Responsible for applying time/cost management techniques for various projects and initiatives by establishing and/or monitoring baselines plans to ensure works are being done on-time, under-budget, and to reduce the risks associated with delays and cost overruns in various levels of the projects and various stages of the Project life cycle.
- Collect from respective projects managers baseline information for projects and initiatives (Internal amp; External) overseen by the Organizational Excellence Group.
- Establish, maintain, follow up, and report on the Organizational Excellence (OE) Portfolio of Projects amp; initiatives (The Master Program)
- For projects/engagements managed by 3rd party, become familiar with the contracts/agreements terms and approved schedules and budgets for the contracted projects/initiatives.
- Oversea the OE Master Program and assess on a weekly basis or as required the health of such projects/initiatives.
- Develop and implement Projects’ Schedules using Primavera P6 EPPM (both in Client amp; Web Based) and/or MS Project.
- Evaluate with other departments’ planners (or project leads/managers) the inter-relationship of these projects and assist in the review of project schedules, budgets, and risks.
- Coordination among various departments and disciplines to ensure proper handling of projects’ interface activities, and come up with coherent and consistent projects’ plans.
- Continuous maintenance and updating of the Project Planning, Scheduling amp; Control System.
Execute any other ad-hoc activities as required by the head of EPMO and mandated by the business.
- Monitor, track, and distribute all information required for projects/initiatives schedules and reports
- Publish Regular progress updates for previous periods along with periodic look-ahead and past due schedules.
- Develop the OE Master Program customized reports in Primavera P6 EPPM for monitoring and analyzing performance.
- Develop and Publish the Master Program Performance Dashboard on Microsoft Power BI.
- Participate in the assessment amp; review of project issues with respect to time schedules (i.e. product/service providers claims, delays by service providers, etc). Provide all data to support AIMS’s position.
- Facilitate the assembly and submission of the monthly report for the OE Master Program (or at any other frequency as required by the Head of EPMO)
- Periodic reporting for the projects’ progresses to cover all aspects of the project
- Review projects/initiatives weekly schedule updates prior to progress meetings and identify issues of concern regarding the progress of work and advising the Head of EPMO accordingly.
- Request, Review, Analyze, and/or Approve /reject projects’ progress reports to be received from various parties and raise comments/concerns and distribute accordingly.
- When required, attend meetings with contractors/consultants/service providers (external) and projects/initiatives owners (internal) and review schedules and budget updates.
- Execution of planning and production of all program requirements for construction and business projects including associated updating and reporting functions.
- Assist in the development of projects’ cash flow projections.
- Generating and analyzing the Projects’ S-Curves for cash outflows and other resources to come up with comprehensive performance analysis for schedule, resources and cost by utilizing the EVM technique.
- Monitoring the activities/Tasks owners’ works against the approved programs of works (planned vs. actual) .
- Develop corporate and departmental procedures for developing projects’ plans, monitoring/appraising status of projects, and reporting performance thru the development of dashboards and customized reports.
- Coach planning amp; cost control specialists/officers at subordinate levels in order to integrate them into the work and to train them to ensure their continuous skill level improvement
- Ability to instill trust, motivate, and work with other people
- Develop a collaborative relationship with other departments and areas
- Establish trust and reputation within the organization, and become a partner for improvement
- Develop relationship with the various departments to drive sustainable impact
- Educate other departments’ staff on planning techniques
- Be looked at and considered as a highly regarded and competent internal consultant for Project Planning amp; PM Methodologies.
Requirements
- Knowledge of PMI-Project Management Book of Knowledge (BoK)
- Expert user of Primavera, MS Projects, and MS Power BI is a must.
- Knowledge of Time amp; Cost Management Techniques implemented at the project and functional departments’ leve