Program Planning and Scheduling Analyst

Program Planning And Scheduling Analyst

DPP is seeking a Program Planning and Scheduling Analyst for an opportunity with our client in the Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing industry. Work location: Onsite in Promontory, Utah. Work schedule: 9x80. Duration: 12 months. Terms: W2 contract. Work authorization: US Citizen. Position summary:

The Program Planning and Scheduling Analyst will support our client's Program scheduling department. As a member of the scheduling department you'll get to schedule for NASA's SLS Booster program. This position will serve onsite at Promontory, Utah.

Responsibilities:

• Prepares, develops and coordinates the integrated master plan and integrated master schedule to meet all program objectives.
• Ensures major projects and program schedules and plans are horizontally and vertically integrated across company functional groups including finance, engineering, material, manufacturing, and quality.
• Tracks plans and schedules, performs risk analysis, identifies and resolves critical path and network logic conflicts.
• Utilizes 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.
• Creates visuals that represent the program plan.

Basic qualifications:

• Understand CPM and EVMS and how they interact within a scheduling software.

Preferred:

• 3+ years in Primavera P6 software.

Technical skills:

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUP/INDEX MATCH, macros)
• Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
• Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS)