Job Description
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
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