Sr. Principal Program Planning and Scheduling Analyst

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

This role is for a Sr. Principal Program Planning Scheduling Analyst at Northrop Grumman, focusing on developing and managing integrated master plans and schedules for programs. It involves horizontal and vertical integration across functional groups, risk analysis, and using project management techniques like Gantt, PERT, and Earned Value Management (EVM). Requires a Bachelor's degree with 8 years of experience or a Master's with 6 years, and an active DoD Secret clearance.

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) practices
  • program planning
  • scheduling
  • DoD Secret clearance

Nice to have

  • material cost management
  • SAP
  • MPM
  • COBRA

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret clearance
  • DoD Secret clearance