Project Support Officer

European Council for Nuclear Research

Geneva, Switzerland

The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a proposed underground facility for a third-generation gravitational-wave observatory. Building on the success of Advanced Virgo and Advanced LIGO, which detected merging black holes and neutron stars, ET will have much higher sensitivity. ET will enable exploration of the Universe's gravitational waves back to the cosmological dark ages, offering insights into fundamental physics and cosmology.

Responsibilities:

  • Support the collaboration agreement technical coordinators to manage the various related activities, especially the interfaces between stakeholders.
  • Support the definition of schedules from the system level to the master schedule, enabling strategic planning.
  • Understand, analyse, and schedule installation activities to propose an optimal sequence, including logistics and safety compliance related to potential co-activities by collaborating with relevant safety stakeholders.
  • Adapt and apply CERN methodology and experience.
  • Support the definition of the necessary reference technical documentation and the editing of the schedule management plan, identifying processes, procedures and roles.
  • Define how to implement schedule analysis techniques, when necessary, like PERT (Programme Evaluation and Review Technique) or RBSA (Risk-Based Schedule Analysis).
  • Define procedures, as far as the schedule is concerned, for the Earned Value Management application.
  • Prepare documentation and facilitate communication between stakeholders, ensuring clear and efficient collaboration.
  • Introduce correct schedule performance metrics (schedule variance, KPI, performance index, % completion, etc).

Requirements:

  • You have a professional background in Engineering (or a related field) and have either.
  • Master's degree with 2 to 6 years of post-graduation professional experience.
  • PhD with no more than 3 years of post-graduation professional experience.
  • You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
  • Demonstrated understanding of technical challenges and project management.
  • Experience in project coordination, planning, or technical project support.
  • Organisational, scheduling, and analytical skills.
  • Experience in working with project planning tools and data analysis (e.g., MS Project, Oracle database management, VBA, Python, etc).
  • Stakeholders' management in an international environment.
  • Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

Source: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/CERN/744000070016560