Project Schedule Analyst IV

Amtec Staffing; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Amtec Staffing seeks a senior project scheduler with strong earned value management experience for aerospace programs in Pasadena, CA. You will lead scheduling activities, maintain an integrated master schedule, and produce reports aligning with contractual requirements.

You will interact with project teams, subcontractors, and sponsors, applying MS Project and Milestones Professional skills, while mentoring a robust team and adapting to evolving project needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree with 9+ years of related scheduling experience or advanced degrees with fewer years.
• Strong schedule development, maintenance, and cost/schedule issue flagging experience.
• Experience negotiating requirements with subcontracts.
• Experience on a flight project with implementation phases.
• Proven leadership to mentor and empower teams.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Ability to interface with all program levels and partners.
• Advanced MS Office skills including Excel; familiarity with MS Project.
• Knowledge of Milestones Professional.
• Limited travel as required

Responsibilities

• Serve as partner in the project business team and drive scheduling plans.
• Schedule project elements, lifecycle, production detail, and materiel needs.
• Provide integrated master schedule products and performance analysis.
• Generate reporting and tracking to ensure contractual compliance.
• Analyze current status against plan and baseline; assess trends.
• Support earned value schedule integration and related services.
• Interface with NASA Centers, subcontractors, and sponsors as needed.

Skills

Project scheduling

Earned value management

Microsoft Project Professional

Excel (advanced)

Leadership

Communication skills

Schedule analysis

Negotiation

Data interfacing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or similar

Masters degree in similar discipline

PhD in similar with related experience

Tools

Milestones Professional

Microsoft Project Professional

MS Office Suite

Excel advanced

Data analysis tools

Job description

• Serves as an integral partner in the project business team.
• Works with the Project/Program team to schedule 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:

Experience and knowledge in the following areas:

• Typically requires a Bachelors degree in Business Administration or similar discipline with a minimum of 9 years of related professional hands-on experience in project scheduling; Masters degree in similar discipline with a minimum of 7 years of related experience; or PhD in similar with a minimum of 5 years related experience.
• Strong experience in developing/maintaining schedule plans, identifying and flagging schedule and cost issues, analyzing schedule data, executing earned value performance measurement, and reporting/presenting findings.
• Experience in negotiating requirements and deliverables with subcontracts.
• 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 Excel and Microsoft Project Professional skills.
• Ability and passion to rapidly learn new technical skills.
• Knowledge of Milestones Professional.
• Minimal travel based on business requirements.

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
• Experience coordinating with various NASA centers and industry partners. Able to collect data from other institutions, integrate the data into cost estimates, analyze and communicate results.