Production Analyst/Project Scheduler

Description

***Must have an active DOD Top Secret or active DOE Q clearance. Active, meaning the individual granted a clearance is briefed and currently occupies a position for which the clearance is required.***

Leidos has an immediate opening for a Production Analyst/Project Scheduler to support a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Modernization Program within the Office of Stockpile Modernization. This individual will contribute to maintenance of and reporting on the NNSA integrated master schedule (NIMS) and also provide broader project controls support. The individual will support the Federal Program Manager (FPM), as well as liaise with other Defense Programs (DP) offices, the Department of Defense (DOD), and the Laboratories, Plants, and Sites (LPS). The work performed is extensive in scope and requires an experienced individual with demonstrated project controls expertise, the ability to execute work independently while collaborating within a highly functioning team environment, and the capacity to interface with a broad range of federal and military senior staff and leadership. This is a full-time contractor-support position located on-site at the NNSA offices in Albuquerque, NM.

Project Controls compiles and analyzes the deliverables from the LPSs. Prepares monthly, quarterly, bi-annual, annual, and ad-hoc reports to support the program and program operations. Identifies and delivers data products to the Federal Program Office (FPO) and Federal Program Manager (FPM) to support programmatic deliverables. Works with the FPO to review LPS deliverables and provides feedback on data quality and identifies errors for adjudication on subsequent cycles. A key element is developing and maintaining the NIMS for the FPO from individual site project summaries and detailed schedules. This position requires advanced knowledge in the field of nuclear weapons programs and Primavera/P6 expertise.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining project management policies and procedures.
• Coordinating, scheduling, analyzing client summary schedules and detailed schedules.
• Comparing and evaluating possible courses of conduct with respect to scheduling and making scheduling decisions after considering the relevant possibilities.
• Exercising independent judgment to perform as a role model for the team, being self-motivated professional, demonstrating good interpersonal and communications skills, and passing on the working details of the Nuclear Security Enterprise.
• Working as part of the Team to produce regular reports and surge/special products that clearly and accurately represent the status of the Program.
• Work in classified environments to analyze sensitive schedule and program data.
• Team with derivative classifiers to extract appropriate elements for integration into unclassified integrated master schedules and other products.
• Collaborate with technical staff and project leads and managers to make recommendations to key decision makers within the scope of project controls.
• Researches, assembles, and evaluates project information or data and recommends sound, practical solutions to project related issues.
• Assists with customer interactions, including arranging and documenting periodic reviews and tracking integration and analysis of the individual project schedules and presenting status to internal or external customers.
• Assemble and analyze the NIMS.
• Provide schedule health assessments as well as critical path analysis for the components and systems and provide necessary inputs to all program reports.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field with 8+ years relevant experience or a Master's degree in a related field with 6+ years relevant experience
• Demonstrated expert level experience with Primavera P6
• Active DOE security clearance or an active DOD Top Secret clearance
• Staff experience in military, government, or corporate enterprise
• Knowledge of/or experience with project management best practices and principles
• Experience with project controls practices and principles, including work breakdown structure development, duration management, schedule logic and dependencies, critical path analysis, change control, status reporting, and what-if analysis
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite with particular emphasis on word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet applications (MS Word, MS PowerPoint and MS Excel)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated experience in developing briefings for senior and executive management
• Knowledge of project life cycles and the impact of scope, schedule and budget changes on the execution of projects
• Willingness to travel, estimated 10-15%

Desired Qualifications

• MBA or Master's degree in a related field
• PMP certification
• Experience with earned value management (EVM) tools, gathering and reporting project performance data
• Nuclear weapons experience and Interagency experience
• Knowledge of MS SharePoint

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For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

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