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Emmanuel  Abiona

Emmanuel Abiona

Program Planning Manager
Västerås

Summary

Resourceful Planning Manager successful at directing multinational, cross-functional portfolios requiring fast-paced execution. Several years experience in project planning and schedule management with proven success in delivering world-class planning support for electric vehicle battery facilities.
Experienced in entire project lifecycle from project planning and initiating, project execution, commissioning, warranty and claims handling.
Offers strong analytical, planning and organizational skills to manage competing demands and ensure stakeholders satisfaction.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Program Planning Manager

Northvolt
Västerås
04.2022 - Current
  • Leading the full planning overview and setting the strategic planning direction for all CAPEX projects and programs.
  • Develop, manage and maintain overall integrated time plan for new factory to support production of A-Sample and B-sample EV battery cells.
  • Create standard operating procedures, templates and guidelines for all planning functions including schedule management, project controls, risk analysis and resource optimization.
  • Develop necessary tools for schedule quality analysis, progress monitoring, control and reporting of multiple EPCM contractors.
  • Produce necessary monthly, bi weekly and weekly reporting standards and templates to monitor and control progress of work according to baseline.
  • Run and manage scheduling coordination, both internally as well as externally with vendors leading the full planning overview and setting the strategic planning direction for all projects and programs within Labs and R&D scope.
  • Skills: Master Schedule · Project Control · Project Planning · Program Management · Program Planning · Oracle Primavera · Microsoft Project

Program Planner

Northvolt
Västerås
05.2021 - 03.2022
  • Program planning, schedule analysis and schedule development including scope breakdown using work breakdown structure WBS, activity estimation, creating well-linked, integrated master schedules.
  • Schedule analysis using critical path method, monitoring near critical activities, key milestones and project phase transitions.
  • Identify project overlaps, from risks and opportunities perspective, find synergies in resource utilization and ensure benefit realization.
  • Monitor, analyze, report and resolve program performance issues and develop mitigation plans.
  • Performing project schedule risk analysis using Monte Carlo simulations and What-if scenarios. Risk categorization and mitigation planning
  • Skills: Integrated Master Schedule · Project Control · Quantified risk assessment · Oracle Primavera P6 · Microsoft MS Project

Project Manager

ABB Industrial Automation, Process Industries. Metallurgy
Västerås
04.2017 - 04.2021
  • Responsibility for project delivery spanning project planning, project execution, commissioning, warranty and claims handling.
  • Coordinated project execution from multiple sources – engineering, purchasing, customer relations, production and logistics to ensure on time, on budget, project delivery with satisfied stake-holders.
  • Involved in several strategic supplier qualification and negotiations leading to savings in revenues and improved quality.
  • Developed, initiated and executed projects, together with R&D team to bring new product to the market while ensuring product satisfies technical specification including managing costs, schedule and performance.
  • Collaborated with general management team to ensure alignment of business strategy with project deliverables.

Development Engineer

ABB Industrial Automation, Process Industries. Metallurgy
Västerås
03.2013 - 03.2017
  • Research and development of various Magneto-hydrodynamic processes to optimize electro-magnetic stirrers in steel and aluminum production.
  • Computational multiphysics code development for fluid dynamics and electromagnetic analysis, using commercial software suites Ansys and Simulia.
  • Design optimizations, parallelization on clusters and distribution of load for improved overall simulation efficiency.

R&D Scientist

ABB Corporate Research
Västerås
03.2012 - 03.2013
  • Computational fluid dynamics simulation of subsea electrical equipment like oil cooled transformers and frequency converters, subjected to overpressure.
  • Design optimization by simulation of heat transfer and fluid flow of cooling oil under natural convection.
  • Development of prototype electrical equipment optimized for subsea applications.

Asst. Research and Development Engineer

ABB Corporate Research
Västerås
03.2011 - 03.2012
  • CFD Investigation of gas dynamics during a high-current, high-temperature arc plasma formation between two fixed electrodes
  • Modelling and Simulation of instant energy discharge in an arc-plasma induced fault breaking device using computational fluid dynamics
  • Modified technical documentation including mechanical drawings, schematics and bills of materials through engineering change notification system.

Master's Thesis Student

ABB Corporate Research
Västerås
03.2010 - 09.2010
  • Analysis and evaluation of the downstream effects of plasma arc such as wave propagation, density variations and temperature development.
  • CFD numerical calculations using Ansys Fluent and Gambit.
  • Experimental high voltage, plasma switch experimental testing for comparative studies.
  • Publication: Master's thesis - 2 Dimensional, Axis-symmetric, CFD modelling of thermal plasma.

Education

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Blekinge Tekniska Hogskola BTH
Blekinge, Sweden
09.2019 - 06.2021

Master of Science - Energy Systems

Malardalen's Hogskola
Västerås Sweden
09.2009 - 06.2011

B-Tech - Chemical Engineering

Ladoke Akintola University Of Technology
Ogbomosho, Nigeria
03.2000 - 06.2006

Skills

Project planning and development

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Basketball, Football and Music

  • Played svenska herrlaget div 5 södra - väpno IF
  • Captained ABB Basket laget 2014 to 2016

Timeline

Program Planning Manager

Northvolt
04.2022 - Current

Program Planner

Northvolt
05.2021 - 03.2022

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Blekinge Tekniska Hogskola BTH
09.2019 - 06.2021

Project Manager

ABB Industrial Automation, Process Industries. Metallurgy
04.2017 - 04.2021

Development Engineer

ABB Industrial Automation, Process Industries. Metallurgy
03.2013 - 03.2017

R&D Scientist

ABB Corporate Research
03.2012 - 03.2013

Asst. Research and Development Engineer

ABB Corporate Research
03.2011 - 03.2012

Master's Thesis Student

ABB Corporate Research
03.2010 - 09.2010

Master of Science - Energy Systems

Malardalen's Hogskola
09.2009 - 06.2011

B-Tech - Chemical Engineering

Ladoke Akintola University Of Technology
03.2000 - 06.2006
Emmanuel AbionaProgram Planning Manager