Principal Specialist, Program Cost Controls Scheduler; Onsite

Principal Program Schedule Analyst

This position is for a Principal Program Schedule Analyst who will interface and work with the Program Management Office, Engineering, and Operations. The analyst will provide guidance and analysis in the areas of Project Management, Budgeting, Scheduling, and Variance Analysis, and will become an integral part of the Program Management Team, providing advice, consultation, and analysis with regard to creation and execution of the program plan.

• Support scheduling activities of programs that are relatively low in risk and complexity or part of larger programs.
• Monitor and report performance against plans to ensure contractual, cost and schedule objectives are met, working closely with the cost analyst.
• Understand earned value management practices and procedures, scheduling fundamentals and system tool usage such as SAP and Microsoft products.
• Contribute to the completion of organizational projects and goals.
• Develop solutions to a variety of problems.
• Utilize technical knowledge and industry scheduling practices, techniques, and standards.
• Work with senior specialists to prepare, develop and coordinate the integrated master plan and integrated master schedule to meet program objectives.
• Ensure major projects are integrated across company functional groups including Finance, Engineering, Manufacturing, Logistics, Quality, etc.
• Track plans and schedules, solicit regular updates, identify and resolve critical path and network logic conflicts.
• Use milestone charts, earned value management, and other project management techniques to gauge progress and identify performance variances.
• Work in parallel with the cost analyst to reconcile cost and schedule, correct mismatched items and address root causes.
• Contribute ideas for training materials and suggest process or tool enhancements.
• Provide experience with integrated schedules and logic networks using Microsoft Project software or the ability to learn this tool.
• Have background with Microsoft Office applications:
  Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
• Understand and comply with requirements in DI-MGMT-81861C, DCMA Schedule Assessment Guide and Planning and Scheduling Excellence Guide.
• Abide by company policies and procedures, with special attention to ethics and standards of business conduct.
• Maintain strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience or an advanced degree in a related field with minimum 3 years of experience.
• Experience with EVMS.
• Experience with Microsoft products.

• Experience with Program Finance.
• Experience with Program Scheduling.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.
• Generous 401(k) plan with employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Student Loan Repayment Program.
• Life insurance and disability coverage.
• Optional coverages such as pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life, accident, critical illness insurance, group legal,  protection.
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits.
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning.
• Adoption Assistance.
• Autism Benefit.
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions.
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program.
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits.
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services.
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified individuals with a disability and protected veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.