Principal Program Planner Jobs

Job Title: Remote - Principal Program Planner

Location: Tucson, Arizona

Duration:6Months Contract

Clearance Required:Yes

Active Secret Clearance required

Position comments:

This is an on-site role in Tucson, AZ

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• Understands, can create, use and recommend appropriate alternative/supplemental program management plans/artifacts (HUM, MPS, First Unit Flow), to help the program team understand and manage the plan.
• Partner with SMEs, explain Schedule Risk Analysis results to program teams, understand SRA concepts and theory, with the ability to interpret results to the program team and integrated mitigation plans into the IMS and schedule risks into the Risk Management process.
• Ability to understand the program technical and programmatic solution, and partnering with the program team, lead the integration of that solution into the IMS baseline plan ensuring the cost, schedule, and technical requirements are fully integrated into the execution plan.
• Lead creation and maintenance of compliant Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) on requirements provided by the customer that achieve necessary cost and schedule integration.
• Lead and support the team to ensure the program plan and IMS is developed consistent with IPDS and program life cycle.
• Provides weekly and monthly planning metrics on schedule status, baseline maintenance, critical path analysis, and schedule variance analysis and network logic validation, employing appropriate Earned Value Management System processes. Mentor and train junior planners
• Must be able to review the IMS planned work for accuracy, identifying missing work or work that is planned improperly.

Required Skill Set :

• Prior work experience with development and maintenance of Integrated Master Schedules in a highly matrixed Organization.
• Prior work experience with managing/leading/integrating scheduling and EVMS techniques (or similar) principles for project teams. Current, active, Secret or higher U.S. security clearance.
• Prior work experience using software designed for creating and maintaining industry related schedules (MS Project, Primavera, Open Plan, or similar scheduling software).

Desired Skills Set :

• Demonstrated ability to manage/lead/teach and support proper scheduling and EVMS techniques, principles for project personnel or teams of varying size and backgrounds.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret/analyze SRA results, program schedule risk/opportunity drivers and schedule probability of success.
• Demonstrated ability to collaboration with Planning and functional organization SMEs to support their program teams.
• Be able to identify and drive process improvement, ability to work with the team to develop solutions and solve problems.
• Understanding of hardware and software development life-cycle, exposure to agile methodologies.
• Prior work experience with Integrated Product Development System (IPDS) Demonstrated ability to facilitate the effective integration and maintenance in the IMS of technical, schedule and cost in an EVMS environment.
• Demonstrate the ability to understand different perspectives and ask right questions ensuring IMS integrity.
• Demonstrated ability to understand the program technical and programmatic solution and lead integration and modelling of that solution into the IMS.
• Previous project management experience and/or project management certification. Familiarity with APEX financial systems.
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of Cost Estimating/BOE generation.

Education Qualification :

• Years of Experience Required (if any): 8+ years of applicable Planner or Program Management experience