PMO Scheduling Manager

Location: Mumbai

Job Purpose

Willing to improve its operational performance, Industry sector created a common organization, named PMO. It mainly aims to improve the project execution, develop synergies between Sector Entities, generate scale of economy and optimize resources.  The PMO is supported by several pillars: Project Management (PM), Claim & Contracting, Project Control, Scheduling, Sales.

The scope of the Scheduling manager covers 8 entities; most of them are located in India, China, Poland, Finland, Germany, Belgium and USA.

Key Result Areas

At sector level, the PMO Scheduling Manager will promote a culture of planning and time management within all entities of the organization. He/She will:

• Develop and promote standardized planning methods and tools.
• Share best practices.
• Participate in the administration of planning tools (Microsoft Project Online), BI tools.
• Develop planning solutions by integrating new technological means in collaboration with the IT Business Partner.
• Ensure a technological watch and benchmark in its field of expertise.
• Participate to recruitment of new schedulers.
• Develop training tools (classroom, webinar, business case, etc.) and increase the scheduling expertise.

Key Responsibilities

At project level, together with entities and projects teams, the PMO Scheduling Manager coordinates all the strategical and operational activities related to schedule management. He/She will:

• Define with the project team the most suitable planning structure to ensure an effective follow-up of the project.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders to gather relevant information for scheduling purposes.
• List and sequence all activities according to WBS and durations (standard or estimated) ;
• Analyze project requirements and constraints to create realistic and achievable schedules.

• Implement progress update rituals through the various departments involved in the project.
• Generates forecasts, backlog reports and advances, and any other useful documentation to track and manage projects.
• Under the responsibility of the project manager, analyze and challenge the schedules (Supplier, Customer, Internal). Define and feed the corresponding indicators.
• Participate in the elaboration of the proofs of delays/non-delays in the litigation process with our suppliers/customers;
• Support the project team during dispute meetings on deadlines with the customer or suppliers.
• Evaluate current processes and recommends changes to improve planning efficiency.
• Identify and includes external interfaces (Customers, Suppliers,);
• Analyze the critical path, highlights delay and suggests options to reduce risks.
• Verify schedule consistency with delivery dates.
• Analyze the impact of a change request.
• Challenge the organization to control and reduce delays.

Qualification and Experience

• Master’s degree in project management, Business Management, or in a related field
• You have minimum 5 years’ experience in project scheduling in an industrial environment,
• Excellent organizational, time-management, and communication skills.
• Advanced proficiency in project scheduling software (ideally MS Projects).
• Extensive experience in schedule planning and management.
• Fluent in English (strong written, verbal, and proven presentation), French is a plus.
• In-depth knowledge of the scope of projects within similar industrial projects.
• Advanced ability to evaluate project progress and facilitate interventions.
• Ability to keep stakeholders informed of project timelines and changes.
• Certification as a PMI scheduling professional (PMI-SP) or Project Manager Professional (PMP) will be an advantage.

His/her soft skills are:

• Team player (team spirit & coaching), good mindset
• Information sharing – Collaboration.
• Creative, curious, open-minded, source of proposals, solution oriented
• Autonomous profile, able to work from a blank page, flexible, hands-on.
• Decision making, Problem solving, able to take initiatives.
• Assertiveness, Leadership required.
• Results oriented, structured, schedule oriented, priority management, synthetic, rigorous.
• Global viewer
• Excellent communication skills in an international context
• Ability to work under pressure, capable of working in a fast-growing environment, entrepreneur.

Who We Are         

About John Cockerill

John Cockerill India Limited an ISO 9001:2015 engineering company – formerly CMI FPE Limited was incorporated on May 28, 1986. The Belgian group Cockerill Maintenance & Ingénierie (CMI) now known as John Cockerill completed the acquisition in June 2008. John Cockerill India is the Indian entity of John Cockerill Group.

‘John Cockerill India Limited.’ John Cockerill Industry’s Indian hub and center of excellence for cold rolling mill complexes, is the world leader in the conception, manufacture, and installation of reversible cold rolling mills. It has developed a wide range of technologies in the field of processing lines, rolling mills, thermal and chemical processes. It also supplies auxiliary steel treatment equipment. John Cockerill India offers the entire product portfolio of John Cockerill Industry and is coordinating the whole range of its activities including, but not limited to local engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing. As an international specialist in industrial processes and technologies, John Cockerill Industry designs, supplies and modernizes cold rolling mills, processing lines, chemical and thermal treatment installations for the steel and the non-ferrous industry, as well as state-of-the-art heat treatment technologies for the aviation, forging and casting industry, and hydrometallurgical processes for the extraction of ores. 

John Cockerill India complements John Cockerill’s strategy for growth with minimal overlaps in products and a versatile range of technology synergies. John Cockerill India is a preferred partner to supply thousands of innovative solutions for clean, reliable, and efficient Equipments worldwide.

Based on decades of experience and successfully running references all over the world, John Cockerill Industry not only supplies greenfield and brownfield installations and equipment’s, but also provides the related services, as well as training and technical assistance. John Cockerill India's reliable and cost-effective, yet innovative solutions are always adapted to the specific needs of each and every customer.

The Company's workshop in Taloja is equipped with state-of-the-artwork centers and ensures in-house equipment production, assembly and fabrication activities that conform to the most stringent international quality and safety standards.

John Cockerill India has at its helm, a team of professional managers with international experience who are committed to taking the Indian subsidiary to new heights of excellence. John Cockerill India has a global footprint across Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe, North America, and South America, Russia and therefore complements John Cockerill’s global presence. John Cockerill India has its head office in Mumbai and two workshops outside Mumbai. The Indian entity is ISO 9001:2015 certified and employs over 500 people.

Our vision is to exceed customer expectations by delivering quality products and services in time and at competitive prices. Because each project is unique, every project has its own project management team. The customer benefits from the expertise of highly qualified specialists who have an international experience with a deeper knowledge of the customer’s environment.

The Group’s ambition is to be the leading industrial partner of international customers, to design equipment and develop its overall performance through a combination of expertise in maintenance and engineering.

The Group’s capabilities lie in Design & Engineering, Manufacturing, Erection & Commissioning and After Sales & Support.

Thanks to the cumulated experience in Engineering and Maintenance, John Cockerill India is able to assist its customers in achieving the overall performance optimization of their equipment, from their design phase to the end of their service life through Tailor-made solutions, Optimization of cost, Local relationship, Advanced training & Unique complementarities of solutions and areas of excellence.

Equal Opportunity Employer                  

John Cockerill and all John Cockerill Companies are equal opportunity employers that evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), age, marital status, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and other characteristics protected by law.