Principal / Sr Principal Program Planning and Scheduling Analyst

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

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal / Sr Principal Program Planning Scheduling Analyst to join their team in Melbourne, Florida. The role involves 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. Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM), Microsoft Office Suite, and Microsoft Project is required. A Secret clearance is also necessary.

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

  • Bachelor's Degree with 5 years of business, finance, accounting, program control and/or similar industry related fields experience OR a Master's Degree with 3 years of business, finance, accounting, program control and/or similar industry related fields experience OR Associate's Degree with 7 years of business, finance, accounting, program control and/or similar industry related fields experience OR High School Diploma/GED with 9 years of business, finance, accounting, program control and/or similar industry related fields experience
  • Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM)
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Microsoft Project
  • Ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated US government Secret Clearance

Nice to have

  • Aerospace/Defense Industry experience
  • Excel Macro/VBA Skills
  • Experience in Deltek Cobra
  • Experience in Deltek Acumen Risk

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret Clearance