Budget & schedule monitoring & control (ATS-DO-2025-12-GRAE)

Job Description

Your responsibilities

The HL-LHC (HiLumi) Project is a major upgrade of the LHC accelerator, increasing the integrated luminosity over the first 10 years of collisions by a factor 10 with respect to the LHC design goal. Making use of cutting-edge technologies for the accelerator's main elements, the project foresees also significant expansion of underground infrastructure. The project is structured in 20 work-packages (WP) of budget ranging from some millions to some hundreds million CHF, for a total budget above 1,150 millions of CHF. Collaborations with European and international institutes cover a considerable part of the scope, for an in-kind budget of 100MCHF.

As successful candidate for a ORIGIN position you will :

• Join the Monitoring & Control Office in the Planning section of HL-LHC.
• Act as the link-person to several HiLumi work-packages.
• Structure activities in EVM.
• Manage cost change processes and reprofile expenses.
• Project real cost vs. planned cost.
• Monitor WP schedule, collaboration, and purchasing plan.
• Assess cost, performance, and schedule risks.
• Implement financial and schedule changes.
• Prepare reports, minutes, and EVM metrics for Project Steering Meetings.
• Contribute to the annual Cost & Schedule review.
• Take and propagate minutes for relevant Project Steering Meetings.

The position presents opportunities for learning and implementing Project management tools and processes in the exciting framework of one of the largest accelerator technologies projects on the scene, in a truly international environment.

Your profile

Skills

• With a technical-scientific background, you have a master in engineering, physics-chemistry, or life science. You have earned a positive experience in project management (both budget and schedule management), either in the framework of your projects in academic years, or in your initial work experience.
• The candidate should be rigorous, precise and eager to learn and innovate; have a passion for complexity; excellent self-management and self-organization and an acute sense of responsibility; strong interpersonal skills and accomplished written and oral communication in English.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State .
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in engineering, physics, chemistry, science (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is either a Bachelor's or Master's degree.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Applicants without University degree are not eligible.
• Applicants with a PhD are not eligible.

Additional Information

Job closing date: 27th February 2025 at 23:59 PM CET (midnight)

Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Target start date: 01-April-2025

Job reference: ATS-DO-2025-12-GRAE

Field of work: Support Services (Finance, HR, Legal, Procurement)

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 5196  and 5716  Swiss Francs (net of tax).
• Coverage by CERN's comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Depending on your individual circumstances: installation grant; family, child and infant allowances; payment of travel expenses at the beginning and end of contract.
• 30 days of paid leave per year.
• On-the-job and formal training at CERN as well as in-house language courses for English and/or French.

About us

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter - fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.

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