Category: Business ManagementLocation: Northridge CA, United States of AmericaCitizenship Required: United States CitizenshipClearance Type: SecretTelecommute: Yes May Consider Occasional/Part-Time Teleworking for this positionShift: 1st Shift (United States of America)Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the TimePositions Available: 1At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people’s lives around the world today, and for generations to come.
Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation’s history from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon.
We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way.
Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible.
Our employees are not only part of history, they’re making history.Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is currently seeking a Principal Program Planning Scheduling Analyst (Level 3) to join our Advanced Weapons group in Northridge, CA.
Job Responsibilities:Ensure major Projects and Programs Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) and plans are horizontally and vertically integrated across company functional groups including finance, engineering, material, manufacturing, and quality.Monitor and measure program progress; ensure the accuracy of program planning data that is used in the execution of projects through the use of milestones, deliverables, and vertical and horizontal integration.
Support integrated baseline reviews.Perform monthly IMS status and conduct schedule integrity checks, correcting schedule when necessary.Maintain Baseline IMS through change control process.
Perform change analysis to determine the schedule impact to the program.
Ensure proper documentation and traceability is in place.Provide planning support for programs including budgeting, performance monitoring, and analysis reporting.Utilize Gantt, PERT, milestone charts, earned value management and other project management techniques to gauge progress and identify performance variances to facilitate focus and intervention on critical areas.Engage with the Program Team to perform thorough project analysis showing knowledge and understanding of the program and the principles of EVMS, and suggests/creates/implements work around to enhance cost and schedule performance.Perform risk analyses, and identify and resolve critical path and network logic conflicts.Understand numerous facets of scheduling and contribute to the development of new scheduling concepts, techniques and standards.Provide interface/support to program office, IPT leads/CAMs and less experienced schedulers to achieve program objectives.Support new business proposal providing recommendations on schedule methodologies and proposal strategies and develop an IMP and IMS.Basic Qualifications:Bachelor’s degree with 6 years professional related experience – OR – a Master’s degree with 4 years of professional related experience.4 years of project scheduling experience using Microsoft Project or other related scheduling tool.4 years of experience using MS Office Suite, specifically Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.Working knowledge of EVMS guidelines and processes.Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance.Preferred Qualifications:6 years of project scheduling experience and expert proficiency in Microsoft Project as demonstrated by an understanding of the tool’s properties and functions, including: exports and imports, multi-project consolidation, inter-project linkage, ability to create a variety of views, tables, filters and reports.Experience using Schedule Health Analysis tools and Schedule Risk Assessment tools.Experience with Milestone Pro or other milestone tool.Experience with of EVMS surveillance and validation reviews.Experience with Jira and understanding of Agile methodology/concepts.Salary Range: 83600 125400Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.
Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce.
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