Program Planning Manager 2- Dulles VA
Northrop Grumman
- Virginia
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Act as the organizational lead to initiate a collaborative campaign across the equivalent levels of management related to your team – PM, CAM community, technical management, business management
- Advocate for your team and their products and ensure business rhythms support necessary skills and time to produce best products possible with ability to generate excellent metrics and forecast abilities
- Ensure major projects, program schedules and plans are horizontally and vertically integrated across company functional groups including finance, engineering, material, manufacturing, and quality.
- Track plans and schedules, perform risk analysis, identifies and resolves critical path and network logic conflicts.
- Utilize Gantt, PERT, milestone charts, earned value management and other project management techniques to assess progress and identify performance variances to facilitate focus and intervention on critical areas.
- Prepare, develop and coordinate the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) to meet all program objectives.
- Ensure schedule products are compliant with latest Government, Corporate and Sector requirements and cover gaps in process/knowledge within the team organizational structure.
- Implement scheduling best practices as prescribed by industry to include, but not limited to: IPMR DI-MGMT-81861, Earned Value Management System (EVMS), Critical Path Analysis, Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA), Schedule Performance Analytics and Schedule Health Analysis (DCMA 14-Point, DECM metrics).
- Drive change management and ensure adoption and acceptance of change (i.e. analytics, process, innovative efficiencies).
- Manage and develop a team of program schedule analysts and reporting managers; hold performance reviews; mentor and coach team members.
- Conduct/organize new hire schedule analyst training, as well as ongoing/ recurrent training of existing employees as required.
- Support business development efforts including proposal preparation and schedule creation/analysis.
- Manage programs to evaluate and execute multiple priorities against ambitious timelines
- Advise business managers in integrating project schedules with Earned Value Management
- Demonstrate problem solving and decision making requiring excellent communication skills
- Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
- 401k
- Educational Assistance
- Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
- Paid Time Off
- Health & Wellness Resources
- Employee Discounts
- Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of related experience - OR - a Master's degree with 8+ years of related experience. Additional 4 years of experience accepted in lieu of a degree.
- Experience with manufacturing assemblies and process, and/or hardware/software knowledge.
- Proficient in MS Project and MS Office Suite
- Strong audit analysis experience with Integrated Master Schedules (IMS)
- Experience using various Earned Value Management System tools such as Deltek COBRA, SSI Tools, etc.
- High level of skill and experience with performing and interpreting Schedule Risk Assessments (SRA).
- Experience leading a team, either as a lead, program manager, functional manager, or matrix manager.
- Familiarity with the NDIA's Planning and Scheduling Excellence Guide (PASEG)
- Experience in Aerospace and/or Defense programs and familiarity with Integrated Program Management Report (IPMR).Ability to obtain a Top Secret/SCI security clearance. US Citizenship is a prerequisite.
- Current DoD Top Secret security clearance. US Citizenship is a prerequisite.
- Master's degree in Business Administration, Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics Discipline
- PMP, PgMP, PMI-RMP, PMI,SP, PSP certifications
- Experience leading a team, either as a lead, program manager, functional manager, or matrix manager.