Principal Program Planning & Controls - Program Planner
Space Coast, FL On-site
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About the role
As part of a hardworking team of specialists and accomplished experts in Program Planning & Controls (PP&C), you will develop and maintain program plans for various spaceflight systems. You will be responsible for leading and overseeing the creation and maintenance the Integrated Master Schedule, as well as the integration of subordinate schedules to develop a comprehensive data set. Coordinating with technical leadership across Blue you will drive the resource loading of our program plans, and analyzer and optimize the schedule to achieve required milestones. Effective baseline change control will be crucial to tracking performance and conducting effective critical path and variance analysis of Blue’s dynamic programs. You will also support the maturing of the PP&C organization by analyzing scheduling procedures and introducing improvements and revised procedures, mentoring, and developing other program planners to achieve our high scheduling standards. You will also be instrumental in driving organizational and cultural utilization of PP&C scheduling artifacts through all levels of the program team. Partnered closely with the Program Cost Analysts, you will also maintain integrated cost and schedule plans that will facilitate program budgeting and cost analysis. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!
What you'll bring
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Project Management, or Engineering
- 8+ years of experience in program scheduling/planning and controls
- Experience with integrated master schedules with resource loading using Primavera (P6), MS Project, or other software
- Experience and comfort with working in ambiguous environments and situations
- Experience establishing new programs and performing complete overhauls/replans of existing programs
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Robust understanding of scheduling best practices and experience implementing and adapting best practices in a variety of business environments
- Demonstrated success mentoring and developing lesser experienced planners and program teams
- Strong computer skills (MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, AI LLM)
- Strong communication skills in technical work environments
- Expert user of Primavera P6 and MS Project
- Experience establishing new program schedules