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Engineering Program Planner
Inglewood, CA 90302 US
Job Description
SCOPE
- Interpret contract requirements and objectives to create a thorough IMS that is executable and meets customer, quality and contract requirements
- Gather individual program steps, durations, dependencies, and other details from appropriate program stakeholders to assemble into cohesive IMS that maps development programs from contract award to production handoff
- Provide recommendations and support to Technical Program Managers by employing best practices to ensure timely and accurate status/forecasting of work
- Analyze program critical paths and facilitate root cause assessments to baseline execution variances
- Recommend actions to program management based upon program metrics, trends and variances
- Evaluate schedules for IMS quality according to DCMA requirements and suggest improvements to processes
- Independently perform as program IMS lead in program reviews and meetings
- Support program risk/opportunity analysis as it relates to the IMS
- Lead the development and delivery of Schedule Risk Assessments and IMS baselines across functional areas
- Actively communicate schedule dependencies, risks and mitigation plans to internal and external customers; Be able to clearly explain the IMS assumptions and dependencies to leadership
- Develop master phasing schedules for executive review
- Support proposal planning and development
- Ad hoc analysis and what-if scenario planning
Job Requirements
- A Bachelors Degree Finance, Business, Management or Engineering or equivalent experience and minimum 5 years relevant experience in program planning or program management
- Advanced knowledge of MS Project and experience developing integrated, resource-loaded master schedules across a portfolio of programs
- Critical thinker who can offer recommendations for different ways to view program performance and execution to facilitate decision making
- Demonstrated proficiency in schedule analysis. Experience analyzing for IMS quality (DCMA IMS requirements) and ability to produce valid critical paths, applying root cause analysis to variance recovery.
- Knowledge in the application of integrated cost/schedule methods
- Strong communication skills
- Proficiency in MS Office Programs (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
- Strong creative problem-solving, collaboration, critical thinking, and time management skills
- Organized and self-motivated with excellent verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to efficiently and effectively manage multiple priorities while meeting program deadlines
- US Citizenship
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