equivalent progressively responsible job-related experience in Program Coordination, Information Technology, Engineering, project management or NPI
* Proven experience with project management concepts, including project charters, scheduling and planning projects, and successful on-time delivery.
* Strong project management skills, indirect leadership skills, excellent communication skills, ability to multitask effectively, strong analytical and organisational skills.
* Excellent interpersonal skills to deal with sensitive issues, develop others, or to influence others inside and outside the department to take specific actions.
* Will possess extensive knowledge of project management software (MS Project experience desirable) MS Office (Excel/Word/PowerPoint), Adobe Acrobat, and Web Publishing tools.
Direction of role
* Delivering planning meetings for smaller projects with little or no requirement for supervision. The individual must possess the ability to work with a range of functional areas to develop a detailed work breakdown structure (WBS) and translate the WBS into credible project and program plans while providing leadership in understanding and following program and project management standard processes.
* Developing and producing program and/or project management schedules in Microsoft Project using GPMUK tools and processes. The individual will capture all activity information, identify relationships between activities, and recommend actions to resolve schedule conflicts.
* Coordinating with Program Leads to schedule and support program control meetings & compression sessions and make schedule changes/corrections during those meetings as required. This will include analysis of data from schedule updates to explain the consequences of any changes and, working with project team members to resolve logic errors, explains changes due to updates, and recommends actions to resolve schedule problems.
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