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L3Harris Technologies · 1 week ago

Lead Program Scheduler

Palm Bay, FL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

7+ years exp

L3Harris Technologies is a leader in the defense industry, focusing on delivering technology solutions that support national security. The Lead Program Scheduler will coordinate surge support for Tier One Programs, manage complex program schedules, and ensure integration across various functional groups within the company.

CommercialInformation TechnologyNational Security

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Responsible for providing guidance, coaching and training to planning/scheduling employees

Develop integrated master schedules using IMP, SOW and WBS

Create and track plans and schedules, performs risk analysis, identifies and resolves critical path and network logic conflicts

Manage complex projects or processes with general oversight

Typically, responsible for providing guidance, coaching and training to other employees

Communicate within and outside of own function to gain cooperation on operational processes, practices, and procedures

Make/recommend substantial improvements to systems and processes

Contribute to achievement of departmental goals and operating plans with direct impact on the departmental results

Perform regular analysis of program schedules to evaluate program and enterprise wide resource needs through the integration of all program schedules including metrics on schedule status, critical path analysis, schedule variance analysis, network logic validation, and program baseline maintenance including support of Earned Value Management performance metrics

Utilize 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

Prepare, develop, and coordinate integrated master plan and integrated master schedule (IMP/IMS) using MS Project, Excel and PowerPoint

Ensure projects and program schedules and plans are integrated across company functional groups including finance, engineering, material, manufacturing, and quality

Ensure compliance with internal program procedures and project control system guidelines

Work consists of making significant improvements of processes, systems, solutions, or products to enhance performance of job area

Provide measurable input of new products, processes or standards in operational plans that will have some impact on the achievement of overall functional results

Communicate within and outside of own function or business area and has responsibility for communicating with parties external to the organization (e.g., customers, vendors, etc.) when necessary

Explain, interpret, and gain cooperation on policies, procedures and practices

Contribute to the development of goals for the department and planning efforts (budgets, operational plans, etc.)

Establish short-term operational plans with measurable contribution to function or business area results

Conduct extensive investigation to understand root cause of problems. Problems span a wide range of difficult and unique issues across the function and/or business area

Develop new concepts or standards

Attend and lead scheduling status reviews and conduct briefings with senior leaders which requires ability to communicate matters of importance to the function or business area

Work to influence others to accept individual or team’s views or practices and changes to concepts, practices, and approaches

Participate in schedule training, engineering and program excellence organization

Work to achieve operational targets within job area with some impact on department results

Qualification

Earned Value ManagementIntegrated Master ScheduleCritical Path AnalysisSchedule Risk AnalysisMS ProjectProject ManagementCommunicationProblem SolvingAttention to DetailTeam Leadership

Required

Must Have an Active Top Secret/SCI Clearance to start

Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 9 years of prior relevant experience; Or, Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience; Or, in lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience

Preferred

Working knowledge of Planning & Scheduling Excellence Guide (PASEG), Version 4.0, EVMS Standard (EIA 748-D), Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD), and Integrated Program Management Report (IPMR) strongly desired

Capability to perform Critical Path Analysis, Schedule Risk Analysis, and Schedule Metric Analysis - such as BEI, CPLI, SPI, etc

Experience with subcontractor schedule integration

Senior professional with strong knowledge of job area and in-depth knowledge of project management

Experience working DoD projects in a Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFAR) environment

Experience leading planning & scheduling efforts for large, high visibility Government projects

Experience creating and/or maintaining an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and any Supporting Schedules on assigned projects/programs; creating and presenting project-level reports, presentations and deliverables that reflect risk and status to program management and senior management relating to the IMS is required

Monte Carlos Risk Analysis (Schedule Risk Analysis)

Working knowledge of Space and Airborne Systems programs

Experience with Project Server

Structured Solutions - SSI tools management

Program Management and Coordination experience, SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle) process

Critical thinking and problem solving, attention to detail and quality of product deliverables

EVMS – Earned Value Management Systems