Principal Production Planning​/Scheduler

Requisition : R

• Category: Manufacturing and Production

• Location: Sierra Vista, Arizona, United States of America | Palmdale, California, United States of America | San Diego, California, United States of America | Saint Augustine, Florida, United States of America | Roy, Utah, United States of America

• Clearance Type: Secret

• Telecommute: No - Teleworking not available for this position

• Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)

• Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time

• Positions Available: 1

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon.

We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

We are looking for you to join our team as Principal Program Planning Analyst/SCHEDULER based out of Sierra Vista, AZ. Additional Locations:
Palmdale, CA, Roy, Utah, St Augustine, FL, Rancho Bernardo, CA

This position offers the 9/80 work schedule.

What You’ll Get to Do:

The Planner/Scheduler will be hired to support the HALE Technical Publications team and placed on programs within the Aeronautics Systems (AS) Sector. The AS Technical Publications team supports personnel professional development and progression.

The Planner/Scheduler is responsible for coordinating with Logistics, Engineering and Technical Publications teams to decompose scope and develop multiple program schedule baselines. This position will work within a team environment consisting of management and supporting staff.

The ideal candidate will have strong teambuilding skills, exhibit strong interpersonal skills, and possess comprehensive verbal and written communication/presentation skills.

Roles and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Apply knowledge of product development planning to establish and control the program schedule baseline; coordinate with the various Managers to update status for management decision making on complex development and production programs.

• Coordinate with Logistics, Engineering, and business management staff to develop an integrated program measurement baseline to manage cost, schedule and technical performance of the program.

• 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. Also skilled in using Milestones Pro software in conjunction with project scheduling software.

• Perform thorough project analysis through metrics reviews and predictive analysis to enhance cost, schedule and technical performance.

• Perform schedule risk analyses and work with the managers to resolve risky schedules, critical path issues and network logic conflicts.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of professional related experience.

• Master's degree with 3 years of professional related experience.

• PhD degree with 1 year of professional related experience.

• Will consider 9 years of applied scheduler experience in lieu of degree requirement.

• 3 years of project scheduling experience using Microsoft Project, Oracle P6, Deltek Open Plan or other related scheduling tool.

• Experience using MS Office Suite, specifically Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

• Your ability to obtain and/or transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Secret clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company.

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