Hannah is a Project Manager with Areva NP, a multi-national company that provides products and services to nuclear power plants across the world. After reviewing incoming contracts, Hannah’s role as the planner is to then develop the budget, schedule, and scope baseline for the necessary work. It’s this pre-production that will keep her team efficient and on-schedule.
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>> My name is Hannah Harrington, and I'm a project manager for Ariba. Ariba provides engineering services to nuclear power utilities. The plants need various services and products in order to ensure that they're running as efficiently as possible, and they can't always do that with what they have in house, so they reach out to us to revive the various innovative products that we offer or to pull in some additional engineering work, additional engineering services, get new ideas, get new breath in there. Right now we are replacing a reactor coolant pump motor for one of our customers. We're also upgrading refueling bridges. So these projects involve all disciplines of engineering pulling it together to get the design in place to update all the various effective documents and identify the plant impacts and give the customer a fully developed package so that then they can install the package during their next refueling outage or outside of the outage as planned. When we receive the notice of award usually via contract, the first phone call I get is saying that the contract needs to be reviewed. I work with the proposal manager to ensure that the contract identifies and lays out everything as we had scoped the project out. Once that goes, then I start the planning phase. So we work through developing the schedule, developing the budget baseline, developing the scope baseline. We have a kickoff internally with our teams to make sure the roles and responsibilities are laid out, and everyone understands how we're planning this project. Safety is the utmost importance. We've seen in the past in other countries what can happen if safety isn't at the forefront of everyone's mind and everything we go into from the simplest meeting to these full-scale multiyear, multi-million dollar projects, safety is always the first thing we talk about. It's the first thing we consider, and it's how we base all of our decisions. [ Silence ]
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