Senior Project Analyst (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-09-03

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HTX38: 1717 E Cityline Drive 1717 E Cityline Drive Building C17, Richardson, TX, 75082 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: Secret

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

This onsite Project Analyst (PA) position based in Richardson, Texas will provide technical and program support to Cost Account Managers (CAM) on a variety of tasks.  Interpret and maintain program requirements for project repositories.  Acts as the liaison between Engineering and the Value Stream Office flowing overall program\project status.  Track tasks and requirements to ensure the teams are on target to meet their deadlines.  Serves as the focal for analyzing and reporting Earned Value (EV) data, creating and presenting program metrics. 

What You Will Do

• Review/Analyze Variance reports for data integrity/work with finance to resolve issues

• Analyze engineering drawings and support estimation of labor hours and material costs to build a product 

• Setup Work Package Baselines in our Integrated Status and Assessment Tool (iSAT)

• Develop and maintain Quantifiable Backup Data (QBD) files

• Maintain updates to EV and analyze drivers for performance

• Analyze work packages to determine remaining labor/material ETC

• Analyze staffing demand vs. actuals to identify gaps 

• Monitors and tracks program status, escalating and reporting challenges, shortfall, issues, etc. to leadership and key stakeholders 

• Facilitate and support program CAM review meetings

• Develop task-based schedules for new bids based on discipline estimates 

• Track spend by cost center for engineering 

• Collaborate with work package leads regarding variances in program deliverable reports

• Monitors and tracks program status, escalating and reporting challenges, shortfall, issues, etc. to leadership and key stakeholders.

• Lead stand-up meetings for team to obtain task status

• Identify critical path and near critical path tasks within the program schedule

• Back-up for scrum master/project lead

• Analysis and modeling of site-specific space needs and timelines

• Developing programmatic approaches to addressing communication issues

• Track and manage all Engineering Coordination Memos (ECMs) and closure plan

• Assist and model Current Execution Index (CEI) tracking

• Orchestrate Risk and Opportunity (R&O) at the program level

• Backup staffing focal

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 2 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field

• Experience with Microsoft (Word, PowerPoint, Project, Excel and Power BI) 

• SAP and Jira knowledge and experience 

Qualifications We Prefer

• Understanding of Collins Management System (CMS) 

• Experience with understanding technical projects including schedule and earned value management, risk management, customer interaction, and briefings 

• Experience leading engineering tasks 

• Understanding of Quality and DCMA processes

• Active / Existing Secret or Top Secret Security Clearance Preferred

What We Offer​

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance  ​

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees  ​

• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option  ​

• Tuition reimbursement program ​

• Student Loa