Project Management Specialist 4

This job is with Encode, Inc a fully owned subsidiary of Lancesoft

We are looking for an Integrated Planning & Scheduling Specialist - DC&N CTO to join CTO IP&S team working in Huntington Beach, CA; Long Beach, CA or Seattle, WA.


Position Responsibilities:
• Leads a team of schedulers based on program priorities
• Oversees integration of multiple schedules and manages key handoffs
• Oversees, develops, coordinates, integrates, analyzes, and maintains integrated plans and schedules for highly complex or difficult projects, programs and change driven activities to execute in accordance with project management industry standards
• Directs and provides high level studies/analysis (trend, variance, impact), determines scope, reports, and oversight of planning requests
• Identifies risk and opportunity potential, develops mitigation planning and refines the business case
• Develops and executes the process and strategy for the integration of plans and schedules
• Consults and recommends integrated planning, scheduling, change and baseline management, processes, techniques and tools to management considered to be best practices across the industry
• Recognized as primary project contact to establish key stakeholder requirements and project objectives
• Authorizes commitment of resources by obtaining approvals from stakeholders
• Oversees deployment of approved recommendations at Division, Business Unit, and/or Enterprise levels



Required Skills:
• This position requires an active U.S. Secret (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)
• Ability to obtain Special Program Access
• Experience working with cross-functional teams across different geographic locations & time-zones
• Experience working with program managers to develop & manager project schedule baselines
• Experienced in managing complex integrated schedules, earned value management system (EVMS), using scheduling tools (ex. OPP, MS Project or Milestone Professional)
• Experience with managing and analyzing resource loaded schedules
• Experience integrating complex project schedules



Preferred Skills:
• 10+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Agile / JIRA experience
• Experience with early development programs and proposal scheduling



Education:
Bachelor's degree and typically 10 or more years' related work experience, a Master's degree and typically 8 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.