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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Closed - Process PM, Project Analyst, Project/Reporting Administrator

These contract roles will be based in Melbourne.  Expressions of interest are sought from suitably qualified applicants to be part of this important team.

Initially a 3 month contract with definite view to extension. This project could see you in the organisation for a number of years. 

The team is managing the services orders being placed on a construction company by the Infrastructure Owner. The construction company has existing BAU teams for survey, design, construct and handover. The purpose of the team is to provide a layer of assurance concerning the progress of the service orders, ensure that revisions to plan are reported when interruptions occur to the progress of a service order, and to force exception handling ensuring escalations do not stall out. There is regular (daily) reporting and ad hoc reporting. There is a significant amount of data centric work

Process PM – (process in the sense of data and process focus rather than people management focus).
o Will need exposure to infra or IT or Comms projects to be comfortable with picking up and applying the lingo (telco fibre backhaul and premise connectivity) – not to resolve technical problems.
o Need to be process focussed – able to hold the end to end process in the head, and see where problems are arising when a service order hits an issue.
o Reporting – ensure daily reports are accurate and delivered on time. Reporting draws from system and verbal sources for update and can be contradictory.
o Problem resilient – possess a focus and maturity to deal with changing priorities and deal with issues in an effective manner.
o Manage the project analyst and reporting administrator
o Excel savvy
o Systems aware – need to be able to build a quick awareness of an in house reporting systems to extract data
o Primavera exposure a bonus

Project Analyst (similar to PM however no direction to team. Focus on progress of specific regions and attending to specific data requests.)
o Will need some exposure to infra or IT or Comms projects to be comfortable with picking up and applying the lingo (telco fibre backhaul and premise connectivity) – not to resolve technical problems.
o Need to be process focussed – able to hold the end to end process in the head, and see where problems are arising when a service order hits an issue.
o Reporting – maintain daily reports for region, accuracy and timeliness are important. 
o Problem resilient – possess a focus and maturity to deal with changing priorities and deal with issues in an effective manner.
o Comfortable getting on the phone to request information and influence behaviour.
o Systems aware – need to be able to build a quick awareness of an in house reporting systems to extract data.
o Excel savvy
o Primavera exposure a bonus

Project/Reporting Administrator (Focussed on aggregating status data on service orders, preparing regular report, preparing ad hoc information reports)
o High level of proficiency to manipulate data in excel (formatting, pivots, sorting, combining, linking) – not sophisticated calculations.
o Able to convert a need for a particular cut of data described in a business sense to an excel based report.
o Maintain a physical/visual status reporting system (cards on a wall) to reflect daily service order progress.
o Will need some exposure to infra or IT or Comms projects to be comfortable with picking up and applying the lingo (telco fibre backhaul and premise connectivity) – not to resolve technical problems.
o Need to be process focussed – able to where problems are arising when a service order hits an issue.
o Problem resilient – possess a focus and maturity to deal with changing priorities and deal with issues in an effective manner.
o Comfortable getting on the phone to request information and influence behaviour.
o Systems aware – need to be able to build a quick awareness of an in house reporting systems to extract data.
o Primavera exposure a bonus.