Job Details

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr. Principal Program Planning and Scheduling Analyst or Principal Program Planning and Scheduling Analyst for our Business Unit, Armament Systems, located in Plymouth, MN or Telecommute.

Armament Systems specializes in the development and production of Ammunition, Guns and Precision Guidance Ordinance.

Responsibilities:

• Prepares, develops and coordinates the integrated master plan and integrated master schedule.
• Ensures projects are horizontally and vertically integrated across functional groups including finance, engineering, material, manufacturing and quality.
• Supports the organization by managing and coordinating program schedules that support meeting our customer's goals and expectations.
• Responsible for supporting their respective programs by closely working with the Program Manager(s), Material Program Manager(s) and other key program personnel on schedule requirements.
• Understands overall requirements of the proposal, design, procurement, manufacturing and testing as they apply to specific programs and generate schedules capable of tracking all these activities.
• Responsible for analyzing schedules at least weekly to ensure program requirements are being met.
• Monitors the schedules and reports status to the Program Manager and appropriate IPT leads.
• Helps to prioritize and expedite tasks as necessary to ensure the schedule requirements are fulfilled.
• Schedules must be accurate and maintained from program inception through contract closeout.
• Identifies and resolves critical path and network logic conflicts.
• Utilizes Gantt, PERT, milestone charts, earned value management (EVMS) and other project management techniques to gauge progress and identify performance variances to focus on critical areas.
• Coordinate with the Program Manager on financial reports, quarterly EAC's and all EVMS requirements.

• 9 years of work experience. Would consider a BA or BS degree with 5 years of work experience, MS with 3 years of experience.
• 3-5 years of scheduling experience.
• Excellent math and communication skills.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
• Minor domestic travel required. Oversea travel opportunities may exist.
• Must be a US Citizen and able to acquire security clearance.
• Able to travel up to 10% of the time.

• MBA preferred
• Thorough working knowledge of precedence diagramming scheduling methods, critical path methods, and all aspects of network logic and diagraming
• Thorough understanding of 14-point schedule health and strength assessment tools
• Thorough understanding of EVMS
• Capable of building an IMP/ IMS for large programs with complicated assemblies and multiple locations
• Thorough understanding of Open Plan and Microsoft Project tools
• Thorough understanding of the interface requirements between Open Plan and Cobra
• Thorough understanding of Schedule Risk Analysis

• 12 years of work experience. Would consider a BA or BS degree with 8 years of work experience, MS with 5 years of experience.
• 3-5 years of scheduling experience.
• Excellent math and communication skills.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
• Minor domestic travel required. Oversea travel opportunities may exist.
• Must be a US Citizen and able to acquire security clearance.
• Able to travel up to 10% of the time.

• MBA preferred
• Thorough working knowledge of precedence diagramming scheduling methods, critical path methods, and all aspects of network logic and diagraming
• Thorough understanding of 14-point schedule health and strength assessment tools
• Thorough understanding of EVMS
• Capable of building an IMP/ IMS for large programs with complicated assemblies and multiple locations
• Thorough understanding of Open Plan and Microsoft Project tools
• Thorough understanding of the interface requirements between Open Plan and Cobra
• Thorough understanding of Schedule Risk Analysis