Principal Program Planning Analyst/scheduler

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Linthicum Heights, MD +1 · Business Management Mult-Func

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal Program Planning Analyst/Scheduler to join their Scheduling Center of Excellence. The role involves coordinating with engineering and operations teams to develop and control program schedule baselines, manage cost, schedule, and technical performance, and perform schedule risk analyses using project scheduling software. Requires a Bachelor's degree with 5 years of experience or equivalent, proficiency in scheduling tools like Microsoft Project or Oracle P6, and a Secret security clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Apply knowledge of product development planning to establish and control the program schedule baseline; coordinate with a multifunctional teams to update status for management decision making on complex development and production programs.
  2. Coordinate with business management and project management staff to develop an integrated program measurement baseline to manage cost, schedule and technical performance of the program
  3. Use project scheduling software to plan and gauge progress against the plan. Identifies performance variances to facilitate focus and intervention on critical areas with the technical (engineering and operations) leads. Works with the program team to develop courses of action and risk mitigation strategies to address performance issues.
  4. Perform thorough project analysis through metrics reviews and predictive analysis to enhance cost, schedule and technical performance.
  5. Perform Schedule risk analyses and works with the program manager to resolve risky schedules, critical path issues and network logic conflicts.

Skills

Required

  • Program scheduling experience using Microsoft Project, Oracle P6, Deltek Open Plan or other related scheduling tool
  • MS Office Suite, specifically Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
  • Ability to travel domestically 10% of the time
  • US Citizenship is required
  • Current, active DoW Secret security clearance is required

Nice to have

  • Business Management, Industrial Engineering, Finance, Operations Management, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field
  • Experience with Schedule Analytics and Schedule Risk Assessment tools
  • Working knowledge of EVMS guidelines and processes

What the JD emphasized

  • Current, active DoW Secret security clearance is required.