Principal or Sr Principal Program Planning and Scheduling Analyst

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Melbourne, FL +1 · Business Management Mult-Func

This role is for a Principal or Senior Principal Program Planning Scheduling Analyst at Northrop Grumman. The primary responsibilities include preparing, developing, and coordinating integrated master plans and schedules, ensuring horizontal and vertical integration across functional groups, tracking plans, performing risk analysis, and resolving conflicts. The role requires intermediate to advanced skills in MS Project and experience with Earned Value Management (EVM). A Secret clearance is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Prepares, develops and coordinates the integrated master plan and integrated master schedule to meet all program objectives
  2. Ensures major projects and program schedules and plans are horizontally and vertically integrated across company functional groups including finance, engineering, material, manufacturing, and quality
  3. Tracks plans and schedules, performs risk analysis, identifies and resolves critical path and network logic conflicts
  4. Uses 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

Skills

Required

  • MS Project
  • Earned Value Management (EVM)
  • program planning
  • scheduling

Nice to have

  • SAP
  • MPM
  • COBRA
  • material cost management

What the JD emphasized

  • active DoD Secret clearance