Primavera Programme / Project Management Analyst / Engineer

Encore Technical Solutions (Automotive, Engineering & Technical Recruitment) are currently recruiting for a Primavera Programme/Project Management Analyst/Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Job Description For Vacancy No: 221881B2

Consultant: Mike Bryan

Company Profile: Our client has been a manufacturer of diesel engines and power solutions for over 75 years, to the highest levels of performance and reliability. They have grown to become one of the leading suppliers of diesel and gas engines in the power solutions market.

Job Location: Cambridgeshire

Job Position: Primavera Programme / Project Management Analyst / Engineer

Department: Projects

Job Status: Contract

Job Profile:

A project management professional committed to delivering programs on-time and within budget by improving the effectiveness of project teams through the application of professionally accepted program and project management methods, techniques, and tools.

Essential Skills, Experience & Qualifications:

A four year college or university degree is highly preferred, but more experience may be substituted.

Considerable job-related experience in program management with experience in Engineering, project management or NPI is highly desirable.

Must have strong interpersonal skills including excellent communication skills, strong meeting facilitation skills, and the ability to work well in a team environment.

Must possess sound knowledge of project management software (MS Project required, Primavera highly desirable), MS Office (Excel/Word/Powerpoint), Adobe Acrobat, and Web Publishing tools.

Good Excel skills are vital (complex formulas, linking multiple worksheets, pivot tables, graphs).

Project resource loading/portfolio resource management and project/portfolio cost management experience is highly desirable.

Previous experience in a research environment or with engines would be beneficial but is not required.

You will have some relevant project management experience and will require limited supervision for most duties

This position requires a very good understanding of program and project management tools & processes.

Requires ability to learn Company project accounting systems and produce project-related financial reports

Job Profile:

You will support Energy & Transportation research projects that may be somewhat complex in nature.

You will provide facilitation for project teams and will lead control meetings and may lead chartering/planning sessions for smaller projects.

You may assist senior coordinators with larger, more complex chartering/planning sessions.

Maintain program level issues/action logs, risk registers, scope change requests/logs, program schedules, and program cost tracking.

Maintain accurate resource-loaded project schedules with some follow-up by a team lead or Program Management Supervisor to ensure data quality.

You will capture project information, analyses data from schedule updates (e.g. critical path, resource histograms), works with project team members to resolve logic errors, helps explain changes due to updates, and updates plan according to actions taken by the project team to resolve schedule problems.

Create report packages and communicates project status.

Rate: Up to £30 per hour on a limited company basis.