Integrated Program Planner - E2

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 We are Lockheed Martin! Join the Skunk Works® Planning Team! Are you ready to invent the future? The Skunk Works® (Lockheed Martin Advanced Development Program) is looking for world class talent in Project Controls to be a part of a team that will carry on our tradition making history in advanced systems development. Be a player in the development of world changing technology. What are we doing at ADP - Skunk Works?   What is Program Planning to Lockheed Martin? Integral to Lockheed Martin's Program Management & Enterprise Performance, it organizes tasks for mission success, scheduling design, development, and sustainability of products. It breaks down products into tasks, sets sequences & durations, ensuring on-time, in-budget, quality outcomes. Aeronautical program planning is an exciting process that combines creativity, science, and technology to create amazing machines that enable humans to explore and travel in the air and beyond!

The candidate is a self-starter and relationship builder supporting an integrated team to ensure successful program execution and performance, including all aspects of a validated Earned Value Management system. This position has shared responsibility for baseline management and control and assisting in variance analysis. Responsibilities include the development and maintenance of schedules. Candidate will integrate and assess schedule impacts of proposed work on existing and future plans. Candidate will develop knowledge of Critical Path Methodology and how to apply it in schedule network development and analysis. Position interacts across functional organizations such as engineering, procurement, contracts, business management, and production. This position will be an active participant in the evaluation of planning products and practices and will be instrumental in the remediation activities upon identification of gaps. Primary Tools Used: Deltek Open Plan Scheduling Tool, Milestones Professional, Microsoft Excel   This position is in Marietta, GA . Click here to Discover Marietta.   Partners with Program & Senior Management to drive cost, schedule, and technical performance by facilitating integration across all functions. Responsible for developing compliant Integrated Program Schedules which accurately validate the flow, budget, and resources required to execute contractual scope and overarching program strategy. Provides the program with time-phased critical path predictive analysis and actionable planning data, and develops recommended solutions to programmatic execution conflicts. Ensures all commitments are tracked, monitored and statused. Prepares/coordinates the development of planning artifacts for solicitation response. Interfaces with program management, senior management and the customer as the programs planning integrator. Ensures vertical and horizontal integration, and cost/schedule integration between all schedules and other program artifacts.Devises modeling and measuring techniques to integrate risks and opportunities with schedule and cost baseline, and to perform schedule risk assessments. Utilizes performance and health metrics analyses to drive actions resulting in improved program performance. Basic Qualifications 
 - Proficient with Microsoft Office applications - Demonstrated critical thinking and problem solving abilities - Experiences with networked schedules - Experiences delivering briefings to team members and project teams - Knowledge of Schedule Performance Management Techniques, e.g. Earned Value Management -Bachelors degree Desired Skills 
 •Degree in Construction Management, Program Management, Business Administration •Experience with networked schedules, integrity checks, and critical path methodology •Experience with Schedule Performance Management Techniques, e.g. Earned Value Management •Demonstrated critical thinking and problem solving abilities •Previous experience with Deltek