Climb to new heights on your journey when you start. Defining Possible with Northrop Grumman. Enjoy a purposeful career in aeronautics that is crucial to the way we connect and protect our world across land, sea, and air. Bring your experience and take advantage of this opportunity to discover how you can start to push past possible and achieve your goals today. Enjoy a diverse, collaborative environment with professionals across the nation ready to help launch your career. Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Senior Principal Program Planning Scheduling Analyst to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be initially located in El Segundo, CA, and eventually transition to Melbourne, FL in approximately 2 years. The selected candidate will be supporting classified programs providing schedule management support. You will work with multiple engineers/control account managers (CAMs) and program leadership to develop program schedules for one or more programs. Essential Functions:
Prepares, develops and coordinates the integrated master plan and integrated master schedule to meet all program objectives
Coordinate schedule development with multiple functional groups such as finance, engineering, material, manufacturing, and quality
Ensure program schedules are horizontally and vertically integrated.Implement scheduling best practices including DCMA 14-point and IPMR DI-MGMT-8186
Work with Earned Value Management System (EVMS)
Perform Critical Path Analysis
Perform Schedule Risk Assessment (SRA)
Review and analyze Schedule Performance and Health Metrics
Provide weekly status and reporting
Create, maintain and validate Schedule data
Identify and resolve critical path and network logic conflicts
Utilize Gantt, milestone charts, and other project management techniques to gauge progress and identify performance variance
The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, collaborative/team settings across all levels.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree with 10 years of experience in Planning/Scheduling, Program Management, and/or Business Management, or a Master's degree with 8 years of stated experience
Active Secret Clearance, awarded/reviewed within the last 5 years, and the ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access
Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM)
Preferred Qualifications:
Aircraft Development Experience
High level of skill and experience with Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA) and Microsoft Project and Microsoft Office Suite
Knowledge of various NGAS reporting systems (SAP, MRP, Business Warehouse)
Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.
