Project Scheduler

Project Schedule Analyst

The Project Schedule Analyst serves as an integral partner in the project business team and will work with the Project/Program team.

Main Responsibilities:

• Schedule of the project elements, project lifecycle, production detail, materiel, etc.
• Provides program, project or institutional scheduling products including comprehensive integrated master schedule products, schedule assessment and performance analysis.
• Provides reporting and tracking requirements, to ensure project/program or institution is compliant with contractual requirements.
• Analyzes and validates current schedule status to current plan, and historical/baseline schedule products.
• Analyzes efficiency and trends; forecasts impact to project, program, proposal, and/or institutional requirements.
• Responsible for the earned value schedule integration, and other schedule related support and services.

Required Skills:

• Is a subject matter expert with knowledge and experience in one or more of the following areas: Project planning and control principles and standards, including cost estimation, budgeting, and scheduling; performance measurements, including earned value, as required for the planning and implementation of complex projects.
• Strong leadership ability and proficiency in decision making and delegation, communication, time management, problem solving, and strategic leadership.
• Experienced with analysis and reporting for schedule performance, risks impacts and mitigation, and flagging/identifying trending metrices that could impact schedule deliveries.
• Strong experience in developing/maintaining schedule plans, identifying and flagging schedule and cost issues, running what-if scenarios in schedule for mitigation planning, analysis, earned value performance measurement, assessment and reporting, contracts, subcontracts, and procurements.
• Strong Experience on a flight project with emphasis on implementation phases.
• Demonstrated ability to meet constantly evolving project needs and handle contending priorities. Confirmed leadership skills and demonstrated ability to develop, empower, mentor, and maintain a robust team.
• Effective communication skills in verbal, written, and presentation forms.
• Ability to interface effectively with all levels of program/project management, technical organizations, peers, subcontractors, other NASA Centers, and the sponsor.
• Strong user of Microsoft Office (Word and PowerPoint) with advanced to expert Excel and Microsoft Project Pro skills.
• Ability and passion to rapidly learn new technical skills.
• Experienced user of Microsoft Project, Milestones Pro, WBS Schedule Pro, STATs Health Check (or similar tool).
• Able to identify and communicate anomalies in the schedule data, analyze horizontal logic and critical path traceability between subsystem schedule plans, recommend and implement mitigated schedule plans.
• Able to work closely with the Project Resource Analyst (PRA) team in implementation and verification of the complete cost and schedule integration plan.

Desired Skills:

• Demonstrated experience in leading the implementation of project resource planning and control activities and earned value management (EVM) on a complex technical project.
• Experience in a project team environment with project reporting, coordinated cost/schedule planning, EVM, and various performance measurement techniques.
• Experience with cost-schedule baseline change control processes.
• Experience in conducting or participating in Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBRs).
• Experience in all phases of the flight project life cycle.
• Experience supporting audits and Integrated Baseline Reviews and performing independent assessments.
• Proficient with EMPOWER (Encore Analytics), Acumen Fuse, Power BI.
• Familiar with IPMR and IPMDAR Implementation Requirements