Project Planner

Are you a Project Planner who is looking to join one of the top companies within the Aerospace and Defense Industry?

Are you looking to further your career and grow?

Do you have experience in planning/scheduling?

If you answered yes to those three questions, then apply today!

Acara Solutions is seeking highly qualified candidates to work Hybrid with our client in Littleton, CO. Interested?

Here's what you'd do:

• Looking for an experienced Program Planner to join our mission supporting our Commercial Civil Space (CCS) line of business.
• Partner 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 needed 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 program planning integrator.
• Ensures vertical and horizontal integration, and cost/schedule integration between all schedules and other program artifacts.
• Devices modelling 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.

Here's what you'll get:

• Pay rate: $60.00/hour.
• Hours: 4/10-1st Shift
• Length: Temp (12 Months)

Sound like a good fit?

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About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier provider of recruiting and workforce solutions, and we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of needs in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to them, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

• High School Diploma or GED
• Minimum of 8 years experience in planning/scheduling
• Minimum of 8 years experience in Earned Value Management
• Must have Past Lockheed Martin Space Experience

• Experience with Microsoft Project Server, Open Plan, Acumen, and One Pager Pro
• Ability to perform critical path and risk analyses
• Ability to communicate and work effectively across multiple disciplines
• Thrives in fast-paced environments and demonstrates a willingness to adjust to changing priorities
• Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills
• Understanding of the end-to-end lifecycle of a spacecraft/satellite program
• Understanding of the Program Performance Management Process
• Demonstrated competency in integrating cost/schedule
• Prior team lead experience
• Ability to work independently as well as part of an integrated team
• Strong sense of follow-up and closure with attention to detail
• Self-starter able to operate with minimal guidance
• Desire and willingness to support dynamic proposal activities
• Strong influencing and relationship management skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills to identify and resolve challenges arising in dynamic situations
• Makes sound decisions quickly and efficiently, even with limited information or under time constraints.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
• Under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), all employees assigned to this client must provide documentation verifying their status as a 'U.S. Person,' as defined in ITAR clause 120.15. A U.S. Person is a protected individual under the anti-discrimination provisions of U.S. immigration laws.