Lead Project Management Specialist - Project Planning

Lead Project Management Specialist - Project Planning

Baker Hughes

Florence, Italy

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Lead Project Planning Specialist will be collaborating with others to build the best solutions for our business. As a Project Planner, you will be responsible for project delivery, profit & loss accountability and customer satisfaction through management of project related activities and resources.

Being a Lead Project Planning Specialist, you will be responsible for:

• Creating project plan, providing target dates and timing base line to involved functions, prioritizing critical tasks and constraints, making sure they are accurately integrated into project planning scenario;
• Evaluating and analyzing jointly risks and issues affecting project results and identifying actions to shorten execution and delivery lead­time;
• Guaranteeing other functions have access to accurate reports and projections and relevant documents are available for the customer;
• Updating and reviewing the Project Schedule, assessing and verifying the activities progress, identifying current or future risks, and proposing solutions to mitigate them;
• Maintaining the progress & main schedule risks for each project and regularly communicate updates to his/her manager;
• Working closely with internal functions and site team, preparing when needed mitigation plan;
• Showing summary indicators such as summary schedules, forecast milestones, project KPI and prepare high level presentations for management and customer reviews;
• Keeping track of project financial milestones related to billing & sales events, preparing forecast projections and target Vs actual gap analysis;
• Monitoring fulfillment activities, certifying completeness KPIs during the project closure phase until the hand off to Site operations team;
• In case of site execution, planning and controlling site installation activities from the site opening to the final commissioning of the plant.

​Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role, you will have a:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited university or college;
• Excellent project management skills, experience with Agile methodologies is advantageous;
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams;
• Very good organizational and problem-solving skills. Ability to work in an exciting environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously;
• Very good knowledge of O365 apps (at least very good at MS Excel, experience with Sharepoint, PowerApps, Forms and Flow), knowledge of systems such as Oracle ERP and Primavera P6 is advantageous;
• Good knowledge/experience in Lean Six Sigma;
• Strong oral and written communication skills;
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills;
• Ability to influence others and lead small teams. Lead initiatives of moderate scope and impact. Ability to coordinate several projects simultaneously. Effective problem identification and solution skills. Proven analytical and organizational ability.