Project Management Office Specialist LR08

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The Project Management Office (PMO) provides resources, support, knowledge and coaching to the customer and product project management team to ensure a better performance along the project lifecycle. At this moment the PMO department making steps forward to increase the maturity. So the PMO department will beating the rhythm on the project milestones and will serve Thales Naval by providing the expertise, know-how, services and continuously striving to increase the data quality to ensure a better performance along project lifecycle in one predictable way with clear awareness and reliable insight on cost, time and quality.

About the job

Within this role, you are responsible for one or multiple projects and you have day-to-day reporting responsibilities to your project managers. You are managing project data and ensuring the Thales NL systems accurately reflect the current state so that problems can be anticipated and the project can be managed as effectively as possible.

In addition to being responsible for schedule accuracy, you are also tracking risks, cost variances, and any other KPIs that will aid transparency on project progress. With your skills, experience and personality, you will be able to connect people, challenge the project office team and the project managers in achieving the agreed deliverables. Moreover, you act as the sparring partner of the Project Manager.

Your main tasks will include:

• Designing and maintaining a closed network schedule upon the milestones including coordination of the resources and budgets;

• Delivering all PMO-tasks to support the project (e.g. PERT, Risk & Opportunity management, Project Control, Training & Coaching);

• Tracking all internal and external milestones for the project and the events they are dependent on;

• Identifying the deliverables, contents and follow them through the project with rescheduling as necessary;

• Delivering metrics and analyses to the Project Manager to aid effective project management; pro-actively support the Project Manager and Work Package Manager in reaching the agreed deliverables;

• Performing various analyzes, calculations and cost consolidations (e.g. EAC validation, Earned Value Management, SPI/CPI, KPIs).

What you’ll bring

If you are a creative, open, flexible team player with great communication skills in fluent Dutch and English, then you might be the person we are looking for.

• You have completed a Bachelor’s degree.

• You have experience with project planning and scheduling in a planning tool (e.g. Primavera);

• Preferably you are IPMA D (or other) certified.

Wherever your passion lies, Thales can help you make the best use of your skills and creativity. As a contractor at Thales, you can expect to experience:

• An interesting job within a team of experts in an international high-tech environment.

• Room for and attention to personal development and personal initiative.

• The opportunity to grow within the organization, whether in a technical, managerial, commercial or international capacity.

• A flexible work environment with a focus on maintaining a good work-life balance.

Thales offers untold opportunities to take part in fascinating projects and overcome ambitious human and technological challenges. As a contractor, you’ll be part of a community of experts bringing together innovations from the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace. Collaborating to find solutions to the biggest challenges in the most difficult conditions.

Drawing on a diversity of expertise, perspectives and cultures, we are able to provide the best possible solutions to our customers. Together, we can harness the extraordinary power of technology to build a future we can all trust.

Randstad, as the EMEA Thales talent acquisition partner, is responsible for finding and contracting talent for the contingent roles at Thales. If you are selected for a role you will be engaged or employed by one of the Randstad recruitment companies in EMEA and will not be an employee of Thales.

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This position offers a one-year contract with the opportunity to transition to a permanent contract at Thales Nederland after the first year.

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